Ecoli Posted June 30, 2004 Posted June 30, 2004 Hi there, I am looking into hosts for a client, and am pretty sure I want to steer them away from their initial choice and towards TCH. There was one feature on the other host, which I would like to make sure is possible using TCH. The host, Hostbaby.com, which is tailored towards bands/musicians, had a php-based news/journal script installed. I don't see that you offer anything like this, but I should be able to install something similar (or the same one, if publicly available), right? The one thing that was possible on that host, that I'm not sure is universal, is that you are able to pull any artist's news to any domain hosted by them. So for example, if I have two seperate accounts on the same host: - recordlabel.com - bandone.com , which contains a news db using their php script From a page on recordlabel.com, I am able to also pull up the news file that belongs to the band on bandone.com and post it on that site as well. Is this something that's possible with TCH? I don't know if things have to be configured in a certain way to allow this sort of cross-communication between hosting accounts. Or if it requires a reseller package, or.... Basically they are going to be hosting multiple band sites as well as the record label site, and they want the news that each band posts on their site ALSO accessible to the main record label site. Any input on this would be of great help. I am about to transfer two of my own domains over to you guys, and want to be confident in moving my clients over as well. Thanks in advance! Skye Quote
TCH-Rob Posted June 30, 2004 Posted June 30, 2004 Skye, Multiple sites would probably be best on a reseller package. I think RSS feeds can accomplish the news porting to the main site and you should be able to use the software they have or something similar. Others may have more ideas so hang tight. Quote
Ecoli Posted June 30, 2004 Author Posted June 30, 2004 I have never set up RSS feeds, but I imagine that this is something accessible to someone who is otherwise tech-savvy (me)? Are there specific advantages to using a reseller package (like shared directories that would make it easier to share data amongst the sites -- just fishing here, I am new to most scripting stuff)? Thanks for the help so far, I am rushing to figure all this out so I can tell them what hosting package to go for and that it will definitely work for all the features they want! (esp shared news / etc) Skye Quote
Ecoli Posted July 1, 2004 Author Posted July 1, 2004 Oh yeah, and also, one feature they offered that I am trying to find a substitute for, is a concert calendar. Basically it's a simple db-driven script that displays all upcoming events/shows and automatically bumps off past dates. I don't know if it's a publicly available script, or something custom, but if I go with TCH instead of the other host, I am responsible for coming up with a suitable replacement. Any ideas? thx again skye Quote
TCH-Rob Posted July 1, 2004 Posted July 1, 2004 Are there specific advantages to using a reseller package One big one. You can only have one domain hosted per account. I will look for you and see if I can assist on anything to fit the calendar bill. Quote
Ecoli Posted July 1, 2004 Author Posted July 1, 2004 Right, I mean besides that. Otherwise, if there is no advantage to a reseller package as far as my requiresments above go, I think they'd prefer to have individual hosting packages (ie the individual bands would be responsible for their own hosting/billing/etc)... Regardless, they would all be hosted on TCH. Mainly I need to know if a reseller setup vs individual hosting packages would influence my ability to implement any of the above (sharing databases/etc) or if it even matters. Thanks Skye Quote
TCH-Rob Posted July 1, 2004 Posted July 1, 2004 Skye, It matters not. You would still manage the accounts separately to implement this kind of procedure. Quote
taznumber1 Posted July 1, 2004 Posted July 1, 2004 I would believe it would be possiable to share the information that you are looking for on two different hosting accounts. The first way would be just create a simple pages that has the news on one of the hosts. Then using cgi scripts retrieve that news pages and format it to fit the page you want it on. This would be a fairly simple thing. The second way is to inside cpanel create database accounts and assign passwords, and set the allowed host to the server name of the other server that it is on. Then using the php they would use the host information that was just created, and the server address it was created on. And example of this is the hostname is host1.totalchoicehosting.com , create a user called band1_mainhostingusername and assign then a password. Then on host 2 make your php script connect to host1.totalchoicehosting.com using band1_mainhostingusername and the assigned password. I do this one because I have a test server at my house that I use when I am working on my site and I always connect from my test site to my database hosted on TCH. The thrid way is to do RSS Feed but I am not that fimiliar with that one to help you out. Quote
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