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"Expensive" used here is defined as a shared hosting provider that's available all over the internet for 1-10 USD a month, correct? And "trapped forever" is de
by ctvo 11y ago
"Expensive" used here is defined as a shared hosting provider that's available all over the internet for 1-10 USD a month, correct?
And "trapped forever" is defined as the inability to copy / paste the output source of the CMS into a static file HTML, correct?
- grimmfang 11y agoWhat he defines as "expensive" is ~$1-2 a month when all the websites are hosted on the same box. My understanding of his argument is that CMS software traps the nonprofit while quite the opposite is true. CMS software actually gives a nontechnical user many more options to get work done on their site outside of the programmer community. Anyone can hire a cheap Wordpress guy. This whole idea that we are trapping anyone or locking them into some expensive solution is laughable. One of our customers who is 70+ years old owns a nonprofit doing 1MM+ revenue/yr. He's been paying $5000 a month for their Wordpress site hosting. That means when he switched to us he saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in the grand scheme. This is an extreme case but many of our users have been overpaying for things they really don't need. I just don't understand how anyone can criticize what we are doing as harming nonprofits. He's living in a fantasy if he thinks the average nonprofit can even understand what "static site" means.
- fiatjaf 11y agoDoes the average nonprofit earn 1MM revenue?