I’m involved with an org that needs to set up a public wishlist for supplies for a project. The rough requirements are as follows:
- Public webpage with a static URL
- Can be easily edited by non-technical people
- Editing requires authentication
- Avoiding corporate services, especially avoiding tracking of both users and admins
- As cheap as reasonably possible
- As quick to set up as possible
Nice to have:
- Hosted under a custom domain
- Supports users “reserving” items so multiple people don’t all supply the same stuff
One option I considered would be running something like wishthis in a VPS under our own domain, but this is kinda expensive, complex, and I don’t trust wishthis’ auth. A different option could be just having a static page in something like Notion or Github pages, which would be free but relies on corporate services we don’t trust.
Is there a middle ground between the two previous options? Or a better solution that fits most of the requirements?
Do you have a server, connection and domain available?
If yes, a simple Joomla setup with a single static page should work well.
We can set up all of those but again, that’s kinda expensive for us rn. What’s the benefit of using a CMS like Joomla versus wishthis, or even a basic Caddy/Nginx webserver with a static page?
What is more expensive for your organization: time or money? In general, your options that cost less take more time to setup, and vice versa.
It seems like cheap is more important, so I would roughly do:
This is way too overkill for what we need. I’m sorry, I’ve been intentionally vague about the context for this but I guess it’s too unclear. We’re an activist group planning a protest. We might have to get this set up literally tomorrow and every penny comes out of (mostly my) pocket. We’re also all paranoid about opsec and anonymity, which is why the requirement about avoiding corporate services is there. Perhaps I should have posted this in a privacy focused comm instead, I apologize.
There’s a free web hosting service called HelioHost that’s completely funded by donations. It’s really really good, especially for being free. It’s not owned by any big companies and all you need is to make an account