I think the issue that is of immediate relevance to small-to-medium NGOs (and others) is that it is currently quite difficult to find quality, reasonably priced, Plone hosting services that are approachable for new site administrators who need something less than a dedicated server. This is due to the non-LAMPy nature of Plone/Zope (and is a huge issue for Ruby On Rails, Django, Turbogears, etc., too!).
Out of interest what would small-to-medium NGOs class as a reasonable price for Plone hosting services? As has been said there are a lot of pretty reasonably priced hosting solutions out there already - they might not do much hand holding for plone setup but then we have lists like this and other community lists that can help. Maybe there is a section on plone.org which helps with setup (or should be). I can't believe that it can be that difficult to have a fairly standard procedure for setting up on Ubuntu Dapper linux distribution. There are very good tools for installing & we do quite a lot of Plone/Zope installs on our servers using Ubuntu - perhaps we could put up instructions somewhere. Admittedly this is not as nice as having control panels etc but would be a start. What matters is what people think of as reasonably priced as the prices for dedicated servers and, especially, shared virtual servers can be very reasonable (to me at least). Whether you get proper support at that price is a different matter.... Regards Zahid -- Dr Zahid Malik FRY-IT Limited 503 Enterprise House 1/2 Hatfields London SE1 9PG Tel: 0870 760 7634 Fax: 0709 200 0450 Web: http://www.fry-it.com _______________________________________________ NGO mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo
