xoom Posted August 29, 2006 Share Posted August 29, 2006 Hi, I am in the market for a new hosting company and I just have a few questions regarding the semi dedicated hosting package you are offering. 1) Will this form of hosting allow for me to have command prompt access via ssh/telnet etc ? 2) Will i be able to setup things such as phpmailer or swift mailer rather than use the internal php smtp mail handler (as im planning to deploy a php based website) ? 3) I read a few posts regarding shoutcast and the response was you need a dedicated server. As this package is listed on the dedicated servers page will i be able to run a shoutcast server ? 4) I guess this is linked to the 1st question but if i have prompt access am i able to deploy software modules onto the server for example via the apt-cache mechanism ? i am also assuming these are linux based machines ? cheers Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Rick Posted August 29, 2006 Share Posted August 29, 2006 The Semi-Dedicated accounts are still on shared servers. You would need a dedicated server for the requirements you mention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted August 29, 2006 Share Posted August 29, 2006 Welcome to the forums. Yes they are Linux based servers but you may request a Windows based server if you go dedicated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted August 29, 2006 Share Posted August 29, 2006 Welcome to the forum, Bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Welcome to the forums Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xoom Posted August 30, 2006 Author Share Posted August 30, 2006 (edited) The Semi-Dedicated accounts are still on shared servers. You would need a dedicated server for the requirements you mention. Hi All, Thanks for the welcome. So bascially if i want to do all 4 then totally dedicated is the only way ? So if i wanted to deploy CMS Made Simple (http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/) is there anyway for me to do this without going fully dedicated ? Its an off the shelf content management system written in php with a mysql backend. But to do the install i must untar files on the server. So for the price of $220 per month this will get me a dedicated fully managed linux server ? cheers Bill Edited August 30, 2006 by xoom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 You would have no problems installing that CMS package on the TCH servers. You upload the tar file and extract it using the File Manager in cPanel. No shell access required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xoom Posted September 1, 2006 Author Share Posted September 1, 2006 (edited) ok that takes care of the putting the files on the server .... according to the install documentation i would need to do the following: Is all this possible via the CPanel ? Also within the CPanel are you able to edit the contents of files ? e.g. if i wanted to change a setting in the config files of this application. I have been mucking around with the demo cpanel and it wouldnt allow me to untar files im guess this is a restriction of the demo ? Requirements: PHP 4.2+ MySQL Apache webserver (or another php enabled webserver) 1. Untar the source package to document root dir or your webserver - cd DOCUMENT_ROOT - tar zxvf cms-VERSION.tar.gz OR check out the latest version from subversion - svn co http://svn.cmsmadesimple.org/cms/trunk ----- If your webserver has write access to your new CMS directory you can skip step 2 ------ 2. create an empty config.php file and make it writable by your webserver's user: - touch config.php - chmod 666 config.php 3. Create the cms database and grant a user rights to use it: - login to mysql: mysql -u root -p create database cms; grant all privileges on cms.* to cms_user@localhost identified by 'cms_pass'; quit 4. Fix the permissions on the cache and template compilation directories so the web server has access to them. - chmod 777 tmp/templates_c - chmod 777 tmp/cache - chmod 777 uploads - chmod 777 uploads/images optionally, if you would like to be able to install modules via the admin panel: - chmod 777 modules 5. Open up your new CMS site in your webbrowser and you will be guided through a short install. 6. After install, for security sake, you should set your config.php back to a read-only state. - chmod 444 config.php 7. To reach the admin of your site, point your browser to: http://yoursiteurl/admin/ Edited September 1, 2006 by xoom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Yes on both questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-JimE Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Welcome to TCH Bill and yes, you can do all of thoose steps without a problem Any more questions, please do ask JimE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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