Website for Ltd

[unixman]

I think you fail to see the full functionality of wordpress. You seem to be referencing the wordpress blog a few times, There are two types the wordpress blog but also a static wordpress site that can be hosted anywhere with your own domain name. You can make it what you want and with all the plugins will easily do what you require it to do.

EDIT: There are four types

Blog
Static
Static front Page + Blog
Dynamic Front Page

https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating...tic_Front_Page

I will do some testing on that, but for now I don't really want the weight of Wordpress, plugins and LAMP stack for this particular application. Not at the moment anyway.

[Boney M]

I will do some testing on that, but for now I don't really want the weight of Wordpress, plugins and LAMP stack for this particular application. Not at the moment anyway.

There is no weight to it?

[unixman]

LAMP implies your site depends on running php (or perl) and a database (MySQL). At the other end of the spectrum, a feather light website would be just a static HTML file. requiring only Apache or similar. That is what I want in this case. You don't have to convince me of Wordpress goodness. I know it's great, it just isn't my weapon of choice for this particular job.

[LondonManc]

I will do some testing on that, but for now I don't really want the weight of Wordpress, plugins and LAMP stack for this particular application. Not at the moment anyway.

I've used this in the past to build a site locally:
Usbwebserver V8

That's allowed me to weigh up what hosting package I need and it would typically be the cheapest. Like I said earlier, though, a dedicated Joomla hosting site may be even cheaper as they offer locked down functionality (i.e. Joomla only) but a bargain price to go with it.

[unixman]

Cheers for the replies. To whom it may concern, after trying a number of self-hosted solutions I went with GetSimple, one of the many open source CMS solutions available. Not perfect but it will do for now. It runs on my personal LAMP server.

GetSimple is right at the "lite" end of things. It doesn't have a back end database and just uses XML files to store the data. This means I can host it on a server that already runs MySQL for something else, without the headache of two MySQL instances. Also it is very fast. Also, I think having a full RDBMS is overkill for a site comprising of just one or two static pages and a single user.

So anyway I just typed in the blurb and selected template. I might revisit later on and try Wordpress, htmly or even vi.

[Boo]

This means I can host it on a server that already runs MySQL for something else, without the headache of two MySQL instances.

Sorry, but what is the issue of having multiple MySQL databases ?

Boo

[unixman]

It's more complex than running one instance. Google "multiple mysql instances".

[Boney M]

It's more complex than running one instance. Google "multiple mysql instances".

Would have VM'd it