Amiga and personal Web site hosting..

[Wayne]

Hi guys,

As you know from the recent server swap and my own blog post (what? you all don't worship my blog?! How 1998 of you!), we are now operating under a large reseller account.

As of right now, we have a lot of room to breathe for the future, but the whole experience has made me very curious about the concept of providing Web hosting to the Amiga community.

I know there are a lot of you out there who are interested in running your own site, either for your own blog, or whatever (like Amigawiki.com does).

I have space, you want space.  How cool would it be to have an Amiga-oriented web host out there?

All I know is that *if* I do something like that, it would be small, low cost style hosting unless you needed more.

Anyone interested?

Wayne

[Wayne]

Slightly off topic, but how about sticking a twitter feed on to the site for the Amiga.org followers?  Is that even possible?  Would be good to have little conversations going in almost real time?

A twitter feed of what?  Amiga.org's already on twitter at twitter.com/amiganews

[Wayne]

Potential solution: Rebrand AmigaWiki.com (or set up a new site entirely like amigasites.com) that lets any Amigan create their own microsite.  It'll include some sort of basic CMS (or wiki-style markup) so there's no technical knowledge required, and users can customise the look of their site using CSS etc.  Sites will all have simple domains of the form [amigawikiorwhatever.com]/[sitename] which we guarantee will stay static.

The problem is, we already offer user blogs which are essentially usable for the exact same thing.  Setting up a web-based "site creator engine" wouldn't be a simple task, and I'm not really aware of any currently available OTS software (like vBulletin) that does such a thing.

Besides, people around here seem to be much more about taking than giving anyway, so the idea that they'd actually want to put up a site would be... well let's just say the odds are slim.

Wayne

[Wayne]

To continue, I still have space available, but no one has taken me up on it in all this time, so I'm guessing no one really needs such a service.

It's a good idea in principle though.

Wayne

[Wayne]

I'm using Webhostgiant and they provide me with more space than I need for a cheap price.  I had Godaddy but they were so f****** slow that it was painful for any users I might have.

I'm not quite clear as to the point you're trying to make.

Wayne