Notes and guides
Guides and notes on choosing a script, launching a site with it, and keeping it updated after it is installed.
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A practical order of work for a server list site: pick one game and one angle, choose software you can maintain, write the rules first, and add real listings before you ask for traffic.
Read the post : How to launch a game server list website: a step-by-step planBoth licenses cover one end product. The difference is whether you charge end users for it. Here is what each allows, what neither allows, and how to choose, with common situations worked through.
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Fake servers, vote manipulation, bots and abusive listings arrive as soon as a list has visitors. A layered approach to moderation, with a review workflow, reusable replies and the legal pages a user-generated directory needs.
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How to choose hosting for a directory or server list script, how to size it without guessing, what caching can and cannot do, and how to set up cron jobs for status pings so they run on time and never pile up.
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A server list is thousands of near-identical pages unless you make them different. Here is how to plan page types, write titles and descriptions, avoid thin and duplicate pages, and measure what search engines actually do with your site.
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A staging site is a private copy where you can install, change and break things. Here is how to set one up, what to test, and how to move the result to the live site without surprises.
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Four common ways to get a working site fast, compared on what decides the outcome: hosting, who can maintain it, how far you can change it and what an update costs you.
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A changelog tells you what will change, what might break and what you have to do by hand. Here is how to read one in five minutes and decide whether to update today, later or never.
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Featured listings, paid submissions, advertising, memberships and affiliate links all work for some directories. Here is how each one works, what it costs you in trust, how to set a price, and what to settle before charging anyone.
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A plain checklist for installing a PHP script you bought: check requirements, create the database, upload the files, run the installer, set up cron, test, and take a backup before you change anything else.
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