Want To Start A Blog/forum Site
Oct 8, 2008if somebody wants to start a blog/forum site, what are some certain softwares they would need to create their site other than a sitebuilder of course
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Blog,forum Or Custom Page. Who Uses Most Resources
Nov 13, 2007WHT is after what I've heard one of the biggest webmaster forums. So I am asking this. Lets say you have 1000 concurrent users all the time. What is less resources using.
Vbulletin forum
Wordpress
custom made page
All 3 of them can equally fullfill what they are intended for.
Vbulletin - I had it but it uses too much resources, I need strong dedicated servers too keep it up.
Wordpress - never used it, but its coded by experts so it should use less resources than all other blog softwares. I need to know if this need dedicated or semi-dedicated to hold 1000 concurrent users.
Custom made page - hire a code to make a page. But custom coders cannot be better than Wordpress coders and therefore not as good as coded as WP?
I've Wordpress Blog And Forum - How To Allocate Them On Server
Mar 20, 2007Basically I installed wordpress in the same mysql as forum... but wordpress uses different username to connect to it. I wonder if there is any security risk associated with this, like would it be better to move out wordpress on to a different db? what about speed? what if my forum receives allot of mysql usage?
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Apr 20, 2008A friend of mine is interested in starting a large internet forum to discuss hunting, fishing, target shooting, and other outdoors activities. He has asked me for some help in getting things started but I must admit that this is an area where I don't have a lot of experience. I've been involved with computers for many years now but mainly with general PC repair and the desktop support side of things.
I know these questions are rather general and may be hard to answer. I'm just trying to get some opinions that I can pass along to my friend.
1. What all would be involved in setting up a forum? I understand that he would likely use vbulletin or phpBB as the forum software.
2. Would he need to build a dedicated server and have it set up in a data center or could he use one of the "Unlimited" web hosting packages from a company such as Godaddy.com?
3. What type of costs are involved and what should he expect to pay on a monthly basis?
Godaddy has hosting packages for $14.99/month with 300GB of space and 3,000GB of transfer. Would a package like this work?
As you can see I'm really lost when it comes to starting up something like this.
How Effective Can Be Lighttpd 4 My Site ( Forum + Filesharing Site )
Jun 16, 2008I run basicly run two main site.
1.Forum big one .
2.File and image sharing site.
(image sharing site generates thumbnails which produces lots of hits)
In these conditions how much difference can lighttpd can do as compared to apache for keeping my 600 MB Ram VPS host constant.
First Blog/Site
Jan 10, 2008I'm thinking about puttin up my first blog/site on news since I check news through the whole day anyways so it would be easy for me to manage as my first site. I was wondering how much bandwidth i need? I have a Hostgator "Baby" account [url]and was wondering if this is enough? Eventually I wanna add more sites and I'm worried about the space/bandwidth .. is it hard moving site from 1 server to another? From what I've seen there is a folder for the websites in the ftp but I know that hostgator does the wordpress installing so I'm not sure if I just copy the folder and move it to a bigger server will it save the site/plugins/etc.. the way it was as if it was on hostgator.. hope that makes sense also, usually how long is it to move a site from one server to another?
View 8 Replies View RelatedStarted A Vbulletin Forum And Site
Apr 16, 2008I am about to purchase a vbulletin license in a few days and start a site. I will start the forums first and get the talking going and build the main site afterwards. Of course the site will suck at first as far as visitors. But what is a good hosting plan to support me for a good little while? I project we'll get up to 150 active users at a time within the first 6 or 7 months with about 50 browsing the main site....(nothing wrong with wishful thinking )
So, what hosting plan is best to hold me for a while? Not which company, but what specs of the plan are best to hold 100 active users at a time? I dont want to continue to upgrade my hosting plan alot. I'd rather just buy a nice shared hosting plan now to hold me for at least a year or so....until I have to upgrade.
For those who have dedicated servers, at one point is it time to upgrade to a dedicated server?
Hosting Site & Forum On Different Servers. How
Jan 22, 2008Let's say I want to host DOMAIN.COM on one server, and FORUMS.DOMAIN.COM on another server.
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Sep 9, 2008I've been with Bluehost for over three years. I've really not had any big problems with them. But I've learned that people usually don't have problems with hosts unless they actually have a website that has good traffic.
Well, as my main site has grown, I think I'm outgrowing my host.
I have a forum (SMF) with over 1500 members and close to 80K posts. It's got a good core of very active members. Doing well. The main part of the site is on WP platform.
Friday, I try to bring up the forum and POOF! It's not there. Just a blank screen. No error, no nothing. Call support and they have no clue, but the support guy comments out a line in one of my SMF files and the site comes back up. Don't ask me how he knew to comment out that line or anything.
Things go fine for a few days, then yesterday P.M. I start getting "exceeding CPU" errors and then a 500 error. Keep in mind, I've done nothing to my site in these days to cause any of this or any changes to even make me suspect anything.
Called support two times last night and finally was told to submit a ticket to their scripting department. I could see the PHP errors in my CP and I knew it was something wrong on their end, but no one could figure it out. Well, I haven't heard from support but my site's back up today.
