[mdlug] Web hosting, tools and training

Wed Apr 6 01:02:05 EDT 2016

I have a question for the group on websites also.  I am developing a new 
Joomla website with web host http://www.ipage.com/ipage/index.html which 
is a dirt cheap Web Hosting service that I have been pleased with.  I 
purchased 3 years of web hosting for about $60.  They also gave me the 
domain: http://thatcybersecurityguy.ipage.com with the package.  They 
have 24/7 phone and chat support who have proven to be OK.  You get what 
you pay for so some of their control panel tools need updates and such 
but if you can use FTP you don't need them.  My iPage website has never 
been down during the many hours I have been working on it and visiting 
my UNDER CONSTRUCTION iPage website.

I decided to go with Joomla after a few of the horror stories detailed 
below. *Where is the best place that I can get training on developing a 
Joomla website with the Helix template?**
*
I thought about using Lynda but I found their Joomla videos are 
limited.  I have been all over YouTube and most of their videos are on 
Joomla 2.5 which was/is vastly different than Joomla 3.5 which just came 
out.  I certainly don't know of any college that teaches a class on 
Joomla website development.  (See: https://www.joomla.org, 
https://www.joomshaper.com/helix)

BTW:  My new web host for http://thatcybersecurityguy.com is Aabaco 
after Yahoo spun off their web hosting business so I know the feeling of 
being stuck with a web host that is difficult.  They don't have chat 
support and the India company employees don't speak very good English.  
I use their proprietary Sitebuilder tool to maintain my website which is 
old an primitive but very easy and intuitive to use.  My hands were tied 
from my horror stories below.

__________________________________________________________________

I too have website horror stories to tell.  A few of my life experiences 
to help everyone in the group.  In the early stages of writing my cyber 
security book, "The Internet is Infected!" I paid someone to put up a 
website for me.  He took a $1,200 in advance, registered my domain in 
his name, and put up one page as my home page.  He did pay the Yahoo 
hosting fees which are the highest around for a few years costing about 
$400 and the domain registration. That is all I got for my $1,200.  
After a few years I told him I wanted to take over development of my 
website.  A few legal things I learned (in addition to being sued for 
other things) along the way:

 1. If you pay someone to do your website it is NOT legally your website.
 2. If that someone develops code and databases to support your website
    they own rights to that and you cannot hire someone else, or work on
    that yourself.
 3. If that someone registers your domain in support of your website
    they legally own your domain, not you.

This guy saw my business going nowhere and knew I was broke so he let me 
pay $400 to get the domain into my name and gave me rights to work on my 
website, thus I was able to take back ownership of my one page website 
that I paid him to develop.  He uses the Sitebuilder tool to put up my 
website so I was stuck using it also.

I wanted to get away from Yahoo so after I published my book last 
January so I put up a test WordPress website at iPage.  It was quickly 
hacked and had to be taken down.  After talking to some cyber security 
experts (successful unlike me) in Florida they explained Wordpress was 
developed for blogs not websites and was easily hacked as a result.  
Their advice was DON'T USE WORDPRESS FOR A WEBSITE.

I was busy putting together seminars for Penguicon last year which were 
canceled, went to school working on IT certifications, other life 
events, so I have not had much time to work on a NEW website until now.  
I am desperate to get my new website up and running to get away from 
Aabaco but Joomla is not intuitive and has proven difficult to learn... 
perhaps I'm getting old!

Kirk Ellis
President and CEO, http://thatcybersecurityguy.com

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