Tony Firshman wrote, On 8/02/09 20:40:
Geoff Wicks wrote, On 8/02/09 20:03:
The Just Words! website is due to close in a weeks time.
The site host, Lycos, is cutting out all unprofitable activities, and
although they promised site hosting would remain until at least the
end of March they have now brought the closure forward to 15th February.
I have been investigating alternative hosts with the intention of
making the site a little more professional and until this weekend was
intending to relaunch the site as soon as possible. I am now having
serious second thoughts and may keep the site permanently closed.
Rewriting the site for a new host will be a time consuming task given
the numerous links that have to be changed and I have to consider
whether the usage of the site - 9 people per week - justifies this
time investment.
QL activities take up much of my time that could be devoted to other
things. In particular I have a number of family history projects that
are on permanent hold. I have still not kept a promise to a niece
that I made 3 years ago.
It is very tempting to abandon the QL to be able to spend more time
on family history. The last time I wrote anything for one of the
family history magazines I was paid generously for my work. The
article produced a large number of reactions including one from a
distant relative I had never heard of before and who had masses of
family photos. In return she got a mass of detail from me that
peviously she had known nothing about. The QL prevents from doing
more work like this.
If you want something from the Just Words! website, download it in
the next 7 days,
You would be very welcome to host it on my server - for free.
Pity you have not used relative links though.
It should be a simple job to run a script to change the links. If you
have say 'http://oldisp/your_directory/<local_link>' then removal of
the absolute link is dead easy. I can do that for you. All links
would be from the root of the site, but that is not a problem.
I did it recently for my school old boys soc, and had no problems.
I can also offer most script languages, including php with admin via
phpadmin web interface.
Best to buy a domain - justwords.org.uk is available and costs about
£3 a year. You could then use that domain also as an email address.
DNS can then point to the *real* site transparently.
Oh yes - and if you got this way, use 123-reg.co.uk. They are one of
the cheapest, and I know how to get around their DNS quirks, and also
give you http://justwords.org.uk - ie works without the www.
Tony
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