Does most cheap hosting have cURL enabled for license check calls?
- Thread starter jamie3000
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- Apr 23, 2012
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It would depend on hosting to hosting.
But hosting a licensing server on shared hosting is never a good idea. During down times, it could create a conflict for your users or even prevent new licenses from being issued, thereby costing you a sale.
You're better off setting up a dedicated licensing server on a DigitalOcean droplet. An Ubuntu droplet with a Lamp environment would give you a nice dedicated environment for your licenses. You can even turn on backups for the server. And have full control on modules like curl or fsock.
But hosting a licensing server on shared hosting is never a good idea. During down times, it could create a conflict for your users or even prevent new licenses from being issued, thereby costing you a sale.
You're better off setting up a dedicated licensing server on a DigitalOcean droplet. An Ubuntu droplet with a Lamp environment would give you a nice dedicated environment for your licenses. You can even turn on backups for the server. And have full control on modules like curl or fsock.
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Sorry my post wasn't worded very well. I meant the plugin would use curl to call home with curl (on shared hosting probably) to my own server on Aws.
I was just concerned I'd have people installing my wordpress plugin and then they wouldn't have curl so the license check wouldn't work.
I do all my stuff on Aws and gcloud so have no idea about shared hosting these days
- Apr 23, 2012
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Ahh! My bad.
But then, why would you need curl to fetch the license details. You can build a simple json API that when called returns the validity of the license.
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials...ate-system-the-license-manager-api--cms-22674
This should get you going.
But then, why would you need curl to fetch the license details. You can build a simple json API that when called returns the validity of the license.
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials...ate-system-the-license-manager-api--cms-22674
This should get you going.
RobertTheShark
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I would also suggest what BlogPro is suggesting you, forget about cURL and just build a simple json API. This will get the work done everywhere.
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namecheap has every imaginable extension turned on, their shared hosting even provides SSH, it's almost like having a dedi. I've moved tens of client sites to a single namecheap pro plan.
Yeah I praise namecheap often in my posts and NO I'm not affiliated at all, it's just good service, good support and cheap prices which I appreciate.
I can change my mind in the future, as I have with many hosting cos in the past, but for now NC is fine.
Yeah I praise namecheap often in my posts and NO I'm not affiliated at all, it's just good service, good support and cheap prices which I appreciate.
I can change my mind in the future, as I have with many hosting cos in the past, but for now NC is fine.
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Yep, I buy my domains and ssl through them, best by far