Mass Installer for BS3?

[LGL79]

Is there a mass installer out there for BS3?

If not, then:

- Would Omar add it to his "to do" list?

- Any tips on how to speed up the existing process?

[Omar]

The issue with an autoinstaller is that will have to create database also, and perform other operations on server, that means will only work on certain hosts, probably only those having cpanel. This would narrow the usage.

And.. how much is taking you the actual process now?

With making the databse, uploading and chmodding, etc, would take me 5 minutes or so. Say takes 10 minutes for others.

That is 6 domain per hour, 30 domains in 5 hours, almost 1000 domains in a month. Do you really want to build so many faster? Would you have time to research keywords, do all BS settings and stuff for each of them?

[tharani]

Hi

I am going to share an idea, which omar can tell is workable or not.

Right now blogsolution can create blogs on single domain using subdomain or subfolder structure.

If we can upgrade it so it can work on multi-domain. e.g.
we supply it 500 keywords and 5 domains and it spread it 100 blogs on each 5 domains with just single BS install.

We will need to park the additional 4 domains onto the main domain. Rest will be managed by blog engine using .htaccess

Options can be make to interlink these blogs or not.


Tharani

[Omar]

I am not sure how possible it is. Never though about working with parked domains. I will speak with programmers.

[tharani]

Hi

Any feedback from programmers?

Can it be custom programmed?

Tharani

[gnarlyguy]

A mass installer would still be good. Especially when you're not using TBS for indexing.

[lthl]

Cheers fellows, 1st timer on the board here

I've been checking out TBS for the last day or two... and I just wanna say it's a serious piece of software with A LOT of serious features that no-one else offers... but, IMHO, it's crippled by lacking a couple of MAJOR features which others offer.

And the one beeing discussed here is one of the important ones. And I'm not talking about "mass install" - no point in having 100 installs of a software one 1 machine when you can have 1 install handle all your domains...

Someone has been saying something about parked domains... not sure what that person meant and it doesn't make a lot of sense to me... BUT

I should definitely be able to install blogs on multiple domains on the same server. This is serious feature missing from TBS, and quite frankly the reason I haven't purchased a copy of it yet.

Let's talk numbers: I believe we can all agree that 2000 blogs on a single domain, on a single IP are preeeety much useless. Google's gonna take them down for spam pretty quick, ESPECIALLY because (let's be honest) you're NOT gonna update them by hand, but rather fill them with dupes from RSS feeds and re-written gibberish from articles and whatnot.

I'm not saying 2000 blogs is not doable, it is! But on a different setup. Imagine 20 domains (on 20 different IPs), each hosting 100 blogs in say 10 different groups (categories), and all the blogs on one domains linking to the others on a category-based pattern on an A-B-C system... now that's a WHOLE OTHER animal, wouldn't you agree?

And you know what? I BET it's not even hard to implement a feature where you can choose the domain on which you want the blogs installed from a list of domains hosted on that machine - which you can enter by hand, according to their path (ie. something like /home/user/domain.com/ or /home/user/domain2.com/). And while you're at it, some people might wanna be able to install blogs on subdomains as well! something like... TBS-blog.fr.domain.com, if you catch my drift

Now if this is something you will consider and I'm not just pissing in the wind here, then I can make a few more suggestions...

Other then that, I wish you all a nice weekend