Re: [nlug] security / hosting question for webadmins- Joomla / Rackspace

2016-06-27 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
In terms of auto-updaters: dreamhost will do the autoupdates as well for wordpress (and many other tools you can install via their "one-click goodies" manager). however, wp.org is awesome too! In terms of hosting: Are you storing any of that video in your account? The vimeo and youtube, that's goi

Re: [nlug] security / hosting question for webadmins- Joomla / Rackspace

2016-06-27 Thread Chris McQuistion
We use Wordpress.org to host our site. On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Michael L wrote: > May I ask what hosting company that is? Thank you for all the good info, > > M > > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Chris McQuistion < > cmcquist...@watkins.edu> wrote: > >> I'll pipe in an

Re: [nlug] security / hosting question for webadmins- Joomla / Rackspace

2016-06-27 Thread Michael L
May I ask what hosting company that is? Thank you for all the good info, M On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Chris McQuistion wrote: > I'll pipe in and say that I heartily agree that hosting the website on a > server that will be automatically updated whenever security updates are > av

Re: [nlug] security / hosting question for webadmins- Joomla / Rackspace

2016-06-27 Thread Chris McQuistion
I'll pipe in and say that I heartily agree that hosting the website on a server that will be automatically updated whenever security updates are available is a Good Thing. We have a Wordpress-powered site and it is hosted by a company that automatically installs the Wordpress updates for us and te

Re: [nlug] security / hosting question for webadmins- Joomla / Rackspace

2016-06-26 Thread Jim Peterson
We've never had any major issues with 1and1, and they've been very responsive and actually helpful when we have, usually responding within an hour. That was when we were on the shared hosting service, which to my understanding is(was?) fairly uncommon. We had to move to the dedicated hosting si

Re: [nlug] security / hosting question for webadmins- Joomla / Rackspace

2016-06-25 Thread Michael L
and this site has thousands of hours of video currently linked via Amazon S3, Vimeo and Youtube. I was told that if our content is hosted elsewhere, then where the front end is hosted is less critical if it matters at all. On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Jim Peterson wrote: > We use 1and1.co

Re: [nlug] security / hosting question for webadmins- Joomla / Rackspace

2016-06-25 Thread Jim Peterson
We use 1and1.com for our site, and we only pay like $30/month, but I don't know how big/what type of site you are running. Our site is a WordPress site with a customized child theme that I developed. We use a plug-in called Wordfence that is quite robust in its abilities to block intrusion att

[nlug] security / hosting question for webadmins- Joomla / Rackspace

2016-06-25 Thread Michael L
Hello NLUG, Last year our Joomla website was hacked and blacklisted while hosted on hostgator, no help from hostgator in resolving anything as it was a non-managed dedicated server. One NLUGger gave us several suggestions for other hosts; we went with a managed dedicated server at (public cloud ho