This is a heads up and a request for info from others who have gone before.
I currently have a hosting agreement with WestNIC. I found that they do not have PDO enabled. I asked about it and their reply was (and I quote) "Sorry, we don't offer PDO MySQL. We provide MySQL and MySQLi". When I asked if there was a way to get it enabled, their reply was (again, quoted) "We will install PDO as soon as cPanel release stable version. We cannot use "experimental modules"." I then told them that this prompts me to look for a new host and their reply was "Sorry to hear that but we have no plans to offer PDO in the nearest future. As soon as they release stable module, we will add it our test cpanel server again." All in all, very unsatisfying. I would not recommend that anyone hosts with WestNIC if they intend to run the latest PGV code.
Now, the info request. Since I have to move to a new host (I have multiple sites that I support, so I need a reseller account), I am looking for recommendations. I would like to keep my costs at $10 per month or less. I have seen a few hosts (gazzin.com is the current front runner), but I would really like feedback from those who are on different host vendors. It would be really cool if they also supported application servers such as Tomcat.
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
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GoDaddy would be under $10/month and allows TomCat & SSH. Tech support people actually have a clue. Overall, not a bad provider, but they did make an error in one of their scripts that put my site down for three days (the script that turns on TomCat).
If I could afford the extra cost, I'd try Bluehost-which is still under $10 per month but higher than GoDaddy.
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I recently changed to Lunarpages.com and I've been pleased with it. An IT friend suggests http://www.the10besthosts.com/ as a starting point to find a new host.
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Anonymous
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2009-10-20
Generally sites like "10besthosts" are a marketing arm of the companies in their list. Turns out the first choice in their list is a site they own. If I wanted to waste the time, I am guessing one company owns all those companies so whichever one gets your business, it is all the same company under the "shell".
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2009-10-20
Darrel, I think they scammed you. Suspect they were just too lazy to add it to their site. cPanel has been supporting PDO since at least 2005 and PDO is supported in what is called their "stable" version. I have a cPanel server I offer hosting on. It didn't have PDO by default. Had to recompile Apache to add the support to PHP. Had a little snafu, but otherwise the install went well and PGV works fine on a cPanel server.
I am guessing cPanel comprises a LARGE share of the server market so there are probably literally tens of thousands of cPanel servers running PDO.
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Yep, pretty much the same response I got from my Australian host. I gather it means one or both of two things:
a) If we make our service too useful our only access modem won't be able to handle the traffic
b) I'm fresh out of uni with "Microsoft" tattooed on my forehead and think I know everything. I've never heard of PDO but want to sound knowledgable so I'll tell you you can't have it.
Either way the service they are offering isn't really very useful to a lot of people. You'd think with the recent hype we were given about www2 the hosting providers would be a little more with it but, in Australia at least, the only ones that really seem to have some idea of what's needed want to bleed you for the privilege.
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2009-10-24
I noticed on the bluehost site where it says unlimited bandwidth and disk space that it says in red letters, "now more" was it not "unlimited" before?
Out of curiousity, those of you hosting there, how much space and bandwidth are you actually using? If you under 1GB of disk and 10GB of transfer, you can get a cheaper hosting solution. Most of my clients don't use a fraction of that amount so "unlimited" is a mute point.
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This is a heads up and a request for info from others who have gone before.
I currently have a hosting agreement with WestNIC. I found that they do not have PDO enabled. I asked about it and their reply was (and I quote) "Sorry, we don't offer PDO MySQL. We provide MySQL and MySQLi". When I asked if there was a way to get it enabled, their reply was (again, quoted) "We will install PDO as soon as cPanel release stable version. We cannot use "experimental modules"." I then told them that this prompts me to look for a new host and their reply was "Sorry to hear that but we have no plans to offer PDO in the nearest future. As soon as they release stable module, we will add it our test cpanel server again." All in all, very unsatisfying. I would not recommend that anyone hosts with WestNIC if they intend to run the latest PGV code.
Now, the info request. Since I have to move to a new host (I have multiple sites that I support, so I need a reseller account), I am looking for recommendations. I would like to keep my costs at $10 per month or less. I have seen a few hosts (gazzin.com is the current front runner), but I would really like feedback from those who are on different host vendors. It would be really cool if they also supported application servers such as Tomcat.
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
GoDaddy would be under $10/month and allows TomCat & SSH. Tech support people actually have a clue. Overall, not a bad provider, but they did make an error in one of their scripts that put my site down for three days (the script that turns on TomCat).
If I could afford the extra cost, I'd try Bluehost-which is still under $10 per month but higher than GoDaddy.
I recently changed to Lunarpages.com and I've been pleased with it. An IT friend suggests http://www.the10besthosts.com/ as a starting point to find a new host.
Generally sites like "10besthosts" are a marketing arm of the companies in their list. Turns out the first choice in their list is a site they own. If I wanted to waste the time, I am guessing one company owns all those companies so whichever one gets your business, it is all the same company under the "shell".
Darrel, I think they scammed you. Suspect they were just too lazy to add it to their site. cPanel has been supporting PDO since at least 2005 and PDO is supported in what is called their "stable" version. I have a cPanel server I offer hosting on. It didn't have PDO by default. Had to recompile Apache to add the support to PHP. Had a little snafu, but otherwise the install went well and PGV works fine on a cPanel server.
I am guessing cPanel comprises a LARGE share of the server market so there are probably literally tens of thousands of cPanel servers running PDO.
Yep, pretty much the same response I got from my Australian host. I gather it means one or both of two things:
a) If we make our service too useful our only access modem won't be able to handle the traffic
b) I'm fresh out of uni with "Microsoft" tattooed on my forehead and think I know everything. I've never heard of PDO but want to sound knowledgable so I'll tell you you can't have it.
Either way the service they are offering isn't really very useful to a lot of people. You'd think with the recent hype we were given about www2 the hosting providers would be a little more with it but, in Australia at least, the only ones that really seem to have some idea of what's needed want to bleed you for the privilege.
I've been happy with bluehost.com for a while now. For $6.95 a month they're worth a look - http://www.bluehost.com/tell_me_more.html
I noticed on the bluehost site where it says unlimited bandwidth and disk space that it says in red letters, "now more" was it not "unlimited" before?
Out of curiousity, those of you hosting there, how much space and bandwidth are you actually using? If you under 1GB of disk and 10GB of transfer, you can get a cheaper hosting solution. Most of my clients don't use a fraction of that amount so "unlimited" is a mute point.