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Topic: Moving hosts. which database to take?

Posted By: india
Subject: Moving hosts. which database to take?
Date Posted: 22 January 2004 at 8:01am

Hi all,

I am moving hosts. Here is their plans

Feature
Galaxy cPanel
Galaxy Plesk

Webspace 150mb 200mb
Bandwidth /month 1500mb 2000mb
Control Panel cPanel Plesk
PHP, CGI, PERL Yes Yes
ASP No Yes
mySQL Unlimited - Yes Unlimited - Yes
PostgreSQL Unlimited - Yes No
FTP Accounts Unlimited - Yes Unlimited - Yes
Subdomains Unlimited - Yes No
Mail Accounts Unlimited - Yes Unlimited - Yes
Full DNS MX Management Yes No
Quality Support Yes Yes
Fantastico Yes No
Pre Installed Scripts Yes No

which should i take according to database ??

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India

http://mumbai2.netfirms.com

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 January 2004 at 8:15am

If you are wanting to run Web Wiz Forums, then neither of the plans would be any good as those databases are not supported.

It also looks like they could be Unix servers, again, Web Wiz forums, will not run on Unix/Apache/Linux.

Read the Forum Requirements page found in the left menu to get the server requiremenst for the forum software.

Web Wiz Forums will only run on Windows web servers running MS's IIS web services with ASP enabled. The databases supported are Access and MS SQL Server 2000, with MS SQL Server being the better database.

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Posted By: india
Date Posted: 22 January 2004 at 8:19am

Hi Borg,

yes i want to run Webwiz.

The cpanel wont work as because it doesnt support ASP.

About the Plesk, any wayout to convert the Access db to those ones they support ?

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India

http://mumbai2.netfirms.com

Posted By: india
Date Posted: 22 January 2004 at 8:20am

One more thing,

Cpanel is UNIX no doubt abt it

In plesk, even if its unix, they say it runs ASP by whatever way they do. maybe chillisoft or whatever or may windows server.

So we have to think about plesk.

on that how to convert to the db they support ?
So the options left are

mySQL Unlimited - Yes
PostgreSQL No

So how to get it working with mysql ?

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India

http://mumbai2.netfirms.com

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 January 2004 at 8:21am

Sorry, no, not without re-writting almost every file in the forum.

Read the requirements page, as those hosting plans will NOT run Web Wiz Forums.

Web Wiz Forums will only run on Windows web servers running MS's IIS web services with ASP enabled. The databases supported are Access and MS SQL Server 2000, with MS SQL Server being the better database.

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https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting
https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 January 2004 at 8:24am

Web Wiz Forums will only run under Windows, with the IIS web server, which also only runs on Windows.

Even if other OS's and web servers support ASP, with thrid party software like ChilliSoft, web wiz forums will NOT run.

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Posted By: india
Date Posted: 22 January 2004 at 8:25am

Well, ok, plesk host is windows hosting. i found out.

regarding access i will ask them. if it doesnt still

i am trying to find out converter's if there for access / mssql to mysql, hope i do get.

http://www.intranet2internet.com/public/default.asp?PAGE=software&DETAILS=DUMP - http://www.intranet2internet.com/public/default.asp?PAGE=sof tware&DETAILS=DUMP

these two are what i found yet

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India

http://mumbai2.netfirms.com

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 January 2004 at 8:29am

Let me write it in capitals and read slowly.

WEB WIZ FORUMS WILL NOT WORK WITH MYSQL.

A conversion tool will not work, the two hosting plans will NOT run Web Wiz Forums. You need to look else where for hosting or use a different forum package.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 January 2004 at 8:33am

I am thinking of making a version of Web Wiz Forums that will work with mySQL, but as every file will need to be re-written and much of teh forum code changed and extra security added to cope with mySQL it will be along way off at present as it would probally take me around 100 to 200 hours to do it properly.

Just changing the database to mySQL will not work.

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Posted By: india
Date Posted: 22 January 2004 at 8:42am

OK OK.

I will see if they have Access / MS SQL.

It won't be so easy to make wwf for mysql. along with the time, you need to upgrade it frequently, it would be very difficult.

If they don't give access, either change host or else convert to phpbb/ invision board BUT if i do so i will keep an option back to webwiz because when my old webhost is ok i will shift to them with access and webwiz

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India

http://mumbai2.netfirms.com