I use DreamHost, but it's a really quite inflexible host when it comes to programming. I can use PHP5, but little PEAR or PECL support. I can use MySQL. I can do custom installations of PHP, to allow PEAR and PECL support, but it requires jumping through hoops. I can install Ruby on Rails, but it's *really* slow.

What do you guys use for hosting, and how good about programming are they?

~Artemis

surpasshosting.com -> if you're quick $1 for their lowest (whch is still awesome!) shared hosting package.. take a look

Posted By Michael on 18th Feb 08 at 11:11pm

 

surpasshosting.com -> if you're quick $1 for their lowest (whch is still awesome!) shared hosting package.. take a look

It says I'll owe $60 next year...

~Artemis

Posted By Paddy on 18th Feb 08 at 10:47pm

 

I use DreamHost, but it's a really quite inflexible host when it comes to programming. I can use PHP5, but little PEAR or PECL support. I can use MySQL. I can do custom installations of PHP, to allow PEAR and PECL support, but it requires jumping through hoops. I can install Ruby on Rails, but it's *really* slow.

What do you guys use for hosting, and how good about programming are they?

~Artemis

I use Dreamhost too, and i do agree about the programming side of it, but it's good value and the support is pretty good too.

Posted By Paddy on 18th Feb 08 at 11:32pm

 

Posted By Michael on 18th Feb 08 at 11:11pm

 

surpasshosting.com -> if you're quick $1 for their lowest (whch is still awesome!) shared hosting package.. take a look

It says I'll owe $60 next year...

~Artemis

That's still very good value!

I own my own VDS so I just set it up for w.e I need. I have my VDS through virpus.com , it's a pretty good host but they get ddos attacks alot.

I use UnlimitedMB; they're a bit too strict though, thus deterring me from some big plans I had ideas for, so I do plan on switching hosts in the near future.

However, they do have some very good prices for their plans.

Graham: Yeah, if I ever got a dedicated server, it'd probably be with them, because they've been so good with my shared...

Wrighty: True, I just don't like it when people lie to me from the get-go.

Dylan: At $50/month, I'd rather be able to access my host, thanks. xD

Marc: Strict how?

~Artemis

Hostzor.net

>.< My host =] I obviously use it. xD I'll give free hosting if anyone needs to test scripts, gfx, etc.

Posted By Paddy on 19th Feb 08 at 2:29am

 

Graham: Yeah, if I ever got a dedicated server, it'd probably be with them, because they've been so good with my shared...

Wrighty: True, I just don't like it when people lie to me from the get-go.

Dylan: At $50/month, I'd rather be able to access my host, thanks. xD

Marc: Strict how?

~Artemis

For example, they don't allow Cron jobs, no scripts that auto-update, until not too long ago they didn't allow htaccess, etc.

Posted By Marc on 19th Feb 08 at 3:35am

 

Posted By Paddy on 19th Feb 08 at 2:29am

 

Graham: Yeah, if I ever got a dedicated server, it'd probably be with them, because they've been so good with my shared...

Wrighty: True, I just don't like it when people lie to me from the get-go.

Dylan: At $50/month, I'd rather be able to access my host, thanks. xD

Marc: Strict how?

~Artemis

For example, they don't allow Cron jobs, no scripts that auto-update, until not too long ago they didn't allow htaccess, etc.

Yeah, okay, not all about that... xD

~Artemis

Posted By Paddy on 19th Feb 08 at 2:29am

 

Graham: Yeah, if I ever got a dedicated server, it'd probably be with them, because they've been so good with my shared...

Wrighty: True, I just don't like it when people lie to me from the get-go.

Dylan: At $50/month, I'd rather be able to access my host, thanks. xD

Marc: Strict how?

~Artemis

Well I only pay $32 a month for a really good deal, I got a discount and double disk, bandwith, and ram and the uptime has only improved since i've been there. They got a new firewall and some other things and it's less and less it happens. There a good company who just seems to have one person that is intent to bring them down.

@Arty: It's a special offer... for valentines day, not at all a con.

I use surpass hosting, I got the $1 deal last year. They've given me the same support they give full paying customers, and I'm very satisfied with it

You even get to edit your own php.ini files.

Perhaps I misunderstood the invoice then. *shrug*

They don't really support changing the base webroot folder though, do they?

~Artemis

I use MaiHost, which is pretty good. Not enough space for me but if you want the other features, its pretty nice.

Yea, Maihost looks very cheap for hosting you should check it out.

