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[jim kraai]

How's WP-on-Dream-Host speed?

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:01 PM, kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hosted WP isn't too bad as they usually apply the updates for you. I'm
> using Dream Host and I've also heard good things about Blue Host.
> On Aug 24, 2015 10:53 AM, "jim kraai" <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Looking for your suggestions and experience ...
> >
> > I know it's come up before, but am hoping some of the answers have
> changed
> > over time.
> >
> > I'm in a couple of non-technical nonprofits that don't really want to
> > budget any $ on anything that's not 1960s level tech.  There's good
> > pressure from within to update that.
> >
> > They each need a web site, member/mailing list management, and more
> modern
> > features.  I don't know what more modern features are or should be--maybe
> > self-management of annual dues, event management, forums, publish photo
> > galleries or link to external photo gallery site.  I'm keeping the
> > 'required features' list fluid as I'll go with whatever a suite offers.
> A
> > member forum would be nice.  Per-member blogs would be OK, but I'd prefer
> > to link to something external for that.
> >
> > Each club has 50 < members < 100, so that puts us out of the free range
> of
> > most online places.
> >
> > Low/mid level technical skill in maintenance is important.  I'll host at
> my
> > expense for life, but I don't wish to be web master for life on the
> > day-to-day content and member management fiddling, if you get my drift.
> >
> > Things that are off the table are:
> > - Yahoo Groups--rotting from within
> > - G+:  cost and lack of features
> > - Facebook:  guessing it'll cost plenty soon and lack of features
> >
> > It's my impression that:
> > - Drupal is a resource hog
> > - Joomla is a resource hog and has been hacked every way imaginable
> > - WP is less of a hog, but suffers continuous popularity-hacking
> >
> > I don't quite understand Google for Nonprofits, it seems like little more
> > than a self-promotion tool--a way to put ads out there.
> >
> > There are things that look almost nice like:
> > - http://www.memberplanet.com/nonprofit.aspx
> > - http://www.clubmaster.org/
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