General discussion

I want to have a "philosophical" discussion about something that frustrates me.

Why do so many people post on Drupal.org, asking for "us developers" to build them a website because they have an "idea", but no budget or any other advantage to bring to the table. I think it is a disease of our modern society where people think like "I have a great idea, but no money, please build me a free site and I'll give you a good reference IF the work is done right." Absurd, as if developers never have good site ideas and "idea people" should make millions of free/cheap developer labor.

Something is wrong here. Let's call it the "Winklevoss-mentality" after the Winklevoss brothers who sued Facebook's Zuckerberg for stealing "their idea". This is a kind of mentality that actually inhibits innovation.

There's a few ways to to innovate:

- you have an idea -> learn the skills an d build it yourself;
- you have an idea -> hire a well-paid developer team;

In contrast to the Winklevoss mentality:

- we have an idea, then someone else built it-> go to court

To my honest opinion "ideas" have zero value. All ideas should be "open source".

Ok so i play a bit of Call of duty, too much actually, and I was thinking you know it might be a good idea to add some of the call of duty features to drupal.org.

I have been saying for a while now that there should be a donation button on project pages, but obviously easy contribution to the very people that create drupal is not that important. So i am probably going to let this die on deaf eyes. anyways ...

So in Call of duty you have about 40 seconds between games to add packages , badges, emblems change guns or whatever. And you get more titles and badges and "stuff" as you get better . The more kills you make the more titles. If you get certain care packages in a certain games you get a certain type of badge and title. It would be really cool to apply it to drupal.org . So if you post 4 issues you get a badge ( and a different badge even for major modules .. a freakin cool badge for core modules. ) then you get titles if you make a patch . if you have a module you get a free "saying" - short saying under your name or something i dont know this is just of the top of my head. Then you can select the badge and title that people we see in all the post you go on the create.

Hi all, I have a drupal site, just a small business site. I am finding its home.

I have narrowed it to A2 Hosting, SiteGround and Site5.

Anyone has experience with these 3 companies? I need your advice very much.

Thanks
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I have had so many problems with Drupal 7, I cannot count them all.
I have installed my own website 5 times. I have a test server that is now in spasm. It has less than 6 pages on it but is in constant refresh mode.

IMHO Releasing a product in 2011 that does not have basic SEO or send email is irresponsible. Clearly there is a management problem.

I am not stupid. I have 20 years experience as a programmer, some as a PHP programmer. Yet I cannot install this product so it will provide basic functions. Something is wrong.

I work in IT managed services, and we usually support clients via block hours, managed services at a flat recurring monthly rate, and finally at an hourly rate. It seems most software development is either block or hourly time and materials. Does anyone have any experience having receiving support at a monthly recurring rate? Or if any shops have used this model successfully?

Sold.