My own hosting service...

[magnus127]

I'm looking for a good hosting script similiar to yahoo/geocities. I've found a few that are great for making webpages exculsively, but not that will have email, chat, auctions, etc, etc...

Any idea's?

[Nightfire]

Happy searching. You'll have a hard time trying to find something like that :) You might have to create it yourself or puts lots of scripts together and try to create a full working site. If you are looking to get it free, then good luck :)

[magnus127]

lol, free would be a dream come true!! Never expected it though, so I'm willing to dish out a few bucks for it. My real problem is that I don't know a lot about writing script, so if I got a few different programs running together, how would I integrate them?? For instance, I want to make it so if a person signs up with my site, they only have to sign up the one time to have access to all the functions. I wouldn’t know how to make a single user database out of the many databases that would come from all the different programs.

[Nightfire]

What serverside language does your host support?

[magnus127]

I have my choice of either Windows 2000 or Red Hat Linux, with full support for just about everything under each.

[Nightfire]

You could try http://www.hotscripts.com erm, then find any decent scripts you need there, then somehow merge them all to run all together.

[magnus127]

Actually that's been the place I've been doing most of my search!
:thumbsup:

There's a few good ones on there, but not that will do everything I want....I may just have to go with what looks best, and then have the developer work in what else I want.

[oracleguy]

I actually had a contract to do this a while back. Er, most of it. Someone else built the file manager, and the email was just he MS Outlook Web Access. All is ASP. It took months of very hard labor and like 10 or 15 thousand lines of ASP code.

I ended up with about 20 or 25 tables in MySQL.

[magnus127]

So you're saying, more trouble than it's worth?