[GRLUG] Cloud VMs, Hosting, & CMSs [Was: NOT LINUX - broadband]

[Michael Mol]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:28 PM, John J. Foerch<jjfoerch at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 12:10:46PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>> A system that renders to static files after a post, and where those
>> static files are all most users ever see, already takes some of the
>> biggest attack vectors and makes the window small.  A system
>> consisting <em>entirely</em> of static files on the server would be
>> nice, but that puts the onus on the post authors to create them before
>> uploading them, and I don't see how it would support a comment system
>> without pulling from a comment server app. (Though the idea of
>> separating a page and its attached comments is something I've pondered
>> for a year or two...)
>
>
> I made one website that is entirely static on the server.  This allows the
> customer to have *really cheap* web hosting.  Basically, I installed a web
> server on the person's computer, along with the CMS and website.  Then I
> wrote a program that fetches the website from the local server, and
> transforms all the hyperlinks to turn it into all static html.  It's not
> the most elegant setup, but it does the trick.

Not to be pejorative, but that reminds me of how FrontPage used to
work, and how DreamWeaver works today.  Honestly, I think it's rather
clever.

I'd still like the ability to host comments and the like, but still.  Hm..


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