Elgg Community Support and Development Forum

Please come check out the new…..

Elgg Community Support and Development Forum

at  ElggForum.com

Please help me by posting a message elsewhere… everywhere… and help spread the word about this new totally OPEN community of sharing…..

If this new community takes off… and does some good…. it will benefit us all.

Thanks,

Bruce

Bruce Wagner
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UPDATE: (Dec 10, 2008)  I’ve now created a new Elgg Community Support and Development Forum

Mind you, I am an Absolute Beginner with Elgg….

But I just wanted to point this out….

I’ve discovered that GoDaddy.com hosting provides something called ‘Quick Install Apps’….. It’s a free service…. And ELGG is one of their Quick Install Apps…

This means that, with ONE CLICK, you can install Elgg.

I did just that.

It installs the database, the application, and configures everything you need done… all with one single click…. It’s automated.

It installs version 1.0…… But… I was able to upgrade to 1.1 myself easily.

Since their Quick Install installation sets everything up for 1.0, I was able to then upgrade by simply uploading (overwriting) all the files from the version 1.1 ZIP file….. then visiting your  http://you-elgg-site.com/upgrade.php  page. It couldn’t be more simple!!!

( No, I am NOT affiliated with GoDaddy in any way. )

By the way, their ‘deluxe’ hosting plan gives us an UNLIMITED number of web sites. So, if I have 14 domains…. I can have 14 installations of Elgg…. all for about $6.66 per month….. about $0.48 each…

If you have the ‘economy’ hosting plan…. for just one web site…. it’s about $4.75 per month. If you have 2 or more sites, the ‘deluxe’ is a better deal.

Also, the ‘premium’ plan gives you all the same as the ‘deluxe’, UNLIMITED web sites, …plus UNLIMITED storage, plus UNLIMITED bandwidth…

I know I sound like I’m plugging them, but since so many people seem to be looking for cheap Elgg hosting…. and SUPER EASY installation of Elgg…. I just wanted to share this discovery with y’all.

PS – They also offer everything Open Source…. from WordPress to Joomla to you name it… all with easy One Click install.

PPS – I personally think they have the absolute best telephone customer support of any company I’ve ever dealt with — not just tech companies… the best of ANY company. (in my personal experience)