Wednesday, January 2, 2008

HOW TO MAKE SERVAGE HOSTING PERFECT?

Difficult Question as the first thing which needs realy to be changes is the SUPPORT at all. Fire all of them and try to work together with a professional SUPPORT CENTER > OUTSOURCE these activities to profis if you don't have own ones available. The one SERVAGE HOSTING has at the moment is not at all acceptable!
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But this will be another Thread:
We will list here some small things which would make life at SERVAGE HOSTING much easier:
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THE FILEMANAGER
  1. Insert a reload bottom into your filemanager
  2. Add a ZIP/TarGZ Functionality to the filemanager to pack folders and files (i.e. for backup)
  3. Add a COPY and PASTE functionality to the filemanager
THE WEB SERVERS
  1. The Virtual Hosts of xyz are not sorted which makes managing very difficult if you have a TEST website i.e. with 100 of sub domains. They should be sorted 0-9-A-Z
  2. Creating a subdomain is fast but it won't be active for hours / perhaps even days!!! this is incredible for any production, test or development site
MYSQL DATABASES
  1. All Databases should be sorted in a list 0-9-a-z in all views!
  2. The standard collation should be set to utf-8-unicode-ci instead the now existing latin-swedish-ci
    Until now you always need to switch to phpmyadmin before inserting any data into your databases to switch them to utf-8 otherweise they are latin1
    Actually it would be OK to have this process:
    1. Create a new database
    2. Add a field which asks for the collation utf8-unicode-ci
    3. execute the sql querie to achieve the utf-8 settings
    Then no additional accessing of phpmyadmin would be necessary
AUTOINSTALLER
  1. Drupal is running only on MYSQL 4 Mode
  2. Joomla is running only on MYSQL 4 Mode

This post will be continued and updated - so stay tuned!

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