On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 07:57:16AM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
My friend is a designer, not a web host, and only hosts because he has to. He's spending more and more of his time managing the hosting due to issues with his current provider and he wants to dump as much of that onto someone better qualified to deal with it as possible. All he really needs is a way to set-up a site (allocate it disk space, configure Apache for the domain, configure email for the domain), with the rest being managed via FTP. And to be honest, if his way to set things up was to fire an email to someone who did it all for him with no web interfaces involved, just leaving him with an FTP account per site to upload to, then I think he'd be very happy (as long as whoever responded to those emails did so in a reasonable time frame, of-course).
If any of this is something that software.coop (or anyone else on the list) are interested in just shout! I'd really like to give him some choices of people I "know".
I'm quite happy (and allowed) to sell him some of mt TsoHost hosting. My 'ultimate hosting' account allow me to have up to 100 (or is it 200) domains/sites hosted. I only have a dozen, or maybe 20, at present.
I'd be very happy to do the 'keep it all working smoothly' bit, install Wordpress (or whatever) etc. The TsoHost set up is such that most of what your friend wants is done automatically when you configure a new domain for hosting on TsoHost. (Note: no need from TsoHost's point of view to have the domain registered with them) I'd only have to get involved with odd bits of configuration like where to forward E-Mail and adding any software needed.