I'm somewhat concerned about the club's website, principally given how it keeps going offline for quite long periods of time recently. I've got a number of technical concerns and I know I'm not the only one who's aired them. I do have one simple question though.....
Who is the webmaster these days, does anyone know?
Hosting a website involves maintaining the ownership of the domain name/names, maintaining the hosting package, maintaining the web content, and in the case of the club the site has both a bulletin board (discussion forum, phpBB) and a news blog (WordPress) There's also a back end which provides some email facilities and newsletters. There's a variety of control panels for each of these and I'm pretty certain that not all the people who do help out with some of the website's content across these different platforms have access to all these sections which is fine and in many ways a good thing. However is there anyone that actually has control and who is doing the back office admin and tidying. An example is backups and optimisation of content such as images. Some of the photos people are posting are huge files which will eventually overload the hosting package limits simply because files are not web optimised.
I think given that the site has been offline quite a bit lately and no one seems to know what is going on and who's fixing it or indeed why it's gone offline I think it ought to be a priority for the club to get it sorted and under some sort of control.
I'm not having a go at anyone or group of people I'm simply worried that sooner or later we'll all lose what is a superb resource of information and knowledge if there's no one who is doing this.