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#21
eCommerce / Zencart
October 26, 2019, 12:05:33 PM
Zen-Cart's web site https://www.zen-cart.com/

Support Forum For Zencart https://www.zen-cart.com/forum.php

I've installed an example of ZenCart at http://www.bigkahunahosting.com/zencart/ and I'll load up some examples of store data when I get a little more time.

Zen Cart is full featured - It will handle orders soup to nuts including shipping, sales tax, packing slips, confirmation emails, credit cards all of the reporting you could dream of. It can handle home businesses selling less than 100 items to bigger business selling thousands of items. It is highly customizable to give that "custom made for you" only look and feel.

This all comes at the price of time required to configure how you want to run your business; store departments/categories; and products with descriptions and photos. Once completed you will have a store which is killer looking and efficient. This is one of the applications that many offering to set up your store at $150 hour use. You can save that money if you can invest the time.

It requires one database and the Big Kahuna Package for a small store or Enterprise Package of hosting for busy stores.

We can install, and even configure how you operate, departments, special pages and do the graphics, but you should handle adding the items you're sell as it is time consuming. A person of average intelligence and computer user abilities can configure, add pages and departments. There is strong support on their forums (but be careful hiring some beside BKH to install/configure as you have to trust them to not put a backdoor on your hosting account) and documentation.
#22
Banner Ad Servers / Revive - Ad Server
October 26, 2019, 11:37:25 AM
https://www.revive-adserver.com/

Revive is a free to use click banner ad application. If you go to many of the web sites used as examples for the various applications, you will see some have Leader Board ads at the top and/or bottom of the page and/or sidebars. This is an application where your advertisers get a report (as often as you set up) on how many times their banners displayed (viewed) and on what sites, and the number of visits (clicks) sent to their site. You can charge them based on the number if views or clicks.

In the application you set up your Advertisers, their campaigns (they may have many for different seasons) and their banners. Then you set up websites and what banners are to appear on them. You'll get an "Invocation Code" that you place in the location if the web site you want to display. You then charge the advertisers based on the views or clicks. There are budget limit settings you can set if an advertiser doesn't want to pay more than $100 month. Once that's hit, it stops displaying the ad for that customer. The invocation code causes the ads rotate in the locations set up on the web site. So 100 customers might rotate on the same space - based on their budget.

You not only can have the banners rotate kn your site(s), but can sell the service to the active web sites, either giving them a flat amount or a percentage of the revenue.

While there are many ad server applications, this the one I've used for the last ten years. It may be the best, it may be the worst, but it does everything I need and is simple.
#23
The world is littered with assholes trying to hack into your applications and hosting accounts for various reasons. They cover the range of just being a malicious asshole to using your hosting account's email processing to spoof and spam the world.

Most Applications when installed default to the username of admin. Using that as your username solves half of the hacker's problem. Change it to something else - like your most used Forum Handle. Use at least 6 characters. Use a complicated (mixture of numbers, upper and lower case letters & symbols) password that you can remember. If you grew up on 486 Wood St as a kid - try <486^WoodSt>. If your first car was a 1972 Mercury Comet  - maybe use something like 1972@Mercury@Comet
#24
Word Press / Word Press
October 26, 2019, 10:50:57 AM
Word Press is the easiest way to set up a web site. Most small sites on the Interweb are Word Press. There are thousands of (Free & "Premium") themes and addons, making it super simple to give each site a custom look.

https://wordpress.org/

Big Kahuna Hosting's front page was created in a couple of hours using Word Press. Many small business wanting and inexpensive web presence use Word Press.

http://www.bigkahunahosting.com/

#25
Wikis / PmWiki
October 26, 2019, 10:39:34 AM
https://pmwiki.org/

Pmwiki is a lighter version clone of MediaWiki. It still uses the standard Wiki Markup Language that most all use to format your pages. Wikis are a little complicated and take some practice to get use to, but the average computer user can pick up by clicking Edit an the page of any Wiki to see examples of how it was used.

Big Kahuna Hosting can install the if you prefer someone with experience doing it.

http://www.bigkahunahosting.com/hosting-services/
#26
Wikis / MediaWiki
October 26, 2019, 10:28:28 AM
If you've ever been to Wikipedia, then you've seen Wikimedia, as it was written for Wikipedia.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

Many companies use it to put together the operations manual for their company, and delicate various sections to different people to collaborate on. Others use it to put together a historical encyclopedia of a certain item. MoparWiki is an example of that. http://moparwiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Wikis have a little Complexity to them because most use a formatting language. It is easy to pick up, but will take a little practice. Because Media was written to control the World's Largest Encyclopedia, the installation and upgrades are complicated and best left to pros. Even configuration (if you want to customize) is best kept to the pros. http://www.bigkahunahosting.com/hosting-services/

MediaWiki will use one Database.
#27
CPanel / Nameservers
October 26, 2019, 10:17:04 AM
When you register a domain name with a registrar, you will need to set the name server associated to your domain name to a nameserver, so that the Internet can relay to the correct server. The nameservers for Big Kahuna Hosting is:

NS1.BIGKAHUNAHOSTING.COM
NS2.BIGKAHUNAHOSTING.COM

You'll need to enter both. Each Registrar is a little different on how you do that, but it should be relatively easy to figure out, or call their support for advice.
#28
Forums / Vbulletin
October 26, 2019, 10:11:05 AM
The best there is, but not free. https://www.vbulletin.com/

Vbulletin installing is not for the faint of heart. You should have some experience with databases and php, or have someone else install. http://www.bigkahunahosting.com/hosting-services/

Vbulletin will take one database
#29
Forums / Simple Machines Forums
October 26, 2019, 10:05:00 AM
Big Kahuna Hosting is using Simple Machines for this forum.

Unlike many of the other Free To Use forum applications, Simple Machines actively supports and updates this application. It serves the needs of about 90% of the people wanting a easy to use/administrate forum. The other 10% needing more features should consider vbulletin. Simple machines will require on database and is most often installed in a directory called forum or forums.

If you're uncomfortable installing into you hosting account, the Big Kahuna can install and set to automatically upgrade as new releases come out.

http://www.bigkahunahosting.com/hosting-services/
#30
Photo Gallery/Album & File Servers / Piwigo
October 26, 2019, 09:54:20 AM
Piwigo is a newer Photo Album/Gallery application which is easy to use. It is geared for the Professional photographer who wants to sell his photos.

Set up your albums, drag and drop photos into the albums, and use limited adjustment tools.

Here's a very simple example http://www.bigkahunahosting.com/piwigo/
#31
CPanel / CPanel User Documentation
October 26, 2019, 09:25:39 AM
https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/76Docs/cPanel+User+Documentation

CPanel is the Administer Control Panel that allows you to control your hosting account and view statistics.



The above link is to the user manual and videos. For the most part, once you have your site set up, you'll only visit to make email additions and changes, and to view your visitor statistics.