recommended CMS for use on an irish ISP????

McGintyMcGoo

Greetings

I plan on doing a "favour" for a friend of mine by setting up his club website over the Christmas. He wants control of changes to the site so I'm giving him a CMS. He has yet to choose an ISP yet or register his domain name.

Two questions

(1): If this website has a forum and will store articles etc., do I need a hosting package that gives access to mySQL?

(2) Of the umpteen CMSs available, can you recommend one that is readily supported by irish ISPs?

Any help on the above would be really appreciated!

Merry Christmas

McGinty

mneylon

McGintyMcGoo wrote:

(1): If this website has a forum and will store articles etc., do I need a hosting package that gives access to mySQL?

Yes

McGintyMcGoo wrote:

(2) Of the umpteen CMSs available, can you recommend one that is readily supported by irish ISPs?

I can't speak on behalf of other companies, but we support several packages that you can install easily via our control panel.

McGintyMcGoo

Thanks Blacknight - sent you a PM.

rsynnott

Where has the flock of vultures gone? Blacknight seems to be the only one to bother these days

mneylon

rsynnott wrote:

Where has the flock of vultures gone? Blacknight seems to be the only one to bother these days

Rob - are you calling me a vulture??

Vultures are usually skinny...

rsynnott

No, no, in fairness you and the Hosting365 guy are usually fairly reasonable But a few months ago, there would have been about 15 people advertising their reseller accounts WITHIN HOURS.

Sposs

Me Waves the Hosting365 Flag - come to us were the best

You should be able to install any CMS no matter who you host with for good list of CMS's see http://www.opensourcecms.com/

rsynnott

Sposs wrote:

Me Waves the Hosting365 Flag - come to us were the best

Were you? Who is now?

CuLT

Sposs wrote:

You should be able to install any CMS no matter who you host with for good list of CMS's see http://www.opensourcecms.com/

Quoted for truth.

You don't need MySQL to run a forum system either, there's decent flat file forum systems floating about.

Though I'm not trying to sell hosting packages to people.

mneylon

CuLT wrote:

You don't need MySQL to run a forum system either, there's decent flat file forum systems floating about.

While you *could* use flatfile for a forum it wouldn't scale particularly well...

rsynnott

blacknight wrote:

While you *could* use flatfile for a forum it wouldn't scale particularly well...

I did that. It was in 1997; database hosting barely existed.

steve-hosting36

Some of the ISP's (I know Smart do) offer sql hosting bundled with access plans...

mneylon

By SQL I presume you mean MySQL?

rsynnott

You would appear to presume wrong:

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:yyw2o0gy720J:www.smarttelecom.ie/businessbroadbandinfo.htm+site:smarttelecom.ie+sql&hl=en&client=safari

dahamsta

rsynnott wrote:

Were you? Who is now?

LOL

Sposs

rsynnott wrote:

Were you? Who is now?

If i said "We Were" i would be speaking in the past tense meaning we are not anymore ,but i said "were" as in "we are" which is the present tense ,meaning we are.

Hope that clears things up

mneylon

Sposs - the humble apostrophe serves a purpose ...

Sposs

We don't get on

b3n

Hey

If he's looking for a light weight CMS that is easily customisable with a great community support site i highly reccomend php-fusion (www.php-fusion.co.uk)

light install , has a working forum , photo gallery articles , everything he needs. take a look at my site. thats what it is running off.

as for an ISP, tell your friend to google around, im sure he could find a host that could throw him a few gigs and MySQL access. then just get a domain at joker.com and park away

my 2c

dahamsta

PHP Fusion appears far too often on Bugtraq for my liking...