[TriLUG] OT: LAMP web hosting and development/coding services

[Shane O.]

Strongly recommend the Linux-friendly folks at Dash Systems...

Shane O.

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:56 AM, David M. <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi gang.  I was curious to discover what the lastest *recommended* options
> might be for hosted web and coding services?  We've been hosting and
> coding our own website for many years (me) but I have been asked to check
> options.  If I don't find something good, it will be handed over to a place
> which I *know* does terrible coding.  Our site is http://www.cgirb.com and
> is your basic LAMP setup.  I coded it using Dreamweaver so I took advantage
> of its templating and library files for management.  The current site just
> needs updates for the moment, we are not looking for a brand new build at
> this time, but that's a future possibility.
>
> Dreamweaver or not, any recommendations for good development groups?  I
> believe the site is less than 80 pages, has a great search feature and a
> few
> fillable forms with server side PHP validation on them.  We have the
> resources to host, so hosting is the optional part, but they want to take
> the coding off my plate.  I've got bigger fish to fry such as
> NetApp/VMware/Cisco core architecture and major OS and application
> migrations to accomplish this year.  We are hopefully opening a jr. admin
> position in the very near future that could take this role from me, but no
> guarantee.
>
> The site is darn near perfect XHTML 1.0 Transitional right now (because I'm
> awesome and pay attention to detail) with the W3C validator and I would
> hope
> any hired coding service can deliver the same.  Also, I've coded the site
> to
> need 1 and only 1 CSS meaning there is no need for different freaking CSS
> for each freakin browser.  You aren't worth your salt as a coder if you
> require such things in my personal opinion.  (I don't count the print.css
> since that's just a show/hide div thing for printing.)  The only browser
> detection on the site currently is in the Flash plugin on the home page.  I
> originally could not convince the powers that be that we do not need Flash.
> Shortly I expect this to change to just javascript rotating images and
> the Flash removed, hopefully yay!
>
> questions/comments/flames/recommendations??
>
> thanks,
> David McDowell
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