Please Solve The Following Queries Regarding PHPLD Directory. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello all, Whish you a Happy Holidays & Happy New Year in Advance. Recently I purchased a new PHPLD Software Version 3.1. I am having some questions in my mind. Please solve it before I start my new Dream directory (IT SEEMS DREAMS COME TRUE FOR ME). I have also downloaded a Template. 1. What should be the IDEAL Size of Hosting server ? 2. What should be the Bandwith Required for a nicely working Directory with good traffic ? 3. Can we change the Featured Link look up in directory ? Please Suggest me How ? 4. How to take Back up ? What to take as back up ? How often should be done? 5. Currently My template has only 4 Navigation links on home page. How can I add more links e.g. About Us, Contact Us etc.. 6. How to add "Suggest A Category" link to directory ? Thx in Advace........ -Ricky
Most of those questions are readily available from both the queries of digitalpoint and phplinkdirectory.com.... But to answer a few other questions...You actually dont need a ton of hosting..only enough space to hold your serverside scripting files and images and so on...you could run a great directory off 50 megs of hosting + a db easily. although the more the better. an ideal size...100-500megs with decent bandwith and a few MySQL databases would run from 4-10$ monthly... As for bandwith, any normal hosting package should be able to carry the burden of a strong trafficed directory. You can backup the directory using a serverside tool called php myadmin, very easy to backup and save once inside it. backing up should be done more commonly the bigger the directory gets...i used to back up 1x every 2 weeks when i started...now my directory gets many many links a day so i back up daily or every 2 days. You can add as many new links as you want,..simply edit the .tpl file where you want to place them. e.g. top_bar.tpl and include <a href="/contact.php">Contact</a> like i said,..use the search on both here and phplinkdirectory forums....you wont believe what you will find... -Tim