From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-04-10T16:55:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Web Hosting

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:30:06PM +0900, manohar amrutkar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  Does ruby support to implement a web hosting website like
> godaddy.com
> or namecheap.com?

Uh . . . what?  There are two meanings to this question that occur to
me immediately as possibilities:

  1. You want to know if Ruby supports web development on one of these
  webhosts.

  2. You want to know if Ruby provides the ability to automate webhost
  account registration programmatically.

My answers are:

  1. It's not a question of what Ruby supports, but of what those
  webhosts support.  To my knowledge, GoDaddy's shared hosting accounts
  do not support Ruby, though one may (or may not) be able to get
  something running with a CGI eruby executable, if you can arrange to
  edit .htaccess files.  Other than that, I don't know enough about the
  two hosts you mentioned to be able to answer in more depth.  I do
  know, however, that I'd never trust GoDaddy with my money and my
  domains and website uptime.

  2. Yes, it does, but that sounds like it's leading down a pretty
  unethical path.  Why would you need such capability for legitimate,
  ethical purposes?  I'm curious.


> 
>  Is there are any APIs in ruby for Registration of Domain, Transfer
> of
> Domain?

Good question.  I don't know the answer -- but I doubt there's such a
thing in the core libraries, at least.

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