aaron_ginn

The TOS state that TCH will not provide support for Wordpress which is why I proceeded to find a solution myself. Under what conditions will TCH assist with Wordpress related issues?

Can you elaborate on what the problem was and how TCH corrected it?

The Php upgrade caused my Wordpress-based blog to begin giving me the following error: Fatal Error: Allowed memory size ... My server was upgraded yesterday and I immediately began receiving emails from users that they were having problems. The solution is to add the following line to your .htaccess file in your public_html directory: php_value memory_limit 32000000

Thank guys. It sounds more and more like Mu might be overkill for what I want to do. I doubt there will be more than 10 blogs, so I don't know that Mu would buy me much in terms of ease of administration. I'll have to think about this some more. Thanks, Aaron

So that thread seems to indicate Wordpress Mu can be run on a shared server as long as I'm not using subdomains and I don't exceed my allotted bandwidth. Is that correct?

I'm considering starting a project for my church in which we set up blogs for each team or group in the church in order to keep the members informed. Something like Wordpress Mu seems perfect for this in that I can administrate all the blogs from a single installation and take the issue of security out of the hands of the users and let them concentrate solely on content. I'm assuming I would need to get a reseller account to do something like this, or do I need to go to a completely dedicated server? I don't anticipate traffic to be very high at all (at least, not at first), so that's not really a consideration. Is anyone running Wordpress Mu on a TCH server? What things do I need to consider to get this up and running? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Aaron

What about challenge-response systems like Spam Arrest? These are guaranteed to eliminate 100% of spam by creating and automatically maintaining email whitelists.

Thanks Rob. I'm totally new to this so I've obviously got a lot of questions. It looks like I should spend some time at the osCommerce sire reading the documentation and the forums. I know everyone here says this, but this place is terrific and the service is top-notch!

Hi, I'm planning on starting an online business within the year, and I have a few questions about how to get started. First, I already have my personal site hosted by TCH and I've been completely satisfied with the service, so I'm planning on having TCH host my business domain as well. Do I need to sign up for a business type plan, or can I use a plan like the Silver Plan that my other site currently uses? What do other business owners here use? Any recommendations? Second, I'm planning on using osCommerce for my store. I understand I need a merchant account to accept credit card transactions. Are there only certain banks that I can use with osCommerce? Is there a useful FAQ on setting up a merchant account, preferably related to osCommerce? Finally, I need an SSL certificate. How do I go about obtaining one? Are there any FAQs on this that are particularly helpful? This is a completely new experience for me. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot, Aaron

Bill, I know I said I wasn't going to comment on this subject again, but... I just wanted to say how impressed I am with this decision. While I thought there was some justification for the confusion regarding the contest, I never thought that TCH did anything underhanded or duplicitous, and I certainly don't think an additional prize was necessary to demonstrate what a great company TCH is. The decision to award a second-place prize is a prime example of how TCH is head and shoulders above any other hosting company I've ever used and goes above and beyond to satisfy their customers. I hope you know we appreciate it! Thumbs Up

Bill, As I stated in the previous thread, I understand your frustration; however, calling your paying customers "sore losers" and "whiners" is really unprofessional, IMHO. TCH would not exist without these people. I was one of the ones that questioned the way the contest went, not because I had any illusions about winning - my responses were not nearly clever enough - but because the contest ended up being something far different than what the rules stipulated. You're certainly free do choose whatever criteria you want to give away the prize - it's your money after all - but I feel your reaction to the questioning of the winning entry was out of line. You certainly should have expected some of this type of reaction as you say it has happened with every contest in the past. The way you responded by closing and deleting the previous thread was tantamount to taking your ball and going home. That's all I'm going to say on this subject. As I said earlier, congratulations to the winner.

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Warning: Neanderthals hunting ahead!

Here's another one... "Arkansas resident Billy Smith waits for his dinner." BIG apologies to any Arkansas residents reading this!!!

I suck at Photoshop, so I'll just do my caption here... "Former disgruntled McDonald's employee, Billy Smith, reveals the ugly truth about the company's primary source of beef."

