Hi Richard, > You use Wordpress.
After exploring Wordpress a couple of years ago I decided not use Wordpress. I do not use Wordpress. > I use Drupal. Someone else uses Joomla. Then there's the vast range of > other things people can add to their account. Yes, many people use different tools as we all do. > Web hosting is a very difficult business, which is why we've seen so much > consolidation over the years. No one said Web hosting was an easy business, but it needs to be become better. No company should threaten it’s users to do XYZ upgrade or suffer the loss of their accounts. If it is that important, then the company should make the upgrade process very simple or automatic, or not offer that particular piece of software if it is so vulnerable that it threatens the security of the entire system. I objected to the fact that Run-Rev hyped Wordpress to it’s On-Rev users, and after encouraging them to snap it up, then later slapped them. If you don’t monitor Wordpress closely to be sure it is always up to date, then you lose your account! (That’s just not a good way to conduct business, and I’m glad that I personally didn’t fall into that trap.) When On-Rev was first introduced, the impression given about the service to users was that it was indeed going to be a highly managed service. That has not turned out to be the case clearly as you and Simon have pointed out. (I think a bunch of people may have been disappointed to learn the truth of that matter as it has played out over the years.) The result for me as a user of On-Rev is that I only use it for small websites that I don’t have a large investment of money, time or energy in. It has proven to be an undependable platform for me. Now I run all of my own important servers, which are dependable. I upgrade them, and keep them secure at all times. Thanks for the lively discussion! Cheers, Rick > On Dec 6, 2017, at 2:32 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > You use Wordpress. I use Drupal. Someone else uses Joomla. Then there's > the vast range of other things people can add to their account. > > Where does a hosting company draw the line with what they can afford to > directly support by managing what goes on inside of 200 accounts per machine? > > Or do they take the safest option and disallow everything other than a small > subset of packages they directly manage? > > Web hosting is a very difficult business, which is why we've seen so much > consolidation over the years. > > The most successful companies (the ones that survived the shakeout of the > last decade and are still around to grow) tend to work as Simon described: > unmanaged services require a responsibility from the user, managed services > take care of those things but at a much higher price. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
