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Scout31:
--- Quote from: Ephialtes on December 10, 2010, 09:09:41 AM ---You're asking people to host the whole thing themselves but use a remote database? Where's the sense in that?
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There are generally more problems with MySQL than PHP and Apache.
--- Quote from: Ephialtes on December 11, 2010, 07:26:28 AM ---Is that why you're using "createaforum"?
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Perhaps his bandwidth is crap.
Ephialtes:
--- Quote from: Scout31 on December 11, 2010, 08:00:53 AM ---There are generally more problems with MySQL than PHP and Apache.
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So use Sqlite, wtf? If you knew anything about webdev at all you'd know that's the obvious choice.
Wedge:
Voted no because of:
--- Quote ---Webserver (Preferably Apache)
PHP Installation (exec() function must be enabled)
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Here's a better idea, make a twitter account for a computer and for yourself. Write a program that interprets specific tweets into server commands. For example, tweet "info" and your computer sends back brick count, players, uptime, etc. Tweet "ban x" and the server bans them. Tweet "change map to bedroom" and it changes the map to bedroom. Things like enabled and disabled add-ons can be listed on pastebin and linked to on twitter.
This will run on many phones, game consoles, laptops, computers, etc, with almost no setup required for the server.
Of course this forum doesn't allow you to post executables, so good luck bridging the gap. Maybe you can distribute the source and have people compile it themselves.
DrenDran:
--- Quote from: Wedge on December 11, 2010, 08:15:43 AM ---Voted no because of:
Here's a better idea, make a twitter account for a computer and for yourself. Write a program that interprets specific tweets into server commands. For example, tweet "info" and your computer sends back brick count, players, uptime, etc. Tweet "ban x" and the server bans them. Tweet "change map to bedroom" and it changes the map to bedroom. Things like enabled and disabled add-ons can be listed on pastebin and linked to on twitter.
This will run on many phones, game consoles, laptops, computers, etc, with almost no setup required for the server.
Of course this forum doesn't allow you to post executables, so good luck bridging the gap. Maybe you can distribute the source and have people compile it themselves.
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1. But hosting a website, or what you're saying, can actually be done as just an add-on.
2. I've posted executables here before, when I've made a topic about a game I'm making or something, nothing bad happened.
Wedge:
--- Quote from: DrenDran on December 11, 2010, 08:27:05 AM ---But hosting a website, or what you're saying, can actually be done as just an add-on.
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Having people host a website on their home computer, especially when it's just a backend to a program, is a stuffty solution to just about everything. If the point of this was to develop something that would be deployed on a dedicated server at some hosting company thats fine, and they might even already have apache or php installed. But there's about 3 people on the whole forum who would even use this then, and these people would probably be more inclined to write their own interface.
You can't make people install php and apache on their home computer because you're too lazy to come up with a real solution.
I'll throw another idea out there too: adding or deleting mods on the server through dropbox.