MS to drop Sharepoint public sites from O365 - thoughts?
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I was thinking about trying to use this, guess it's a good thing I haven't yet.
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This is not something we ever used for us internally or with any of our clients.
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I've never seen anyone use it before. SharePoint is not something that I would ever use for public web hosting. I think discontinuing it is a good thing.
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Going to chime in with agreement on this. I have never seen it used in the wild at a client.
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It was a nice idea but I would have preferred if they just had a generic web hosting offering if they were going to go down that route. But really, web hosting is different than everything that Microsoft offers and it is an area in which their infrastructure would be unnecessarily complex and expensive. It's really hard to beat a large scale Apache farm for basic web hosting.
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@scottalanmiller said:
It was a nice idea but I would have preferred if they just had a generic web hosting offering if they were going to go down that route.
It is called Azure Websites
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@scottalanmiller said:
But really, web hosting is different than everything that Microsoft offers and it is an area in which their infrastructure would be unnecessarily complex and expensive.
Sharepoint is a content management system, so (in theory) is no different from using Wordpress hosting? I'd say it isn't so much that they don't have the product, it's that their product is so inferior that no-one ended up using it.
I was going to use it for a company I look after who need a new, simple website and currently have Office 365. Microsoft marketing indicated that this would be a reasonable thing for me to do. I never got round to it and that option has been taken away - which is almost certainly for the best.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Sharepoint is a content management system, so (in theory) is no different from using Wordpress hosting? I'd say it isn't so much that they don't have the product, it's that their product is so inferior that no-one ended up using it.
WordPress is a CMS. SharePoint is an application platform with CMS being one component of it. SharePoint CAN do it, but is so incredibly heavy for that purpose that it does not really make sense. It's overkill that comes with huge cost and overhead to implement.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
I was going to use it for a company I look after who need a new, simple website and currently have Office 365. Microsoft marketing indicated that this would be a reasonable thing for me to do. I never got round to it and that option has been taken away - which is almost certainly for the best.
When it was free it made some sense, although the effort to do this was high. SharePoint takes a lot more work than, say, WordPress and the performance is not there.
