Site Maintenance and security updates discussion

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@Wayne,

Well, if you remember, I did bother you with some PM's with different CMS and Forum software.. IIRC Invision was/is available as a module for Xoops, but it could also be another CMS. (Not saying you didn't reply, you did ;-))

At work we dropped the idea of using a CMS, as we only "need" a forum, we decided to get a forum based on SQL, not MySql, and also dropping PHP (.net / ASP). Not sure about the name of the (free) package we are using now, but is it a consideration to drop MySQL ? Sure, nothing wrong with MySQL.


Also to consider, Xoops is free, MySQL is free. SQL and Invision are not.

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Questions:
1) How large is the database?
2) Is is possible to "export" in a reduced/changed format?
3) Would it be possible to allow access to it in "archived" format?


Hm.. Should be doable I guess. Xoops can run different Forum modules, tho AFAIK not the same module more then 1.

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I would have taken this site as we know it and moved it to "classicamiga.org" which I owned a couple of years ago then built a new, better-focused Amiga.org from scratch. Alas, since I let it go, someone else has registered it.

Hm.. How about grandpa.amiga.org ?  :-) (Or better grandma.amiga.org ?)

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I don't know where this confusion comes from, but there is no interest at all in replacing the FORUM software in Xoops. Only Xoops itself.

Hm. So if you had a CMS that has a newbb (xoops forum) compatible you'd be happy ?

The confusion comes from the fact that a CMS isn't a Forum, but a forum is what most people know and understand and don't realize what a CMS is.

(For comparison www.amiga.org "vs" www.spookychick.com, the first uses a CMS to hold a forum, the later, it seems, is "just a forum")

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Unfortunately classicamiga.org is already taken.


I'll admit I'm not entirely at home with domain names, but if you own ***.amiga.org, then anything before .amiga.org is yours as well ? (Notice the first ".")