Website Sustainability

Previously in this blog I looked at Dropbox as a tool for web-hosting . I recently came across this link  How To Host a Simple Website Using Dropbox : a few tools to take this further. Personally, I haven't played with them so I am not sure how good they are; but the posting is interesting -  http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-host-a-dropbox-website/ If you do try them out please let me know if they are any good. Related Dropbox (see: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/alternative-hosting-approach-1-dropbox.html )  Google Sites (see: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/google-sites-for-sustainability-week-3.html  ) Hosting options: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/hosting-how-to-get-it-out-there-for.html Free tools: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-best-free-tools-for-website.html Amazon S3 (see: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/thoughts-about-using-ama...

By Ahsan Anderson, (anderson.ahsan@gmail.com)  Nuffield Bursary Student . All views are Ahsan Anderson not necessarily the views of the blog editor. It’s easy to be lured in by a website offering you unbeatable deals on their web packages with ‘Cheap Hosting’, a myth in my eyes. What is hosting? Before you commit to going with said website, you should consider what is actually meant by hosting and understand that maybe, it could turn out to be A LOT cheaper than you think. Consider what your site is; A blog, multimedia, press, social, a band page. Whatever the site is, in conjunction to an appropriate web builder (such as Weebly) you could get away with not having to pay a penny! How you ask? Simple! 1)   DIY Hosting can keep everything in the house/office. Instead of forking out ‘£x’ per month, why not look at spending the same/equivalent on buying a mini server? Or if you have an old laptop or Desktop that’s gathering dust you can make use of...

By Ahsan Anderson, (anderson.ahsan@gmail.com)  Nuffield Bursary Student . All views are Ahsan Anderson not necessarily the views of the blog editor. I’ve created a few websites in the past, varying from those for business use or those to advertise bands in local areas, but with my line of work they’ve all had the same thing in common, and that’s money. When I’ve created them I have used a variety of tools; web builders for example, and one very key thing to these is that they all cost money for hosting. There are a few hurdles you can’t overcome, for example, there is no escaping the cost you will have to pay to have your domain name bought, but when building your website, sometimes there is no need to have to pay for the tools, as I will explain now. Whether you are willing to pay for the hosting or you wish to host yourself (or use free sites like 000hosting.com) this list will narrow down the choice of good modern builders that you can use. I was looking for...

Stage 1 Rescue the site. Capture a copy of the site. Software selected for this job is the free software WinHTTrack Website Copier ( http://www.httrack.com/ ). It is easy to install and use. Keep back-up copies in several places just in case. For more details click here . Temporary hosting: dropbox is a good choice. You can transfer the static HTML content straight in a public folder. For more details  click here  on moving a site to dropbox and for some of the issue click here . Add Google Analytics Select a free hosting site.  Option 1: A Google Sites solution was investigate Google Sites (www.google.com/sites/overview.html) has been selected as the alternative platform for several reasons:  It is a freely available resource, allowing this approach to be replicated with other at risk resources. It allows changes for individual pages or the entire site remotely by subscription  It integrates with a number of Google-based tools (such a...