[TYPO3-english] so called TYPO3-supporting providers

[Ron Hall]

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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