LiquidClassifieds is a PostNuke-compatible classified ad program. It features easy to remember URLs, a side block (so every page of your PostNuke site can show the ads), categories, BBCode support, and anonymous posting. Email addresses of registered users are safeguarded. Unregistered users can post, but cannot edit ads. This release splits LiquidClassifieds into two pieces: a server, which retains the name LiquidClassifieds, and a client, which adopts the name LiquidClassifiedsXML. The server produces XML for use by the client.

The main purpose of this is to enable pooling of ads across Web sites, so that many small Web sites can, in effect, have the classified ad system of a large Web site. This release adds a “Post an Ad” image, a “Check the National/International Listings” link, a “Return to Regional Listing link”, a Gambling category, improved support for multi-site installations, improved support for subdirectory installations, improved support for standalone (non-Nuke) installations, and improved default text. Internationalization, new categories (Web Hosting, Web Design, Graphic Design, Programming, and Travel and Lodging), improved config file, and enhanced support for PHP-Nuke.

This version adds blocks to the package, improvs visibility of Network members, renames the configuration file to avoid confusion with the PHP-Nuke’s/PostNuke’s config.php, adds auto-detection of CMS type, improves handling of network and $docroot problems, renames Programming category to Software, and adds Barter, Housing, Humor, News, Personals, and Seeking Work categories.

Just had a very bad first-hand experience with a well-known local web hosting company, Webvisions Pte Ltd in terms of support & services provided. Can anyone perhaps recommend a good hosting company that will care for their clients and understand their needs. Though I am a qualified accountant, my interest is alway in the internet arena. I am not sure of your requirements from the hosting company.

If you don’t mind oversea webhosting company, netfirms.com is a good one. You might be thinking of web designing. This you have to find somewhere like all those designing companies. My website http://G-MARKETS.COM is hosted by netfirms. You have to pay a low amount for them to host without any banner from them. Their server is rank 8/10 by a few companies. Your domain name must be .com, .net or .org. It is a Canadian company with less downtime.

All e-mails will be forwarded to one e-mail account which you have to specify during registration. You can have anyth…@yourdomain.com for e-mails. i’m using webvisions for almost 2 years, support seems pretty good, response is almost immediate, i get my problems solved within 3 hours TOPS.

As someone that runs hosting I would recommend getting your own server, (Thats right im not trying to sell you something LOL) If you have a website thats just an everyday website, no problem. Buy a hosting account from someone. But if its mission critical, get your own server. The point being, say you buy a web hosting account from joe bloggs. No problem. Until they upgrade something and it goes wrong. It may be down for 5 mins, it may be an hour or more. Or the hard disk crashes, (Most won’t gurantee to provide backups) Where as if you have your own server and you are upgrading, you can make allowances etc..

As a hosting provider, at the prices I charge. I couldn’t guarantee to be up 100% of the time. In reality we are up 99.9% of the time. But we still can’t make the promise that we will be up 99.9% even. You know what computers are like, anything can go wrong and often does. We have backup etc.. so if one server goes down we can move across if need be. But we are in control, not you. And when do you start to move accounts across? You have to decide what a bad time scale is. If you want to be in control then I would get your own server. Every hosting company will say how good they are. But they are the ones with the power. And you can only take their word for it.

I also provide hosting and as much as we like to promise 100%, I would actually be more afraid of a company that said they are up 100% then the rest of them. Just back up yourself, and run a good business by checking often and when the your are fed up change. Eventaully you will find one that will let you sleep soundly at night. We had a hard drive crash due to a lightning storm. We had a direct hit (rare) and it fried a hard drive and the 2 backups simultaneously. This caused us to be down for one hour. The worst in 5 years. So 3 hours or 3 days your hosting providers’ servers were down, that is bad! Don’t worry, there is someone out there.

We’ve been tossing around the idea for a corporate watchdog site which will address certain consumer abuse issues and maintain a database, and we are positive that at some point it will invite corporate legal action. Obviously the thing to do is use pseudonyms and anonymous addresses. However, how can I prevent the web server from being taken down if the corporations start intimidating the web hosting company? Should I “go offshore” and find webhosting in the Netherlands or China?

