I use content management software (or system) (CMS) to create almost all of my web publications. One of them is called Joomla!. Late last year the organization stopped supporting the version I used to build two of my major (high content) websites. For security, I won’t mention which. They could run for years but there was not going to be any security updates or improvements made on the older version. All the CMS programs I use...
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Pruning My Garden
I am referring to my garden of websites. I have planted quite a few through the years and some of them were not growing. They just took up valuable space in my little plot of the Internet. Now it’s time to cut out the dead wood and allow space (and my time) to helping the good plants grow. An old weed was one was my BBS websites TEDEX and renamed POSTEX. All it was doing was attracting flies to its...
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I just put a new website in the AWS (Amazon Web Service) cloud. This one is the KautzCraft site. My shared server ISP (Ixwebhosting.com) has been causing me frustration by blocking my IP address 18 plus hours while I was accessing my web site files because I was doing too much backing up of those files via FTP. I understand the issues with managing a fairly overloaded shared server with dozens of other user sites....
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I still maintain a few static HTML web site for some commercial customers. They are simple to maintain, good for “look and read” web pages. They also run the quickest as nothing is built “on the fly” like a Content Management Systems (CMS) web site. All my personal websites are now running in CMS and are what is called “dynamic” web sites. They all require the use of a database server as well as the...
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