Oscommerce, Multiple Domains, And Email Questions

[mp_at_fuse]

Hi, I'm considering moving my website to you from my current Australian host because you've been recommended *very* highly by a friend who has shunted quite a few businesses your way over the last 3 years.

 

The site is mostly straightforward HTML, but I'm running a shop using OSCommerce, and it's taken a while to get it all together and working. I'm reluctant to move it over without some certainty of functionality. Are you aware of any of your users who are running OSCommerce shops on your servers? Have there been any issues I should be aware of?

 

I have another domain that points directly to this OSCommerce shop (ie to mainsite.com.au/catalog). Is it possible to maintain this arrangement with TCH?

 

And finally, do you really mean unlimited mail accounts, or are you talking about aliases? My current provider limits me to 5 POP accounts.

 

With many thanks in advance for your time.

[TweezerMan]

Welcome to the TCH forums, mp_at_fuse!

 

TCH servers can and do run OSCommerce. It can be installed from CPanel, but I suspect you will probably want to install OSCommerce yourself. There are TCH customers who use OSCommerce, but I don't know who they are off the top of my head. Maybe one or more of them will see this thread and post about their experience with OSCommerce.

 

With a virtual hosting account, pointing a domain at a subfolder of your TCH-hosted web site (mainsite.com.au/catalog) would be a violation of the Acceptable Use Policy. You would have to purchase a reseller account in order to do this.

 

Unlimited mail accounts really means unlimited mail accounts. The practical limit here is that your account must not cause load issues on the server or negatively impact other users on the same server as you, but there is not a numerical limit on the number of e-mail accounts that you can set up.

 

Hope this helps...

[mp_at_fuse]

<snip>

With a virtual hosting account, pointing a domain at a subfolder of your TCH-hosted web site (mainsite.com.au/catalog) would be a violation of the Acceptable Use Policy. You would have to purchase a reseller account in order to do this.

<snip>

 

Hi David, thanks for the response. Seems to me that it's be a lot cheaper just to get the second domain hosted as a separate account and just cross-reference the hyperlinks, no?

[TweezerMan]

Yes, two virtual hosting accounts generally are cheaper than a single reseller account.

 

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "cross-reference the hyperlinks", but if you mean just have regular hyperlinks between the accounts, you might think about just parking the second domain on top of the first one. It would save you the cost of a second virtual hosting account, but it could not point directly at your OSCommerce store (it would point at the main page of your account).

[TCH-Rob]

Welcome to the forums mp_at_fuse. I have used osCommerce on several sites and can attest to the fact that it works well on our servers.

[TCH-Thomas]

Welcome to the forum, mp_at_fuse.

[stevevan]

Welcome to the forums!

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the TCH forums, mp_at_fuse

[TCH-Don]

Welcome to the TCH forums, mp_at_fuse

[questionmark]

"TCH servers can and do run OSCommerce. It can be installed from CPanel, but I suspect you will probably want to install OSCommerce yourself."

 

Hello

Could you please explain why someone would want to install OSCommerce themselves, rather than through Cpanel? Because they already have it up and going? Or is it just easier to do yourself instead of through Cpanel?

Thanks

[TCH-Bruce]

You would want to install it yourself to be sure you have the most recent version of OS Commerce. cPanel does not always containg the latest versions.

[questionmark]

Ok, thank you for replying. cpanel automatically updates itself when a newer version comes out, correct? But the individual componentson cpanel do not? So the thing to do would be to check the version of whatever you want to run or use(whatever)(like OScommerce) on cpanel against the newest version of what is on the OScommerce website?

Thanks in advance for any reply. Sory if this is a stupid or redundant question.

[TCH-Bruce]

That is correct.

[questionmark]

Wow,

Thanks again for replying. It was up before this ancient computer could even show me my question posted.