Re: State of our hosting page

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Selena Deckelmann <selena(at)chesnok(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Selena Deckelmann <selena(at)chesnok(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Selena Deckelmann <selena(at)chesnok(dot)com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > This is out of date:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_hosting/
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Also, compared to the PostGIS list, our list seems oddly corporate and
>>>>> > lacking:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiPostGISHosters
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Perhaps the solution is to start a wiki page?
>>>>>
>>>>> The page on the website is dynamically generated and can easily be
>>>>> added to by hosters or others. I don't see how moving to a wiki page
>>>>> would make it any more up to date than the current page could be - and
>>>>> it has the downside of moving yet another page onto the wiki which has
>>>>> very a poor page rank in Google.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How do we remove companies whose information is obsolete?
>>>
>>> Email pgsql-www, or if you want to work on it for more than a one-off
>>> update, we can give you access to the admin interface.
>>
>> In the specific case of Selena, she already has that access, since
>> she's a "web slave".
>>
>> As for the original question, there was an idea years ago to have the
>> system send an emali to the companies at regular interval asking them
>> to reconfirm their information. It got as far as a field in the
>> database, which was migraed onto the new website as well I believe.
>> But the actual reconfirmation process hasn't been implemented yet...
>
> Oh, that's a good idea. :)

Good enough that you will provide a patch? ;)

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