[BlueOnyx:24219] Re: Personal web pages in 5210R

[Ken Hohhof]

I agree, we haven't seen interest in this for literally 20 years.  Personal websites were replaced by social media (maybe Geocities in the early days of that timeline).  If these are web designers wanting to showcase their work, they should get a domain or you could offer subdomains, instead of user directories with the confusing tilde.  If you can't even afford a domain for your work, who would pay you to design a site for them?  It's like hiring an IT professional who has an AOL email address.

Actually, I'd say over 90% of problems we ever encountered with Cobalt/BQ/BO hosting was customers mistakenly uploading to the personal directory of the site admin rather than the public site.  So this was a feature people haven't wanted for many many years, that caused all sorts of problems.


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From: Blueonyx <blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it> On Behalf Of Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2020 7:30 AM
To: blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it
Subject: [BlueOnyx:24217] Re: Personal web pages in 5210R

Hi Ernie,

On 8/27/2020 7:10 AM, Ernie wrote:
> How does one go about adding personal web pages in 5210R like you can 
> do in 5209R and prior versions.
>
> There use to be a web directory in each users home they could put 
> pages into, that seems to be missing in 5210R and access via a url like"
> http://example.com/~bob or https://www.example.com/~ernie
>
I'm asking because I'm genuinely curious:  Is this still a useful function in this day and age, or is it more of an issue that you have some users who have had it since the dark ages and expect it will be carried over?    In my experience, the /~userweb was a very seldom-used feature and given the relative inconvenience of using it vs. other publishing methods, I'm curious to know what the use case is these days.   Perhaps I'm being myopic?

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