Are you selecting DOTSTER web hosting as your next blog hosting plan? Have you tested Dotster hosting for various blogging software installation? Yes, Dotster does provide web application vault where you can setup and install web application via their installer. Same to cPanel hosting with Fantastico or Simplescript, and vdeck hosting with Installcentral. Dotster control panel have their installer tool included as well.
From the Dotster web application vault, we have found the blogging and content management system section, and inside it we found only the B2evolution blogging apps ready for quick installation. How about WordPress, Textpattern, Nucleus, and other blogging software? Why we can’t find installer tool for other blogging apps? We have to manually setup install the other blogging software, and its have to be done via ftp account upload and web install, step by step, time consuming task. Certain level of expertise is require for this task, not recommended for absolute beginner. However, here is the detail step to setup WordPress manually at your Dotster web hosting plan.
- Download the latest WordPress version at http://wordpress.org/download/
- Create a new MySQL database for your WordPress blog.
- Unzip the content and edit the wp-config.php file.
- Enter the database login details into the wp-config.php
- Now, you are ready to upload all the WordPress file to your Dotster account via FTP client, we recommend Filezilla for the job.
- Once finish uploading, the WordPress blog is ready and viewable online.
This manual installation process will take less than five to ten minutes to complete. With this same method, you can upload any other software that you need and install website at your Dotster hosting account.
From our web hosting review and testing, we are confirmed that WordPress blog and B2evolution blog can be setup at Dotster web hosting. Installing and running from Dotster web hosting plan without problem. And we have install few wordpress plugins for this wordpress site as well, and its running normally. One different thing about Dotster server is that they already have the webpage caching enabled, and so the installation of WordPress cache plugin to speed up the website loading ins unnecessary.
For the other apps, anyone that have tested it before, do post your comments here and share your experience with others.
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June 25th, 2011 at 8:36 pm
And our previous wordpress site review can be found here
http://www.dotsterreviews.org/dotster-wordpress-blog-hosting
June 25th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Some extra information about private SSL and e-commerce hosting at here
http://www.dotsterreviews.org/dotster/dotster-ecommerce
you can setup https secure page for your member login too, purchase and install the SSL cert and setup the https page accordingly.