foolfillment: the blog

Well, as a follow up to my post earlier, it seems the uni don’t allow student run sites to use databases on their servers, which leaves me with a problem - how do I run the GUPA site?

At the moment there is a page on Glasgow Uni’s space which redirects to a folder in the foolfillment domain and the GUPA site is run from there, using a database my hosts provide. I’d really like to make it freestanding and independent of foolfillment, mostly because in a little over a year I’ll be leaving the uni/club and won’t be able to carry on running the site. Having the site here isn’t a problem as such, it just isn’t right. I could try to convince the club to buy its own space and domain (spelunking.co.uk maybe?!) and run it from there, or I could maybe move all the files over to the uni server and still host the database here. The other alternative, which I really don’t fancy is to look for a solution that doesn’t use a database, or even any sort of CMS software and go retro with static pages that have to maintained with notepad.

Any ideas? I think I’ll suggest the club buy gupa.co.uk for the next couple of years.

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