Introducing: MageDB.net and new hosting found

Hey,

I’ve been on a domain registering spree the last few days. I’ve registered MageDB.net and MageDB.com where the .com domain redirects you to the .net one. The purpose of that .net domain is going to be to just host MageDB and possible services (like MageDB hosting solutions) all centralised on that one domain. A added banifit is ofcourse that a full domain name with the same name as the script looks a lot more professional then a simple subdomain on my projects domain. For now this blog remains on mageprojects and magedb news will be posted on this blog, but in time i might create a new seperate blog on magedb.net for magedb only news.. who knows.

And, yes, i’ve added google adsence advertisements on MageDB.net just to see if it works out well and ofcourse to make some money once that domain is actively hosting MageDB.

Now for the new hosting. I found a new “home” at BoostVisual. They are cheap and from what i’ve seen so far offer nice hosting solutions. The speed is great with them as well which isn’t always the case for me when downloading stuff from servers in usa. The only think i’m waiting for before i can migrate this blog to there host is the php MySQLi and APC extensions to be installed. As soon as that’s been fixed i will start migrating my all of this to that host.

Now for some tine MageDB news.
I had quite a lot of trouble getting my category class working for menu navigation and also some annoying cache issues which is now all fixed. Now here is a start of the features that are not going to make beta 1 but will likely be in beta 2:

• Search engine friendly urls
• Comments in file view
• ajax based file rating in file view

Features that are not implemented yet but should be in the first beta release later this week or early next week

• Full admin panel
• search (sql based not highly optimised one)
• statistics (basic ones)
• [ done ] working category’s (template is here.. code is here partly)
• [ W.I.P. ] ability to: download, rate, report and mail a file
• upload a file (also part of the admin panel)
• apc abstraction because right now magedb is not working without apc (needed because with APC is the only way it’s working now)
• settings for various magedb things (needed for the header mostly)
• writing a logger to for example log mails being send (needed for mail a file aka mail link to friend)
• “intelligent” spam detection for mails send and also for comments when they are here (needed for mail a file aka mail link to friend)
• Tagcloud (yea, i will go go with the hype around this.. i don’t really see a benifit but well, you’re going to get it)

I will update those last 6 features here with a [ done ] tag once i’ve made them.
// note to self :: am i ever going to make that big list in just a few days?

That’s it for now,
Mark