Hi Phil,
Thanks for your great work on the server. I fully agree
with all your concerns. Not to say that a dynamic site
is an absolute no go in general, but only if properly
justified, which - for Harbour - it is simply not.
I'd suggest to "delegate" the website task to someone
who is willing and able to actually start shuffling some
bits around on the site (Renato's proposals are very nice
candidates), because all I see is a lot of words, but
there is little to none change, while the site layout
is in its worst shape ever, lagging behind the 'product'
itself.
Brgds,
Viktor
On 2008.09.12., at 3:04, Phil Barnett wrote:
On Thursday 11 September 2008 03:47:23 am Massimo Belgrano wrote:
Your aproach seem very old
It's very secure. There are huge numbers of static web sites on the
internet
for this very reason. Slashdot.net. Woot.com. NewYorkTimes.com All
static.
Thousands of big sites are static.
We can host out of your website the cms
Aparrently you have a problem understanding that a CMS is NOT going
to be
hosted out of my server and that we have already made the decision
to use
static html. If you don't want to follow the decisions we are making
here
then we will find someone else to do the work.
Since this project was started, I have spent approximately $12,000
dollars to
keep that server running. (about $1,500 a year plus hardware) Of
course, not
only for Harbour, but it's no small investment and I'm not going to
risk it
because you want something easy. I have many other sites on the
server. Most
of them are donated and the owners of the site pay me nothing for
them, like
Harbour.
I have seen this server become compromised in the past, the last
time for
Italian Porn. It was a Mambo CMS site, a CopperMine photo gallery
and a
geekweb site that led to the last three compromises. A site with
static pages
has never had a single problem.
Every time this happens I lose a week or two rebuilding the server and
restoring over 100 sites and over 2000 mailboxes to operational
status. I
will do that again when I have to, but I'm not looking forward to it
and I
work hard at keeping it running smooth so I don't have to do that
kind of
work and wasted time.
But it's not just about my server. It's about our reputation. Every
day, every
server on the internet is attacked for vulnerability to the extent of
thousands of attempts at breaking in each day. If you put vulnerable
software
on the internet eventually someone will take advantage of it. And
CMS systems
have been the very worst offenders offering dozens of easy
vulnerabilities
every year.
Static web pages have none of these problems and the server spends
about
1/100th of the processing and disk space resources to serve web pages.
Static web pages come up very fast and are very secure against
attack and
cracking attempts.
Please let me know now if you are going to work with us in this way
so I can
advertise for a replacment if necessary.
Phil
Harbour Project Manager
--
"Ninety percent of politicians give the other 10 percent a bad
name." -- Henry
Kissinger
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