SMTP Service Required... obviously cheap as this is MSE!

PasturesNew

If anybody could use a new employee that happens to be good at SEO etc ... give me a shout. But techie stuff isn't what I'm interested in.

I want to randomly turn up at my site, it should be there, I should write stuff and leave ... and that should be the end of it. I've spent way way way too much of my time in the past 4-5 weeks on server/site problems and downtime... and the helpdesks always assume you know what you're doing. Well, all I want to do is have a little site

edgex

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, I'd expect most people to have a good sized list. It's not like I worked hard to get that one. All double opt-in etc.

"Does it have to be email?" ... er ... what other choices are there?

depends on what your actually using the communiques for


other choices, eg. rss feed

PasturesNew

edgex wrote: »

depends on what your actually using the communiques for


other choices, eg. rss feed

Ah, well, there is an rss feed on the site. I doubt it has any subscribers. I've never thought about that before ... I wouldn't even know if it had subscribers, or how to find out.

Generally speaking, I suspect my website visitors aren't the sort to know what rss is, or to subscribe to the feed. To be honest, even I've never subscribed to an rss feed. I suspect a lot of my website visitors are a bit dim, horrible thing to say, but I do think a lot are

Do you know, right until THIS point in time, it's never occurred to me to even look at my own rss feed... I'm off to do that now.

Not sure how rss on my site would work. It's a modular content management system - possibly 10-15 modules per page, dunno how many pages ... 100? 200? So, not sure if the rss works, or what it works on, or what's in it.... I'd better go and look.

PasturesNew

B4lls. Couldn't work out how to get my rss feed to see it - I was clicking on the orange thing and the site seemed to just reload as a site, then the site's gone t1ts again... off to recycle that d4mned app pool

ehlo

A Virtual Private server is a whole operating system that you have control of but without having dedicated hardware for it. It can be used as stepping stone between shared and dedicated hosting and has pricing to go along with this.

You should be able to get a good VPS for £20/mo. Things used to be better but now the dollar isn't so good against the pound.

PasturesNew

OK. My site is RSS fail. There's one item in it - from July 2009. So now I need to find about about using an RSS feed on my type of site. I think I have a clue, but it will mean going through about 2000 modules to check each one individually. There's always been a little tick box in each module that said about RSS and I always turned it off, thinking "why would I want one module to have an rss feed", as if I'd be generating hundreds out of my site. I can see now that clicking that would have meant the contents were added to the rss feed.

But thinking that through, most of my site is static. So, to send out messages in an rss feed I'd have to have just one module feeding into it ... and then I don't know how that would work in practice. Whole bunch of techie reading and testing etc to be done there then! Say 2-3 days... and if I have to go through every module to check, that's another 1-2 weeks of work. Now ... see where I am not actually getting any time to work on my site? It's all just problems all the time. Every time I discover something new, it's a whole bunch of mindless admin work/checking, never progressing the site. I've NEVER got to the "promote it" stage, not once... always too much to fiddle with

edgex

http://homeworker-directory.com/feed/

:huh:

21 August 2009, 10:06:09

PasturesNew

ehlo wrote: »

A Virtual Private server is a whole operating system that you have control of but without having dedicated hardware for it. It can be used as stepping stone between shared and dedicated hosting and has pricing to go along with this.

You should be able to get a good VPS for £20/mo. Things used to be better but now the dollar isn't so good against the pound.

You see, I don't want control of anything. I just want stuff to exist and work. I don't want to be a server master... not at all. It sucks up your time, stuff changes, I am not a programmer, no time/money/desire to go onto ASP.net courses and IIS courses and server courses, then keep on top of them ... just to control a server. I buy hosting so I don't need to know that stuff. Hosting where problems are fixed.

PasturesNew

edgex wrote: »

:huh:

21 August 2009, 10:06:09

Wrong site. Please remove

ehlo

I understand. If you buy managed VPS hosting then the company will manage it for you so it is identical to shared hosting but without the limitations

Here is one provider of a managed service that I have heard good things about. This is probably on the pricer side although the coupons at the top of the page reduce it a bit and they do sales every so often