What's tonight all about?

You will be guided through discussions tonight covering:

• What things you need to consider about your site when picking a hosting provider
• What hosting providers the group reckons are great or rubbish
• What parts of your site need maintaining
• Handy knowledge and tips to shortcut the pain of maintaining your site

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You are all tonight's speakers!

Ground rules

• No such thing as a silly question!
• Listen to understand, not to reply
• Respect each other’s opinion and work - constructive criticism, no mockery
• Keep your points short, you can always pick up interesting convo in the break or outside of the meet-up
• Don’t dominate the chat, make sure everyone can speak
• Get up and move around if you feel like it - there’s a bar, there’s loos etc

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Let's get into groups

Decide what type suits you best:

 

• Type A - Shared hosting
  - little experience, only done one site for example

 

• Type B - Shared hosting
  - experienced, hosts a few sites eg for commercial needs

 

• Type C - Self hosting
  - bit of an expert

 

 

 

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Self-organise!

Get into groups of no more than 5 with others of the same type

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Let's start the chit-chat shall we?

- We'll start with hosting

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What do different sites need from hosting?

Think of a site you've built and explain the hosting criteria you considered:

• What is the site and why do people visit?
• Do lots of people visit it?
• What is the content like - are there lots of media files, eg images and video?
• Do you have lots of pages?
• Where are your site visitors located? Locally, UK, international etc
• Do you pull in content from other sites?

 

Please don't talk about specific hosts or ways of hosting yet - the idea is to discuss the kind of things that matter eg the criteria you look for.

 

Nominate a scribe to write down the key points for your group?

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Let's talk about methods

Purchased hosting

(types A and B)

 

• What hosting providers are out there

• Who is the host?

• How much does it cost?

• What’s good?

• Any frustrations

Self-hosters

(type C)

 

• What’s your set-up?​
• How much does it cost
• What’s good?
• Any frustrations
• Good resources you can direct people to

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Time for a break

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Ready for some more?

- feel free to mix up your groups

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All about maintenance

Let's keep it nice and easy to get you all going....

 

What are the things you typically end up maintaining on your site?

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The details of maintenance

1. How do you realise that something needs maintaining on your site?

• Do you just log-in and check?

• Do you have an automated way of knowing?

  • Mailing lists

  • Monitoring services

 

2. What tools or processes do you use to do the jobs?

• Maybe plugins or other services?

• Staging site for testing changes?

 

3. What you have learnt from doing it?

• What wouldn’t you do again?

• What woud you definitely do again?

 

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Thanks all!

Don't forget you can carry on the chat in our private Facebook group - find details on the website

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