The Power!

[ztrauq]

This is sort of a review of TCH, but not eactly, so I didn't know whether to post it to the reviews forum or not.

 

Anyway, the other day, I was working on a project, and I decided that I needed a mailing list. In another ISP, or through my university, this is a daunting proposal, and usually requires emailing overburdened techs in the vain hope that they might eventually get around to implementing what you wanted.

 

With TCH, all you need to do is click on a link in CPanel, fill out a couple of form fields, and bam! Instant mailing list.

 

Want an email forwarder? It's there and working in 15 seconds. Want a whole new email address? It only takes slightly longer. Need a subdomain for that new project? It's up with an attendant FTP account almost instantly - no waiting, no limits, no hassles with busy techs.

 

I actually run a small, local webserver using Mandrake Linux, supposedly the simplest and easiest to configure with GUI everything - and yet, doing setup on that system is still much more complicated than just logging in to TCH and setting it up.

 

It's just that simple. With TCH, you don't just get some webspace and a slot to run CGIs in. You get the power to do just about everything you might ever have wanted to do on a webserver, and most of it takes but a few ckicks to set up.

 

Rock Sign

 

In that vein, though, I have a request for a future improvement - maybe add some more scripts to the add-on menu, if you can. It would be great to have something like MovableType that could be set up in a few clicks. I was able to download and install it fairly easily, but it would be even greater if someone who wanted a weblog or online column just needed to enter a few things in CPanel.

 

That's the power of TCH - it takes web hosting and makes it work. There's a reason I do all my important work on a Mac: it just works, it does what you expect it to do, and it allows you to do incredibly powerful things in an intuitive way.

 

And that's the reason that I use TCH.

[Deverill]

There are sometimes licensing restrictions on pre-setup and ready to install packages. Head Guru and the guys are often on the lookout for new things but some of these take awhile to work out the details with the authors.

 

If you have a favorite package I'm sure you could suggest they consider installing it for us, but make sure you do any groundwork you can to make it easier on them. For instance, if it's a Mcrosoft-only product don't bother because TCH is run on non-MS systems.

 

It's good to see that you were easily able to do what you wanted for your site. This is one of my favorite parts of TCH and that's the ability to add all the cool and powerful add-ons they offer without having to know much about their installation and configuration.