Lending Web Space – Scouts Help School!

In the school where I work, we have a diary system which is a web based one. All members of staff have access to it so they can record if they are going out, having visitors or record any other information that the members of staff might need to know about. It sits on web space the school owns and is available whether you are in school or in the ‘real world’.

There is a small problem with it though. After around 160 entries have been entered, it crashes! Which is, of course, no use to anyone! So after trying a number of different ‘fixes’, some of which were suggested by the chap who wrote the calendar, it was decided to put it on another host’s web space.

My colleague who set it all up in the first place has his web space hosted by the same company as the school, so he asked me if we could put it on mine. However, I knew my own web space (which this is on) was going to be upgraded, so I put it on my Scout Group’s site (no one can grumble at me doing that as I own and pay for it!) to ensure nothing got interrupted.

And it works (well so far!) and we haven’t had any issues since – well except for the staff member who just came to me saying she couldn’t see the entry she’d just made for a date in 1981!

The point of all this is that I didn’t have to put it on my / the Scout Group’s space, but it’s worth doing a favour to the school as they are very good to the Group. They let us use the school minibus and I was able to borrow a projector for last weeks Pack meeting. In fact I may even end up getting a couple of the old PCs we’re getting rid of next week for the Group as well. A good example of cooperation benefiting two organisations I think!

Oh and for those of you in the know, we are thinking of getting an Exchange server in the next couple of years which will render the calendar obsolete!