Another good free FTP client is FileZilla: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net Aaron

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> I choose the PITA. The rest of you *will* be assimilated. :-) C'mon, you're a geek! You teach computer science. You're not like most people. Seriously, I don't want to talk anyone out of using Linux. If someone wants to check it out, let them. It's not going to cost anyone anything other than some hard drive space and the time to install and administer it. I used it for over three years, so I have some perspective on the issue. In the end though, Linux simply didn't do what I needed it to do. YMMV.

No offense taken! Of course, this is all my own opinion. In fact, it has been about two years since I last looked at Linux seriously, but your arguments were the same ones I heard even back then. The Linux community is notorious for brushing aside issues that should have been taken care of a long time ago - like TT fonts, for instance, simply because they either think they are unimportant and they just live with them, or they want to move on to other things. And I never said Linux was lacking in applications. It's more a matter of fact that many of the applications available are either very hard to use for someone non-technical, they have very poor documentation, or they are half-finished. Take the GIMP, for example. The GIMP is a very powerful app. However, the interface for it is extremely non-intuitive compared to something like Photoshop Elements and the documentation for the GIMP is scant as well. Is Photoshop Elements worth the $35 - $40 for those benefits? Well, that's something that each user has to decide for himself. As far as Mozilla, I'm well aware of how nice a browser it is as I use it on Solaris exclusively. If it wasn't for Mozilla, I'd be stuck with an old version of Netscape 4 for browsing. I also know that the Windows plugins in general seem to work better than the non-Windows ones. Perhaps this isn't the case anymore, but it was when I ran Linux, and it still is today for Solaris. In my own case, one of the primary reasons I use the computer, DV, is practically non-existant on Linux. The IEEE 1394 drivers are poor and the editing suites are extremely limited compared to what's available on Windows or Macs. Certainly, my case is probably not very common yet, but it's just one example of a task that is becoming very common that is difficult or impossible on Linux. Believe me, I personally can't wait for the day when anyone can walk down to CompUSA and browse the Linux desktop section. IMO, the primary reason why XP is so nice and stable is that Linux has pushed Microsoft to make it that way. I also think that anyone who is technically savvy enough to run their own website can install and run Linux. If you can live with some of these issues, Linux can make a great desktop. I personally wouldn't want to use it as my primary desktop, but maybe it's me that's missing something.

Okay, I'm a latecomer to this thread, but I'll throw in my $0.02. Unless you're a geek - and I mean that in the nicest way - that likes to tinker with computers or you're dirt-poor, Linux is a PITA as a desktop OS. Now I'm a geek, so I speak from experience. I'm an electrical engineer at Motorola, and I my only computer there is a Solaris worstation, so I am a certified *NIXer. But at the end of the day, I just want something that works, and that I don't have to fuss around with. That, for me, is a Windows XP box. I used to dual-boot with Linux - first Red Hat, then Mandrake - but I just became fed up with the variety of applications that always felt half-finished. There are certainly some very powerful applications, like the GIMP for example, but they are generally less polished and not as feature-full as their Windows counterparts. Additionally, Linux often is not able to take advantage of some of the more recent advances in hardware - IEEE 1394 (FireWire) being a prime example. Throught no fault of it's own, Linux always seems to be a few years behind the latest on the Windows or Mac side of things. It's not that it isn't capable; it just doesn't have enough leverage. Browsing is a pain in Linux. While there are capable browsers like Mozilla or Konqueror, the web has become largely a Windows (or Mac) playground. Many sites nowadays offer Windows Media or Quicktime only multimedia clips. Flash and Java plugins on Linux are always behind the curve. There are workarounds for some of these, but they are largely hacks that sometimes work and sometimes don't. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot about Linux to like - it's free, it's never going to be end-of-lifed, and there's a big community of people that are always willing to help you out. I'm fairly certain that within five years, all the Solaris boxes at my job will be replaced with Linux workstations. Hopefully, Linux will begin to make significant headroads into the mainstream by then. I just don't think it's ready for Grandma at this point.

If you're looking for an affordable, efficient anti-virus software package, look no further than AVG. Cost - Free OS - Windows only Company - Grisoft Site - http://www.grisoft.com This is a sweet little package that is as good as any of the big boys (Norton, McAffee), IMO. Updates are almost always available immediately after a new virus hits the scene. It has an auto-update utility to check and update itself periodically, and it seems have a much smaller memory and CPU footprint than something like Norton (I don't have any hard data on this. It just feels faster to me). Aaron