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My cousin emailed me yesterday about the company [not the one I work for, but the family one] website, he approached a local IT company [down in Bedfordshire, not in Abz] to see what they could do to improve the current website which is looking old and dated by todays standards.
They sent a reply to him with a proposal detailing what they would offer and how much it would cost.
So, I sat back and started reading.
After going through the usual introduction rubbish about this, that and the other, Google this, search optimisation that, you know the sort of rubbish, they get down to what they were actually proposing.
They wanted to introduce a Wordpress based site. WTF? I thought.....and kept reading.
They then go onto say that this would require moving from the current windows based hosting to Linux based hosting as Wordpress is based on PHP and requires Linux.
At this point they lost all credibility and had it been me they returned the proposal to, I would have been on the phone and ripped them a new @r$ehole.
Having just spent a couple of weeks in December trying Wordpress, DotNetNuke, Orchard and god knows what else, I wasn't best pleased with their response. Considering I had somehow managed to test these all on a Windows box.
Needless to say I have since fed this back to my cousin, and asked him to go back and do some fishing with them and see how much more garbage they want to spurt. And as for their prices, they can poke them as well.
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DaveAuld wrote: and requires Linux.
You should not have stopped reading, on the next page, they request Norton Anti Virus to be installed on the Linux server.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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and recomemded hardware as raspberry pi!
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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DaveAuld wrote: ...and had it been me they returned the proposal to, I would have been on the phone and ripped them a new @r$ehole.
Instead of just responding with "Thanks, but this is not the approach we are interested in taking" and moving on?
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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where is the fun in that?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Doesn't quite have the same ring to it though...and they would then go and try the same thing with the next potential client.
I think it often depends on what mood I'm in when I get up in the morning.
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Point him to this.[^]
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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I have seen this myself. The company here had an outside "developer" team that insisted the website had to be on a Linux box. Then tried to say that a crappily built eCommerce site was worth $200,000.00
The woman running the show would charge a $500 fee for "coordination fee" just for passing information to her so called programmer, which she claimed was worth $400 an hour in an emergency(THEIR code got hacked but it was our fault..3 times in 6 months).
things of that nature abounded in that mess.
After I took over the IT department it took me a few months of conniving and convincing the bosses that they were dirty and bending us over a barrel, but we now have a new developer and new website. the other guys are history.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder
Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow.
You can't scare me, I have children.
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Wordpress and PHP do run a little better on Linux than on Windows servers (in my experience). Specially with regard to performance (including DB access).
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ASP.NET is a bitch though!
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Maybe so, but it isn't a mandatory requirement as implied in the proposal by using the word 'must'!
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It's mandatory if their developer doesn't know anything else.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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My fiancee makes WP sites all the time, it is apparently quite easy and widely used. The list of companies that she has been contracted to is pretty impressive, I'm surprised when she gets a new gig to find out Company X uses WP.
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