I'm just thinking it may be time to consider switching. Not sure I really want to deal with that, but I'm having more errors and glitches with them in the last year.
I know HostGator gets mostly great reviews. Will my experience there be any different though?
I know lots of people here ask for web host suggestions. I could really use some guidance, not just in companies, but the things I need to keep in mind about my site in particular that would help me choose one.
Can I Start A Wallpapers Site Using A Shared Host
Mar 27, 2007I want to know that can I start a female celebs wallpapers site using a shared host or should I use vps or share a dedicated server from start?
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May 27, 2008with this being my first website goddady's website tonight or there blog site plan seem pretty good as I do not know how to build a professional looking website nor do I have a knowledge of HTML. Are there other hosts that offer better services such as these?
Also I would want to register with 1&1 as to register privately is free but with godaddy it costs around $15 and I've heard of godaddy stealing persons domains when they haven't even expired yet i.e. familyAlbum.com?
Is it allowed for instance to register my domain name with 1&1 and host my site with godaddy?
Blog Got Hacked
Feb 8, 2009One of my wordpress blogs got hacked and my site is redirecting to a different site.... When I check the phpmyadmin, there is another sql server that I am not familiar with... and there are around 17 table... I cannot delete the tables... I already contacted my host and still waiting for response...
The installed database is "information_schema (17)"
Are you familiar with this?
Where To Host My Blog
Mar 5, 2009I recently had issues with HostGator and left them and now I am with MediaTemple... They are absolute crap. My site goes down with "sql errors" every day and it is pathetic.
What is the most cost effective host with the best speed and uptime for my blog?
Web Host For Asp.net Blog
Jun 12, 2009I am an asp.net developer and want to host my blog. Which hosting provider will be ideal for asp.net blog? I have also seen that some of hosting providers provide blog hosting for blogengin.net or dasblog, should I go for them or should I go for the blog engine that I have built my self?
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Mar 18, 2008Simple web site:
www.oldWithoutMoney.com
Implemented WordPress a little while ago via cPanel's Fantastico widget -- vanilla implementation.
Just about every day, I get spam comments in the blog's Inbox for moderation.
Was wondering if folks had general tips on how to prevent or minimize this sort of nuisance and make the blog less bot-accessible, and/or where I might read up on ways to do so.
Hosting For Blog
Mar 23, 2008to migrate a friends Blog from a pre-hosted service to his own domain and hosting. A domain is no problem for me to get but hosting seems to have changed a bit since I last purchased it all myself. Looks like all the old hosting companies I used to use have disappeared, and many are offering monster deals that I really don't need for a Blog.
What I'm looking for is something cheap and simple. It's a British Blog but I would prefer American hosting just due to the cheaper conversion rates. I have no real preferences, just enough to host a Blog and a few images. What I would like is a host that is easy to upgrade should the Blog grow and need more for it.
Hosting For Blog
Jun 19, 2007I am in the process of having a blog developed the following capabilities:
1. Google sitemap - will be generated and pings google after every post you make
2. Will make the links of the blog to be static links with permalinks.
3. Will add social bookmarking facility to posts( possibility to add to delicious, ****, furl, etc)
4. 'Email this post' feature
5. 'Print this post' feature
6. Show how many times a post has been viewed
7. Will install Google adsense plugin, if required.
8. Show 'Recently posted' posts in sidebar
9. Add RSS feeds to blog [Bloglines, Add to Google, My Yahoo, My MSN, Newsgator, etc]
10. Will set up the blog to ping important services when you write a post
11. Change header and color scheme to match your current site 12. Install plugin to automatically hyperlink URL's
13. Install contact form plugin for drop-in form in any new/existing post/page.
14. Install external links plugin that adds a class="external" to all outbound links.
15. Will install Google Analytics Plugin For WordPress
16. Install plugin that shows Next/Previous Post in same Category
17. Site unavailable plugin - useful when you want to make your site unavailable for maintenance.
18. Install wordpress database backup plugin
19. Wysiwyg Editor plugin - provides a much better editor than the one that comes with wordpress
20. Will install Title tag optimization plugin so that you can specify customized title for each post.
21. Will install Meta tags optimization plugin to enable you to specify customized META DESCRIPTION, META KEYWORDS AND OTHER META TAGS FOR each post.
registering the domain with the host or should this be done elsewhere? If it shoudl be doen elsewhere where should it be done?
Blog Website
Sep 27, 2007im using blogge! where can i find cheap hosting services?
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Oct 10, 2007I'm currently on a 256mb RAM VPS plan with CPanel included at GoDaddy and hosting a wordpress blog which gets around 3000 uniques a day. My blog won't even last a day before the server crashes.
Now I've turned almost all plugins and turned off mail services and optimised MYSQL and HTTPD according to some articles on this forum, so I'll see how it turns out tomorrow. But I've still got a lot of functionality I want to add to the site.
It seems to be that this basic VPS plan is inadequate for my demands. Would anyone agree with this? (I got one opinion from another forum, saying it's definitely inadequate)
Server Specs For BIG Blog
Mar 11, 2008What specs would I need to host a blog that gets 20k uniques a day?
