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| Cheiee | Date: Friday, 30 January 2015, 21:59 | Message # 1 |
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| As discussed recently, I'm giving serious consideration to moving our website and making a new one. Here's some information I've found for any that are interested:
- uCoz is a closed-source CMS. It is not possible to export/import users or their associated data. The uCoz framework also wouldn't correlate to the vBulletin database. (taken from a uCoz mods reply) - this would mean we can't export any usernames/logins/forum posts. I can manually move a lot of these. We can see later if it's possible for me to post them under members ID's.
- We can easily take all the media, news articles, films etc.
- I've been doing a lot of reading about EU hosts. Most of the articles I've come accross, list hosts like Go Daddy (US), 1+1 (UK) and loads more from Canada and the US, as the recommended hosts. They later mention that they receive bonus' and free stuff from the hosts they are promoting, very helpful!
- The most interesting one I've found so far seems to be Mavenhosting.com. They're based in France. They have French and English customer support, can be contacted by phone, live chat and email.
- Tranquility is a popular web name. There is a good option but I'm keeping it quiet until the site is up and running, so no peeking!
- We'll be using PHP.BB for the site.
- My knowledge of this is very small atm.
- I've had offers of help from Guildies, which is really great and much appreciated! I do however want to try and make the site myself and pick members brains when I get stuck.
- We'll be sticking with uCoz until all this is finalised.
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| Cheiee | Date: Friday, 30 January 2015, 22:52 | Message # 2 |
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| Some stuff I would love help with from our coding guru's would be:
- I want a separate page like we have now, for films. I'd really like to have some code, so when we embed a youtube video, it has a site themed border/box to sit inside. Much like you see on game streams (twitch overlays).
something like this, only the new site will be completely different, I just used our current set up as an example:
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| Avinia | Date: Saturday, 31 January 2015, 00:25 | Message # 3 |
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| I suggest Wordpress for fully functional site with phpbb forum. With plugins for WP, you can for example show last forum posts or have unified login (for both forum and site). Also, you should take a look at MyBB if you want only 1 platform.
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| Cheiee | Date: Saturday, 31 January 2015, 10:02 | Message # 4 |
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| Mavenhosting offer Wordpress hosting:
Do you think that would be a good choice? It seems they configure the server and I can do the admin work through the control panel. Do you think we can still add scripts, widgets and other stuff we want? I can always contact them and ask. If you think of any useful questions to ask them, please let me know.
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| Akkam | Date: Saturday, 31 January 2015, 19:37 | Message # 5 |
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| i have no idea this is good or bad , but
http://www.enjin.com/
my alts guilds site
http://www.pi-factorial.enjin.com/
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| Avinia | Date: Saturday, 31 January 2015, 20:31 | Message # 6 |
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| No need to look for WP hosting, you can install it on your own (99.99% cPanels has installing script). Just watch for cPanel, number of allowed database creation, php support and .htaccess.
I think https://mavenhosting.com/en/webhosting/ base plan is good, unless you really need over 100GB space (hosting videos guild server instead of youtube?).
Also, check GoDaddy deluxe plan. If they offer to choose between Linux and Windows platform, never choose Windows.
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| Cheiee | Date: Saturday, 31 January 2015, 20:53 | Message # 7 |
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| I already went with Maven, they are based in France and GoDaddy are in the US. We can always switch later. They gave me a temp address until the real one propagates but it's not working. Maybe we can have a nosey around together Avinia, once the Domain is up and running. I also choose the wordpress, pre-configured package. That can also be changed to your recommendation at a later date.
I've tried Enjin and the like in the past Akkam. They are good at what they do, my only issue with it, is 90% of Guilds go with them and the sites all tend to look extremely similar.
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| Cheiee | Date: Saturday, 31 January 2015, 20:55 | Message # 8 |
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That's what I see when I follow the temporary address. I emailed them earlier today to ask if I should just wait for the real one to become live but no response so far.
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| Pantos | Date: Saturday, 31 January 2015, 22:07 | Message # 9 |
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| W00t! I'm so excited  If there's anything you want my help with, I'm more than happy to do so 
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| Cheiee | Date: Saturday, 31 January 2015, 23:45 | Message # 10 |
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It's still not active 
I wouldn't mind waiting the 36-74 hours for it to propagate but because they sent me a temp address, I've been checking it all the time. Grrr. Avinia and Pantos, if you guys are on tomorrow, shall we all jump on TS3 and see what we can figure out? No worries if you're busy, there's no rush.
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| Avinia | Date: Sunday, 01 February 2015, 09:59 | Message # 11 |
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| I'll try to come before raid, will be visiting friends today.
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