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  • What sort of hosting should I look for for a website for an independent (one man) lawsuit mediation business? I've got registered domain names, and now i need hosting. I need email, a calendar application (lets clients pick dates subject to manual confirmation by the mediator), an application that will generate pdfs from client-input information, and a payment application. He's also going to automatically generate some sort of economic analysis graph from info the client puts in. The script is not written yet and I have no idea what language it will use. He doesn't either.As for me ... I've got a firm hand on html and css, several computer science classes (C++, Javascript, some lisp), but no direct knowledge of php.And I'm stumped. Help me, hive mind!

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    I think you may be in trouble, but http://hudzilla.org/phpwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page. Though, really, this sounds like what the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system was created for. The graph, however, will need to be either custom mad or patched into whatever you use.

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IronLizard

Okay, I echo the 'trouble' bit from above. You're talking about two different things: hosting (paying for a physical machine to place your website on) and the site itself (CMS, CMS, CMS). Hosting: Dreamhost is hard to beat. Pretty cheap (~$8/mo for Crazy Domain Insane) which will give you just about everything you'll need. CMS: I always recommend Drupal, which will give you the user/site/contact work you need easily. There's no need to re-invent those wheels. The custom work (economic analysis, payment, etc) you will need to do yourself. I hope you have a big timeline.

unixrat

Who is 'he'? Dreamhost, in my experience, isn't rock-steady, and in this application, stability (uptime) will greatly outweigh whiz-bang features or sky-high bandwidth. Look at WestHost or a similar managed VPS.

tmcw

One can't purchase e-commerce-y transaction software?! Oh dear.

anthropomorphic

You can purchase that kind of script, (http://www.google.com/search?q=php+ecommerce&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a), but it will not fit your functionality and style needs out of the box. Web applications are, unlike desktop apps, almost always modified in some way before they are entirely usable.

tmcw

Still wondering about the mysterious "he" and his abilities.

tmcw

He is an economist and a lawyer, the one man mediation fellow. (I didn't want to get very specific, he's basically selling a formula saying when it's prudent to settle to clients looking to save years of attorney's fees)

anthropomorphic

Still wondering about the mysterious "he" and his abilities. The 'he' is the lawyer/whatever running this 'lawsuit mediation business'. He (the lawyer) has hired anthropomorphic to create this whiz-bang website for him. The lawyer also has/will create 'some sort of economic analysis graph' from the data entered on the website, which sounds like an Excel worksheet to me. At least, that's what I got out of it the first time I read it. Reading it further... not so sure any more. Perhaps there are two people working on the website?

unixrat

Oops. Anthro beat me to it.

unixrat

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