[Ipg-smz] We need an alternative to our existing lists

[David Gewirtz]

Well, we could self-host a WordPress site with membership and forum
software. The entire solution can be built out that way. The only downside
is a cost, monthly for good hosting and yearly for some commercial plugins
to lock things down.

The one gotcha on the site I built was that when we moved it to a new host,
some of the commercial plugins wouldn't re-register. At the time I set it
up, the cost for them wasn't too high, but they ballooned to a total of
over $500, which was too rich for me this year, so I just moved the site
and we're running old, somewhat out of date plugins.

Also, I can't really volunteer myself to do the whole job. Post heart
surgery, I'm trying to tone down how much work I shoulder. But I'm happy to
advise.

--David


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On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 1:28 PM Tom Henderson via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> I will also contribute shekels.
>
> Some alternatives include group.io (am on four ex-yahoo/refugee lists
> there)
>
> Cheap hosting as in namecheap/hostgator/etc that costs about $200 yr
> that uses php-ish bbs-ish (even 2FA/MFA authenticated) hosting (meaning
> NON-email)
>
> Or migrate totally to slack, which visually is tough for what we do as a
> mailing list.
>
> We're geeks here. Time to crack some knuckles. Not so long ago, David
> Gewirtz pushed through the netpress.org re-do pretty successfully.
> Perhaps one of us can help you migrate the mailman version to something
> modern. I have MySQL/SQL-of-anything skills, if that's a problem. I
> could be a DBA if it didn't seem to require heavy high-calibre weapons.
>
> Tom
>
>
> On 12/13/19 3:13 PM, Daniel Dern via Ipg-smz wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Dec 2019, Daniel Dern via Ipg-smz wrote:
> >> The least-cost account is $5.95/month, so under $10 including the
> >> SIM, and
> >> (I just called and asked) you get up to five mailing lists for that
> >> price.
> >> (This account could probably also handle an IPG site, either as HTML
> >> or WordPress, even.)
> >
> > So that's like $100/year. I wouldn't be surprised if Pair could be
> > talked into comp'ing the account, even; I'd be happy to ask 'em.
> >
> > DPD
> >
> >
> >
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