Paysite Discussion - The Whole Package...

[Xstr8guy]

Go with as big a dedicated box as you can afford right at the start. If it proves to be too much server, then migrate to a smaller box. It's better than making your member's suffer.

[Lee]

Okay, so we're pretty much set on the 'hosting' aspect of starting a paysite, what about the scripting side of things, what scripts are needed, if any to run a paysite these days?

Regards,

Lee

[Chilihost]

I think a CMS is not necessary but it certainly makes life a lot easier. Awiz is performing well for us and its pretty cheap.

[mickey]

anyone have any experience using opensource CMS systems ? and if so which are good and which are crap ?

[LavenderLounge]

We launched MuscleBearCub.com a few weeks ago with an open source CMS called Joomla.

I'm pretty bright, but I had to job out the set up and the design because it was just too complicated for me. Keep that in mind if you are a one man operation.
For example, I needed my programmer create an instruction manual for me to add new videos. With screen shots, the manual is 11 pages!

On the plus side, there is a lot of buzz about Joomla right now. There are a lot of cheap or free plugins and frequent updates, so it's well supported.

Techies will love the freedom and multitude of choices, creative types will be frustrated. Which are you?

[Bec]

We launched MuscleBearCub.com a few weeks ago with an open source CMS called Joomla.

I'm pretty bright, but I had to job out the set up and the design because it was just too complicated for me. Keep that in mind if you are a one man operation.
For example, I needed my programmer create an instruction manual for me to add new videos. With screen shots, the manual is 11 pages!

On the plus side, there is a lot of buzz about Joomla right now. There are a lot of cheap or free plugins and frequent updates, so it's well supported.

Techies will love the freedom and multitude of choices, creative types will be frustrated. Which are you?

I've looked at both Joomla and Drupal, and got frustrated for the very same reasons you mentioned, if you're not a programmer, and more design side minded, it's very frustrating to try and set those up.