Hi Andre,

Your comments and experience with siteground will be most interesting. Mark (bizwiz) considers them as the best.
We will have enough time to look into your new plan and Michael's too.

Here comes an interesting link from John: www.yousendit.com/cms/compareaccounts. Have a look at their free plan and the conditions. Interesting teaser and easy to understand if you know the traffic of your site. We'll discuss these kind of offers too.

Cheers,
Matthias

I will be at the meeting

Would love to be there Matthias, but the last thing I want to do is be driving into Melbourne at 6.00pm. Anxiety attacks and all mate.

I really would like to know what's going on though, so would appreciate minutes or some sort of info on what was discussed.

I notice that Geelong has started up. Any thoughts on a Bendigo group? At least that's only 75km away from me.

Cheers,


Ric

Hi Ric,

No worries, I know you are coming from far away. Not sure whether somebody will volunteer to take the minutes, but we will do our best and I can certainly talk you through the main outcomes too.

A group in Bendigo is a good idea. Somebody needs to kick it off and keep the ball rolling. Interested? You can use this forum to get an idea of how many people may be interested. I know of at least one more person in that area and you are at least not only one seeking companionship...

Cheers,
Matthias

Hi everyone,

I've been aware of Joomla for about a year now but never had a chance to explore its wonder till now. I looking forward to coming to the MJUG meeting this week to meet other enthusiasts and more importantly pick your brains.

What a subtle way you have of suggesting I kick it off mate.. LOL. Still, I would be happy to do that.

So, if there is anyone interested in a Bendigo or Central Vic Users Group, please contact me.


Cheers,


Ric

I will try to get there on Wednesday. I'm currently hosting my personal site at Planet Domain, and have had no issues. Their support is fast and knowledgeable. Thay have cPanel & Fantastico to install J! (currently 1.0.13) but I installed mine manually without problems.

www.planetdomain.com.au/home.jsp
www.br-eng.info/

ROSCO

Regarding the Bendigo group. I am from Shepparton and as i am sure Mathias can confirm, I have been finding it very hard to get to Melbourne for any of the MUG meetings. I seriously want to get involved in some way but to date have been to Zero meetings. I would be interested in talking about this idea more as it would be a closer venue for me to attend.

I think I am going to make some serious effort to get to this next melbourne meeting considering it will be focusing on hosting stuff. I have been doing website hosting for about 5-6 years now and specifically tuning the hosting service toward Joomla for the last 12 months. We do not market this hosting service yet we manage around 180 clients. It is not a huge system yet we have a very high speed connection and all of the standard Cpanel/Fantastico services.

I hope I can have some valuable input in letting people know what they need to look for in a host. For example, some people may not know about something called PHP_SUEXEC which is invaluable for overcoming any issues with user permissions with Joomla templates, component and module installs.

I will be attending, I can't wait!

I certainly know Shepparton well Brenden. Got an Uncle over there at Wunghu that we visit and used to live out near Kyabram. Perhaps we can get something going in Bendigo and draw in users from Central Vic and surrounds..... That would be great.

Cheers,


Ric