[TYPO3-english] so called TYPO3-supporting providers

Andreas Becker ab.becker at web.de
Sun Jul 5 18:45:15 CEST 2009


+1Thanks Ron
Andi


On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Ron Hall <ronslists at busynoggin.com> wrote:

> Hello Bernd,
>
> First let me say that your suggestion for a testing script is a good
> one. SlideShowPro director has such a script for its application and I
> have found it helpful. It checks for all the required items and also
> for the "nice to have" items. It would even better that it be a stand
> alone file not a T3d file as you could test before you had TYPO3
> installed.
>
> However, I still believe a paid certification is still a good idea. A
> hosting company would not have to be certified. They can still claim
> they support TYPO3 just like non-certified developers can offer TYPO3
> services. I have not yet taken the certification exam, but I am a
> competent TYPO3 developer and advertise as such.
>
> Non-certification does not mean a company is not competent, but simply
> that, for whatever reason, they have chosen not to be certified. But
> certification would mean that the company has invested the time and
> capital to be certified and that those efforts are officially
> recognized.
>
> As for hosting companies deciding on certification or not, there is a
> difference between a hosting company being cheap and being low-cost.
>
> To be profitable, a low-cost provider depends upon volume, in other
> words, hosting many sites. Since certification fees would be charged
> per host and not per site, these hosts should be able to afford
> certification as easily as premium hosts.
>
> The hosts that would have trouble would be those that are trying to
> conduct business by being low-cost AND low-volume which is always an
> unprofitable business strategy.
>
> Ron Hall
> Busy Noggin, Inc.
>
>
> On Jul 5, 2009, at 10:58 AM, bernd wilke wrote:
>
> > Am Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:37:13 -0500 schrieb Ron Hall:
> >
> >> Hi Andi,
> >>
> >> Athough I believe the Association should not bother itself with
> >> policing
> >> hosts who simply say they support TYPO3, I also believe your idea
> >> of a
> >> hosting certification has merit. I could see it working like the
> >> current
> >> developer certification. The Association could legitimately charge
> >> fees
> >> since time would needed for verifying and monitoring the certified
> >> hosts
> >> and hosts would gain value by being certified.
> >
> > I don't think that providers which want to be cheap would pay for a
> > certificate.
> > may be we could build up a more complex test than the IM-tests in
> > install-
> > tool? something similar to the acid-test for browsers:
> > a basic webpage as t3d-import which includes the most common
> > functionality (requiring an extension which must be installed before,
> > working on some images, sending a mail (registering), pdf to img, AI
> > to
> > img, ... )
> >
> > Each provider can install this testpage and everyone can see on the
> > resulting website which functions are available, which not.
> >
> > bernd
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