One more poll - SiteDepth or Awiz

[deanb]

Alright, so I am purchasing a CMS for my site this weekend. I was wondering what you guys though, SiteDepth or Awiz. I have looked into both, and SiteDepth looks to be SUPER user friendly, but in the past I have heard of people recommending AWIZ.. So, which one do you think is better?

[basschick]

awiz was good for me HOWEVER i didn't use the most recent version.

i believe DEVELISH is workin on a cms right now. why not talk to him? maybe you can suggest some stuff and get in on the ground floor...

[deanb]

I hope it isn't too soon to give this a BUMP. I would really be interested to hear peoples reasons behind using the one that they do.

And, basschick... good idea, I haven't ever talked to devilsh before, but I will..

[Chilihost]

I have had a lot of issues with SD including security issues (which are currently under investigation by the SD team and a hired expert), we switched to AWiz.

cheers,
Luke

[LavenderLounge]

I've been having security issues, too, and coincidentally, I have SD as well.

I'm switching over to an open source cms called Joomla.

[deanb]

You guys with security issues... is there anything to help those out? I really like the ease of use of SideDepth.

[Chilihost]

To the credit of the SiteDepth team, they launched an investigation and hired a security expert within 24 hours of the issue arising. But its only been a short time, so as far as I know, the security investigation is still going on.

[deanb]

To the credit of the SiteDepth team, they launched an investigation and hired a security expert within 24 hours of the issue arising. But its only been a short time, so as far as I know, the security investigation is still going on.

I will talk to them about this, and see what they have to say, and if the status has changed, or if they have updated.

[LavenderLounge]

Like I said, I had hacker problems for a whole month. Everytime it happened, all the galleries in SD would disappear. To get them back, SD would have to re-install the software, and only they could do it, so I was at their mersey.

Finally, when we found the hole and locked everything down, the auto-update feature in SD wouldn't work. I'm not too technical, but as I understand, in order for it to auto-update, the security on that section has to be a bit vulnerable. Otherwise, security on the site is now so tight I have to manually turn on and off permissions everytime I make a blog entry, but SD still has a small hole in order to operate.

[Bec]

I also got hacked this week through the sitedepth, as of yet, I've to learn just how they got in, but the entire paysite and cms had to be removed from the server. We'll be adding it back to the site que through Carma, which is more robust, better support and has a lot more features available.

[DEVELISH]

How much is Carma, Bec - haven't found a price on their site

correction: just did: http://www.toomuchmedia.com/order/specials.html

holy shit

[basschick]

if carma is the one i'm thinking of, i don't care for it from a member standpoint. the way the pages load is annoying - at least, it is to me.

[gaybucks_chip]

Carma is something like $3500 to buy or $150/month to lease. (that is a per-site cost.) It looked interesting and flexible to us when we got the demo, but it did not have 2257 documentation support and was entirely Smarty driven, which required our web guy to have some understanding of Smarty.

[Bec]

Carma is something like $3500 to buy or $150/month to lease. (that is a per-site cost.) It looked interesting and flexible to us when we got the demo, but it did not have 2257 documentation support and was entirely Smarty driven, which required our web guy to have some understanding of Smarty.

Yea ... the Smarty definately isn't making me feel very smart at the moment, but from what I understand, they use it instead of regular php because it's more secure.

[SPACE GLIDER]

SiteDepth ... cause it's easier.