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Oct 9, 2009I'm going to be setting up and hosting a high-profile wordpress blog. It'll probably get around 800.000 pagehits per month. The client has been asking about Peak Capacity, Throughput and whatnot and I'm honestly am not sure what to tell him.
So far I've been maintaining a 1and1 windows 2003 dedicated server with about 20 websites, but none which comes close to that amount of traffic.
My plan is to go for a Linux box with the following specs:
CPU: Opteron 1218 HE
CPU Details: 2 x 2.6 GHz
RAM:4 GB RAM
Hard Disks: 2 x 400 GB (RAID 1 Software)
Bandwidth: 100Mbps
Wordpress Blog Hosting
Jun 3, 20091. which web hosting provider is good for starting web hoster like me?
2. i need web host who support wordpress as blog software and web hosting must be fair price and my blog contain only 10mb size and bandwidth may 1gb/month intial.
2. can i use more than one blog in same domain, if ok in that each blog can have their own wordpress blog software i.e i can instal more than one wordprss software in same domain and web host?
3. if i accept free domain register from my web hoster, then if i transfer my blog after 5 months or 9 months to different web host provider can i use same domain or it is not possible?
Blog Commenting And Your Host
Apr 16, 2009a while back I left some handmade comments in some computer related blogs
not even close to spam but I put the keyword into the name field
then....a few days later I found a .txt file named blogspam on my hosting account.. anybody had a similar experience...
How To Migrate Wordpress Blog
Sep 22, 2009I am hosting my wordpress blog on a web hosting that is not that reliable as it go down once in a while for few hours without any prior notification of sheduled maintenance.
However, i have a question. How do i migrate a wordpress blog with everything intact.. data, information, application, plugins, graphics and domain name?
Customized Hosting For My Blog
Jun 10, 2009Currently I am hosted with Aquarius Storage, who are a fantastic company and I will be posting a review of them soon, but however that is not my point. Due to the recent tragedy of the HyperVM creator committing suicide, I will have to pay more because AQ is switching to Virtuozzo. Because I simply run a somewhat large, growing blog, paying 36$ per month is kind of outrageous.
To make things short, I need a good host, that was superb uptime, and is optimized for a WordPress blog that gets around ~5k uniques, ~30k pagehits, ~100k spider hits per month. (all figures are growing, of course), and for the site to be optimized to be speedy fast.
Unbiased Blog About Web Hosting
Jan 4, 2009Well it occured to me just now that I think this might be a challenge: do you know any absolutely unbiased web hosting blog?
Without a doubt WHT is a truly unbiased discussion forum for the web hosting industry. However when it comes to blog and the luring big affiliate bucks more and more hosting companies are offering, I doubt there would be ANY truly unbiased 3rd party blogs / info sites on hosting industry.
Host For Wordpress Blog
Jun 25, 2008I am hosting a Wordpress blog that currently uses 30GB of bandwidth per month. I want to introduce a forum as well so will probably need 50GB per month for now. But would like it expandable to 100GB in the future.
My requirements are:
No hidden CPU Limitations/No unreasonable resource usage restrictions.
Equipped to handle large surges of traffic.
No Overselling, able to use full allocation.
AND PROBABLY:
LiteSpeed - Does it really make a difference?
I have looked at MediaLayer, but they only provide upto 50GB transfer.
SecureServerTech looks good but uptime is only around 99%
At the moment Steadfast Networks looks the best.
My budget will be $20 for 50GB tranfer and $40 for 100GB of transfer, but this is not fixed and I would prefer quality over price.
Control panel does not mater but uptime does.
Should I Use Shared Hosting For My Blog
Sep 11, 2008a Shared hosting should be enough for my wordpress blog site? It gets about 300 to 1000 hits per day.
Right now it's currently hosted on my loaded dedicated server and it's running very slow. Do you guys think I should order a shared hosting just for this blog alone?
Build A Datacentre Blog
Jun 13, 2007If you've ever wanted to know how to build your own DC, the nice chaps at Pipe Networks in Australia have been blogging about their experiences building their own.
Quote:
The facilities staff at Pipe Networks is live-blogging its bid to build a new data center in just 60 days. The effort began back on April 16 with an empty room in Brisbane, Australia, and is entering the stretch run with a completion deadline of 9 am EST Friday (June 15). Pipe Networks has put the entire effort online, providing a window into the data center fit-out process with daily updates via Pipe Networks' DC3 blog, a live webcam of the data center in progress and a checklist of key items and their stage of completion.
(currently slashdotted, try again later)
Accessing Blog On Localhost
Aug 18, 2007I installed Wordpress on a local install of Apache so that I can play around with it and get my design down before I put it on the web. I can get to the admin and do everything, but I can't actually get to the site. I had an index.html in my htdocs directory, which was deleted, but now when I go to localhost, it just shows the directory.
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Mar 14, 2006I am looking for a cheap host that will allow adult orientated discussions and advertising. There wont be any actual porn on the site or at least not hosted on the account.
I was looking at a small orange and it looks like they allow light adult material but I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions.
