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[TheWingThing]

Hello there,
I want to redo my site (http://www.stanmed.net) using PHP-NUKE. I can only afford to have a shared server, prolly from some VDI or Alabanza host.

How much system resources will php-nuke and addons consume for a site with 500 to 1000 users? Can I run it on a shared server? I cant afford to get a dedicated server.

Will the hosts allow it - VDI and Alabanza based hosts?

TIA.

Wing.

[kunal]

You shouldnt have a problem with any host

[spcover]

I've got two Nuke sites running (ScarsdaleToday.com and WestchesterWire.com) on Alabanza-based servers and they run fine without any problems at all.

Just make sure your provider isn't using a very old version of PHP (v3.07 or earlier) and you should be fine.

I don't have anywhere near 500 or 1000 users/members, but I do get thousands of visitors a month.

Nuke is a great program. v4.4 should be coming out soon. It is eagerly awaited.

Feel free to write me with any questions, if you have any.

Sean

[TheWingThing]

Thanks folks.
I'm also expecting the release of v4.4.
Also, I want to authorize user sign-ups so that people from outside the college cannot register in the students category.

Does anyone have a custome PHP-NUKE hack to have member categories and registration authorization with multiple admins?

Wing.

[MySiteHost]

Almost sounds like a haX0r thing.

[kunal]

Its a free GPL Content Management system in PHP and mysql. you can check it out at http://www.phpnuke.org

[MySiteHost]

:-/

[TheWingThing]

Yeah, it's way too slow.

The site is hosted in Indonesia, which probably seems to have even less bandwidth than India. And all this being a popular site.

They were telling about upgrading to a new server but guess haven't done it yet.

And hey, somebody tell me about Authorisation for individual sign-ups by admins.

Tx.
Wing.

[bdraco]

Your other option would probably slashcode.. its very similar to phpnuke .... http://slashcode.com/

[TheWingThing]

Thanks Nick. But Slahcode is in Perl. I prefer PHP. Talking about Perl, Metadot http://www.metadot.com - written in Perl looks good. This was mn my shortlist along with Nuke. But I decided to go with PHP.

In PHP-Nuke, can I add user authorisation by an administrator to the sign-up script? Because I do not want a pranky visitor to sign-up under my college alumni or staff category. I can't launch my site without this. And I don't know PHP programming and now am too strapped to find time to learn. An add-on to do this will be great.

Wing.

[Rehan]

Originally posted by TheWingThing
They were telling about upgrading to a new server but guess haven't done it yet.

The server has finally been moved... The new IP address is http://63.209.80.233/

Also, there was a note that 4.4 will be released late tomorrow (but elsewhere it says Friday).