[mdlug] CMS opinions

[Rich Elswick]

I am using WiredHub for my hosting... not happy with the tech support, but
it works and price is okay.

They have cPanel and it has Fantastico, which allows you to setup Joomla
pretty much instantly.  Very nice to have.

I am also using Wordpress, which isn't really a CMS per se, but it does some
stuff well.

I have yet to use Joomla, but I do like the look and feel of it.

I am also using Drupal on another site, but I don't set it up or use it
much.

As a comparison, I recently read that Drupal is very powerful, but also
requires you to understand the development / programming side of things to
get stuff to work (as in plugins / components) and/or customize stuff.
Joomla is easier, but also more restricted on what you can add to it if you
need to create something custom.  So I have read.

If you decide to go with WiredHub, I could give you an affiliate link... :)

Rich Elswick




On Jan 26, 2008 6:44 PM, Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 26, 2008 1:13 PM, Michael <newmaniese at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would avoid GoDaddy at any cost. It's the wal-mart of server
> companies. If
> > anything was to go wrong with your server trying to get someone on the
> phone
> > who is actually in the server room is a pain.
>
> Thanks for the warning.  Our previous host was CIHost.  While we
> didn't have too many problems we did have some down time and their
> customer service people are not great.  Tech support was reasonably
> good but we did have some nagging problems after a drive crash and
> data recovery with some settings not correct on the rebuild.  There
> were some quality problems with long pop/smtp response times, missing
> symlinks on the web server, and broken webmail.  I've read a lot of
> bad opinions of CIHost lately so maybe we were just lucky.  The site
> we had wasn't all that important since mostly it was obsolete product
> info.  I'm not expecting a lot of traffic to the new site so downtime
> isn't that critical but I am going to be doing automated backups
> anyways.
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