Ok, does anyone have a Bludomain site and host it with Dreamhost?

I am trying to move my website from Bludomain, to Dreamhost, and I emailed all of Blu's "requirements for hosting with other hosting company" to Dreamhost. You know, this:

SETUP REQUIREMENTS FOR NON-BLUDOMAIN SERVER:

you will need to provide your ftp host, username and password, as well as your control panel** url, username, and password. In Addition all below requirements need to be met for the site to function properly.

The control panel is needed to add/edit the mysql database. If there is no control panel then we need the database host, name, user, and password to be sent to us, and the database must allow remote connections from desktop programs such as mysql-front.

If the server doesn't have the settings pre-set to our specifications, please note whether we need to edit a php.ini file or a .htaccess file to set the settings locally.




REQUIREMENTS:::Please confirm with your server that they meet the following requirements:

1. PHP 4.xx or 5.xx with:
a. safe-mode must be disabled (turned off)
b. register_globals must be set to on
c. max_upload_filesize set to 6MB or above (or .htaccess
files that can change the php.ini settings for individual
accounts must be supported)
d. extensions_dir setting in php.ini MUST EXIST. *** very important ***
For windows servers this folder must be located
on the same drive as the document root and scripts directory.
e. SecFilterEngine must equal Off
SecFilterScanPOST must equal Off
f. php must have php gd library installed
g. thread safety must be disabled


2. server must allow emails to be sent via php script to any email address, and from any email address
3. server must support MYSQL and must have at least 1 mysql database available for each bludomain site, blog, and/or slideshow


IF ANY OF THE ABOVE REQUIREMENTS ARE NOT MET YOUR SITE WILL NOT WORK PROPERLY





Someone from Dreamhost emailed me back saying:

We meet all the requirements in listing number
1 but for listing number 2 we no longer support php to email on our
servers. This will not affect how your websites work. Listing number 3 is
okay as well as we offer Mysql with our plan.



Can someone tell me if I am screwed for email now? I haven't moved anything yet, but I don't get any of this stuff and am so freaking confused at this point...

Ok, so, I guess PHP to email won't affect my emails back and forth with clients, but does anyone know what part of the Bludomain template uses PHP to email?

What is that function?

caveat: I don't know anything about a blu site but I'm going to guess it's the contact form if you have one.

Robina is right. That could screw up the contact form. It probably depends on what site you get from Blu. The contact form that is in Flash shouldn't be using PHP to email although there has to be some mailer form I would think. I don't know enough about the details of the website under the hood to say for sure, but your contact form could be an issue.

Yeah - definitely check on that. My contact form on my website didn't work for SEVEN months after I switched from blu hosting and I didn't know about it (because the emails I get are so similar to the ones I get from my blog contact page). I can only imagine how many weddings I lost. Anyway - blu did fix the problem immediately when I told them about it, so not sure if that was the same thing or not.