Re: Hosted Help - server specs?

[Julie Stickler <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Also I find it kind of interesting that you talk about "the traditional
CHM" as backup.

I've been a technical writer for over a dozen years now, and I've never
produced a CHM file.  I've always produced some flavor of WebHelp.  Are
people still producing CHM files?  (not to derail my own topic, but I'm
curious).


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Hannah Drake <hannah -at- formulatrix -dot- com> wrote:

> 1) Are all of your customers hooked up to the Internet? any high-security
> customers? These kinds of things can cause hosted "help" problems.
> 2) Most companies that have online help also do the traditional CHM as a
> backup, so you can't completely get rid of in-product help.
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> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Julie Stickler <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com>wrote:
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>> I've had several requests from various product managers about moving from
>> having our Help files built into the product to having our Help and
>> documentation hosted on a Web site somewhere.  I'd love to make this
>> change, because Release Notes are always changing up to the very last
>> minute, and then we have to rebuild the installer and run through the QA
>> test suite again.  Decoupling the doc deliver from the builds would have
>> so
>> many benefits for not just our process, but would allow me to make doc
>> updates as needed (vs. on the release schedule).
>>
>> I've got several ideas about how to go about this, but before I head down
>> to talk to IT about getting server space, I thought I'd tap the collective
>> brain power of TechWrl and see if there's anything I haven't thought of,
>> or
>> good advice from the TW brain trust.
>>
>> Anyone made the move to Hosted docs?  Have any lessons learned to share?
>> Success stories?  Horror stories?  Stuff you wish you'd done differently?
>>
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