Re: State of our hosting page

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 This is out of date: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 How do we remove companies whose information is obsolete?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. :)

-selena

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