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Questions tagged [custom-software]

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How can I decide if I should roll my own software or use a packaged CMS (and appropriate plugins)?

I'm a software engineer with little web experience currently in the process of wanting to actually using my web host and domain name for something other than a file dumping ground for files that I need to give other people access to. My plan is to…
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Do hosting companies, usually, allow running custom made server software?

I am starting a new project that includes subscriber registration and emailing them daily. For my project I created a server application written in c#, a website written in PHP, and a database managed by PHPMYADMIN and MySQL My question is, do…
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"Hire a freelancer"-esque site - existing solution or roll our own?

We're looking to roll out a kind of "hire a freelancer" style site but on a much smaller scale than existing sites Is anyone aware of any existing software on the market? haven't had much success googling "freelancer CMS" as you end up with…
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Suggestion for web application simmilar to wiki+SE

There were plenty of *.stackexchange places in which I could have posed this question. I hope I have chosen the right one. I am looking for an open source wiki/stackexchange like application. The layout of stackexchange is almost fine to me, I'd…
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Configuring thouands of related products in Magento?

I'm at a stage with a Magento store I'm developing where I've added all the products (all 6000 of them) and now would like to configure related products to up my conversion rate a bit. I was wondering if there was an extension anybody knew of that…
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Webhosting with custom database choice

Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am trying to find somewhere to host a website which uses OrientDB as its database. My budget doesn't stretch to a dedicated server where I can configure everything as I…
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Personal / custom E-mail Server

I am interested in developing different types of servers / web services for personal or learning purpose. For now I've written an http server that runs (circa) on my machine. My next idea would be to develop an email server, there are though some…
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