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Originally Posted by m4yadult
Why not using dreamhost. Iīve got a virtual account there for some tgp submits and it works fine, unless itīs a hun listing...  |
Well, heres the bigger picture... The overall situation. I got approached by my client. He has over 8000 separate (Legal and fully licensed) 20 min video clips, (DVD Scenes) that he wants to sell online, using a 'pay per download' model...
He wants a main site built, featuring all of his clips, with categories and a search function etc, PLUS 8000 individual separate pages on 8000 separate URLs, each SEOd to the specific description of the individual clip itself, plus cross linking of ten other URLs from the group, on each page...
As you can see, its not a small project, and one that Im more than happy to get involved in... He asked me who he should host with, and I replied he should get a dedicated box at mojohost, as I have used them myself in the past, and know that there fully managed support system is second to none...
However, he didn't want to jump into paying $400+ a month from day one, before I even had a template designed for the other pages, the main site up and working, and the billing in its place etc...
So he decided to get a dreamhost virtual account for a year for $60, so I could 'play' with getting things set up... Then, once its underway, we can switch to mojohost, and have them 'suck' everything across...
Seems reasonable, but here the silly thing... If we were with Mojo now, Id think nothing of picking up the phone and just saying what I need, and it will be done... Likewise, if I was on a dedicated box from an unmanaged provider, Id have no trouble using ssh etc and giving commands in shell at root level...
But.. DREAMHOST !
I mean, you get what you pay for, but Im not used to dealing with the 'budget' end of the scale, when it comes to doing things, like SETTING UP BILLING etc, that Id normally do on a DEDICATED BOX !
But anyway, Im sure all will be OK... Just gotta get this verotel in place, get the first ten vids going, the first ten pages up... Then we can just add a few here and there, and when hes happy, I can hit up brad, and send him a HHD with all the clips on it, for him to load DIRECTLY into the 'right' folder on our new server...
But until I have the billing working... I dont even know what 'The Right Folder' is !!!
Still 'Baby Steps' LOL AT least I know now that I can just create the cgi-bin like I thought, (Thanks Klaze) and get busy with verotel tomorrow !
Thanks for your help anyway though...