The smallest target, but the biggest vulnerability, by far, is the domain name registrar. Are American domain registrars like Dotster ever bullied into disabling a site? Should I use an “offshore” registrar? There’s no such thing, and their legal agreement says, “Go Daddy explicitly reserves the right and sole discretion to: Censor any web site hosted on its Web Hosting servers that, in Go Daddy’s sole discretion, is deemed inappropriate.” It should be pointed out, still, that even domainsbyproxy.com will cave in, according to their TOS…

“To avoid any financial loss or legal liability (civil or criminal) on the part of DBP, its parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, shareholders, agents, officers, directors and employees;” It gives them a back door, but it’s still not clear whether they’ll back down when the first letter from an attorney arrives. Maybe the original poster should consider that. I wouldn’t agree that a person would “obviously” want to remain anonymous, if I was complaining, I wouldn’t. Only a court can shut you down, or the upstream if you violate the terms of service, what you propose doesn’t sound illegal to me. I wouldn’t have a problem hosting such a thing, provided the TOS were applied.

Is it not possible to use a MS access (.mdb) database with Coldfusion in DW? I have a .mdb and a DSN for it, but the DW interface in coldfusion is asking for an Remote Development Services (RSD) login and a ColdFusion Administrator URL, neither of which I have, and the web host says “We do not allow access to the RDS” and they don’t seem to know anything about a ColdFusion Administrator URL.

Does anyone know what is going on here? Has anyone successfully set up a datasource in ColdFusion DW using a .mdb database? Is there something I don’t know, or the web hosting service does not know? Can anyone recommend a first rate web hosting service that supports Dreamweaver users as well as both .asp and ColdFusion? Coldfusion requires a testing server on your own computer, you can’t use the web hosting service’s server as you can with ASP. It is a free download, all 150 Mb of it, but a pain in the neck to configure.

See my other post keyword “nightmare” for the answer to that one, also by the knowledgeable Ken Ford. I think that your best bet is to install CFMX locally and use it as your testing server. Most hosts disable RDS per MM’s recommendation. You should not do development work on a production server. That is why you have a testing server. In a lot of cases, if not most, the testing server is the computer that you are developing on. I do not know of any hosts that allow RDS, and I would not use them if they did.

A friend of mine has a small courier business (5 people) and wants me to find him an affordable host. He has been quoted £1500 PA, to £70 PCM by people who have approached him. I’ve seen lot’s of ad’s in .net magazine with much more sensible pricing, but how reliable are they? We only want email, domain name and web hosting. We already have a registered name which needs to be transferred. (Original company going bust before a site was ever put up.)

There won’t be a shopping cart as he doesn’t sell ‘things’, but he would like to have the ability to accept online requests for collections and deliveries etc. No need for ftp, asp etc. Not yet, anyway! Is there a company out there that can be reccomended by more than one person through experience? It pays to check what’s behind the company’s own domain, as there are far fewer genuine hosts, than there are resellers of hosting space.

A reseller isn’t obliged to tell you where he is hosting your site…..so you might get FastHosts without realising it! Not being a pro in this field, (but as always looking to learn,) do you know of any tutorials on doing this sort of thing? I know there are programs to trace routes, but the collection of numbers at the end of it would take a lot of sorting out for me. XCalibre should be good. I don’t use them, but I’m a passing acquaintance of the guy who runs it and he puts a lot of time and energy into the business and seems to actually care about his servers.

We use an external web hosting company to host our web site and e-mail. Unfortunately, we do not have a web mail option. I need to provide our traveling employees a way to check e-mail while on the road through a web mail type solution. My Exchange server is working perfectly. I setup the traveling employee’s addresses to send mail to the normal web hosting mailbox and to send a copy to the exchange server. The only problem that occurs is when they respond to and e-mail address that exists on the Exchange server.

It just gets routed to that mailbox and not the web hosting mailbox. I assuming this is because there is no need to send the e-mail out to the internet if the mailbox is local. Well, we just switched over to the new web hosting company and everyone is now able to send and receive without problems. We do have a dedicated WAN connection that can be used, that is what I have the server on now. I guess the short answer is that I don’t want to be the person responsible for making sure everyone’s e-mail is working properly. I already manage other mission critical servers and don’t need the trouble of one more.

I made the decision to use external hosting to eliminate having one more headache. But anyways, I hope I can figure this out. You will never be able to make your configuration work reliably and consistently – and it’s overly complicated. Better to host your own mail – there is no downside, and you can have people using OWA to access far more than just their inboxes. There’s no downside to hosting your own mail, and a lot of advantages.