Just hosting you need or what? What requirements?
Ha, yep, totally missed that… Hosting…!
I don’t know pricing but 500 bucks for two years doesn’t sound bad if it includes everything tbh….
Last time around it was just over £300 and they’ve done nothing to warrant the price rise.
Is cloud stuff getting more expensive by a lot these days or am I dreaming?
Someone at work was banging on about the ai boom jacking prices of everything sky high.
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I’m not on the ai train but I have noticed things like disney and the like have upped their prices by quite a lot. I figured it was because the demands of streaming and cloud services require a fuxkton of energy and water to run the data centres. AI has pushed that through the roof. So rpices go up because it’s an expensive unethical business and everyone has to lock in or be left behind.
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@ciaran Domains from cloudflare as they don’t add on anything over and above the registrar price. Easy to transfer to as well. And…cloudflare protection if you need it.
I am using digitalocean for this forum and my other projects (referral link). It’s great if you want to get your hands dirty and get into the tech and have absolute control. Might not be to everyone’s taste as it’s a bit more work to set up. Droplet prices are from around $4 a month. 500 quid is a lot for basic hosting.
Thing is, everyone will say their host is the best until you find out they only have experience of that one host. I have used hostgator, siteground, nativespace (nativespace support are pretty good, and that was a referral link), but I’m no expert. From my limited experience as I said I’m quite liking the full control of digital ocean.
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Thanks for all that, will investigate
Sorry, I can’t be bothered to search if it’s been asked before.
Can another recommend a free video editing software for Mac? I want to make some short videos for YouTube/social bullshit for work. Doesn’t need to be overly powerful, just something half decent. I used to play around with premier and after effects back in the day but haven’t touched either in nearly 20 years.
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I haven’t used the Mac version, but I’d suggest DaVinci Resolve.
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Yup really good on Mac!
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Does anyone have any experience with SQL querys?
I have to build some for badge allocations on a Discourse forum (same as this), Chat GPT will obviously do it, but I don’t really understand what it is doing.
What do you need to select?
or what has ChatGPT given you?
You could ask ChatGPT to annotate the query with comments to give you some idea of what it’s doing.
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DM me if U want. My brain is a database I basically think in SQL.
I know you are in Oz but do you have time for a call this morning
Sorry no can do today, can probably do tomorrow if U need it.
Meanwhile, not sure if you read this but it seems like it might help Creating custom badge with custom rules - #5 by Kushalghosh9899 - Data & reporting - Discourse Meta
SQL is basically english if your tables and columns have nice names and you understand joins. Post or DM me your logic for the badges and I’ll be able to write an example that you can tweak
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Apple has moved its create suite to a subscription service, interesting to see how that goes. Far more competitively priced than adobe at £129 a year full price.
I’ve been asked if I can build a Microsite for a client who I’ve done a bit of design work for in the past, but I’m not a developer so am unsure how much to charge them.
It’d be a simple site - maybe 5 pages - and I’d likely build it in Squarespace, as I can just adapt pre set templates, add in photos, logo etc, plus they also get a custom domain including the pricing.
They’re a charity, and my usual rate for them is £260 a day, but that’s for print and brand work, stuff I know how to do.
Don’t want to come in too low for this, but also don’t want to end up with loads of work (as it’ll definitely take longer than I’m expecting) for not enough money.
Any pricing advice on the going rate for a simple site?
Charge them £2000 project rate with 3 rounds of amends. Domain name and hosting via Squarespace is about £250 per year, plus email addresses - all this is something they’d cover anyway.
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