chatbug Posted April 24, 2006 Posted April 24, 2006 I have been considering hosting my own blog for some time, and the recent Blogger.com publishing breakdown is prompting me to accelerate my plans. A friend of mine, a blogger using WordPress on her own host, suggested using TCH, which she is considering migrating to herself. But before actually purchasing any services, I have some questions that I just want to make sure of... It seems that your website will have no problem supporting phpBB2 (since this forum is running), WordPress or Movable Type. I am wondering if it's possible to run multiple blogs on this server using multiple MySQL databases? Is any limitation as to how many or how big MySQL databases Start Plan users can have? With regard to support for various functions of blogging... Do you support Apache mod_rewrite module (for clean URI's known as Permalinks) for WordPress? Do you support php mail function to, for example, email posts? Do you support Cron jobs for automatic backup of WordPress? Currently I have a number of blogs, most of them are PG-grade. I do have a mature-rated blog where I do write posts with adult theme and may contain nude and sexual images (not child/underage pornography, all within what's legally acceptable). Will this be acceptable for TCH? Or does TCH not allow any adult content? I have my own domain name with GoDaddy.com, how soon will configuration information be sent for me to update DNS for my domain names? That's all the questions I can think of right now. Will ask if I have any more questions. Thanks in advance! Quote
MikeJ Posted April 24, 2006 Posted April 24, 2006 We have many phpBB2, WordPress, and Movable Type users (the first two are available even through one click installers, MT is not due to it's licensing fee). As for mysql db's on the starter plan, your only limitation is the diskspace allotted (450 MB). As long as you stay under that, you can create new DB's. We do support modrewite, php mail, and cron jobs. Adult content is fine as long as it's legal content. You should be getting your welcome email with all the details you need to get your account and domains configured usually within 24 hours of signing up. Welcome to TCH, chatbug, in the event you decide to move forward with your plans! Quote
abinidi Posted April 24, 2006 Posted April 24, 2006 MikeJ covered your questions, but I wanted to welcome you to the forums, and let you know that I have a WordPress blog hosted with TCH on my own domain that uses permalinks, cron jobs, and php mail, so not only can I tell you that it should work "in theory", but it also works "in practice." Again I hope to welcome you to the family. TCH is a fantastic company. Perfect for multiple blogs! Quote
TCH-Don Posted April 24, 2006 Posted April 24, 2006 Welcome to the forums, chatbug I think you will like it here, we are just like family here helping each other. We even have a blog forum. Quote
abinidi Posted April 24, 2006 Posted April 24, 2006 I would make one additional comment. You mention that you have multiple blogs. The starter plan will NOT allow you to have different TLD's for your different blogs if they are all in the same starter plan. And TLDs can never point to a subfolder or subdomain. They have to point to the root index page for your site. If that doesn't make sense, post back, and I'll explain it in more detail. If you want to have multiple domains, you'd need a reseller account. Best wishes, Quote
chatbug Posted April 25, 2006 Author Posted April 25, 2006 Thanks, Mike & Don. I *think* I understand your point, Paul. So basically, if I have ****, mydomain.net, and mydomain.org, I can only set it up such that one of them actually serves my host content, right? Then, if I use **** as "the one", can I redirect the other domains I have to load as ****? Quote
chatbug Posted April 25, 2006 Author Posted April 25, 2006 Oops, didn't know i can't use my_domain_dot_com. That was what the **** were. Quote
TCH-Don Posted April 25, 2006 Posted April 25, 2006 You can have the .org parked on top of the .net by opening a help desk ticket so the .org will resolve to the same content. Quote
abinidi Posted April 25, 2006 Posted April 25, 2006 Thanks, Mike & Don. I *think* I understand your point, Paul. So basically, if I have ****, mydomain.net, and mydomain.org, I can only set it up such that one of them actually serves my host content, right? Then, if I use **** as "the one", can I redirect the other domains I have to load as ****? I'm not sure I totally understood what you are asking, but I think Don explained it right. Do you understand what Domain parking is? In case you don't, domain parking is when two domains resolve to the same content. So let's say you have example.com and example.org. Lets say that example.com is your main domain name, and you want to park example.org on top of it. You point both domains at the same server (given in your welcome email), and then you ask the help desk to park the .org on your account. Now when users enter example.com or example.org, they see the exact same content, but the URL they entered stays in the browser's address bar. So you have the same content, but you can access it with either URL. Does that answer your question? Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted April 25, 2006 Posted April 25, 2006 For an explanation of parked domains versus add-on domains (and domains in general) please see this post. Quote
chatbug Posted April 27, 2006 Author Posted April 27, 2006 Just thought I'd let everyone know... I have gotten a starter plan and I'm now working on migrating my blog. Got the "406 Not Acceptable" error for a while, trying to recategorize this particular posts in WP. Found a post in the forum that was quite useful! I'm enjoying my time with TCH so far! Quote
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