Posted By Paddy on 19th Feb 08 at 6:40pm

 

Perhaps I misunderstood the invoice then. *shrug*

They don't really support changing the base webroot folder though, do they?

~Artemis

After one year, normal prices resume.

You mean say, /home/user/

Stuff in that folder? Yes, they do.

Not the /home/ folder tho.

Simie:

but I can't do /home/user/website1 as http://www.website1.com and then /home/user/website2 as http://website2.website1.com, if I wanted to..

Or even /home/user/cake/app/webroot as http://www.website1.com

~Artemis

Posted By Paddy on 22nd Feb 08 at 5:48pm

 

Simie:

but I can't do /home/user/website1 as http://www.website1.com and then /home/user/website2 as http://website2.website1.com, if I wanted to..

Or even /home/user/cake/app/webroot as http://www.website1.com

~Artemis

Is there some sort of advantage to that? You could just ask the host to do It I know if one of my clients asked me to change there web root for a specific domain I could do it.

Posted By Paddy on 22nd Feb 08 at 5:48pm

 

Simie:

but I can't do /home/user/website1 as http://www.website1.com and then /home/user/website2 as http://website2.website1.com, if I wanted to..

Or even /home/user/cake/app/webroot as http://www.website1.com

~Artemis

As Dylan said, is there any advantage to that?

I would expect them to allow that if you contacted them. I find their support system to be very quick and helpful. (They open ports for me in the firewall very often, which is nice of them )

Posted By Simie on 22nd Feb 08 at 10:33pm

 

Posted By Paddy on 22nd Feb 08 at 5:48pm

 

Simie:

but I can't do /home/user/website1 as http://www.website1.com and then /home/user/website2 as http://website2.website1.com, if I wanted to..

Or even /home/user/cake/app/webroot as http://www.website1.com

~Artemis

As Dylan said, is there any advantage to that?

I would expect them to allow that if you contacted them. I find their support system to be very quick and helpful. (They open ports for me in the firewall very often, which is nice of them )

I actually think it IS possible...

Posted By Michael on 22nd Feb 08 at 11:31pm

 

Posted By Simie on 22nd Feb 08 at 10:33pm

 

Posted By Paddy on 22nd Feb 08 at 5:48pm

 

Simie:

but I can't do /home/user/website1 as http://www.website1.com and then /home/user/website2 as http://website2.website1.com, if I wanted to..

Or even /home/user/cake/app/webroot as http://www.website1.com

~Artemis

As Dylan said, is there any advantage to that?

I would expect them to allow that if you contacted them. I find their support system to be very quick and helpful. (They open ports for me in the firewall very often, which is nice of them )

I actually think it IS possible...

"I would expect them to allow that if you contacted them."

I never said it wasn't =/

Without contacting them I meant!

I don't see how, unless you found some way using some obscure Apache settings (Maybe .htaccess...?)

*googles*

...

Nonetheless, it's not readily available- takes a special request.

It's handy, by the way, for having more than one domain per user account, and if you use a development framework like Cake, which needs your webroot to be $CAKE_INSTALL_DIR/app/webroot (it isn't majorly an issue if $CAKE_INSTALL_DIR actually ends up being the webroot, but I've always considered that sloppy.)

~Artemis

I'm pretty sure that no host will let you do that on your own, as Apache is not configured for it. I doubt that any host just happens to have it setup so that any user can edit webroot settings; as that's insecure.

... Dreamhost lets me do it. ^_^

I enter the (sub)domain I want, the user account I want it to be hosted under, and the folder I would like to have available from the root path, and it sets it up that way for me.

~Artemis

Do you have reseller privileges?

Nope. This is the lowest, cheapest available shared hosting package.

~Artemis

Posted By Paddy on 22nd Feb 08 at 5:48pm

 

Simie:

but I can't do /home/user/website1 as http://www.website1.com and then /home/user/website2 as http://website2.website1.com, if I wanted to..

Or even /home/user/cake/app/webroot as http://www.website1.com

~Artemis

1and1.com allows you to do that. You can point any domain or subdomain to any folder in your webspace. In my opinion 1and1 it is an excellent host, but the only thing that annoys me is the "Service Unavailable" messages that come up occasionally. Though that could be just my particular package and/or server...

Ahh I remember something now, I think I know why your guys host's let you do this, I was talking to a hostgator admin and he said (if your using cPanel ) you can't change the webroot because of the way cPanel is coded.

heres a host i found and its very cheap and like the best ever!

http://www.servage.net/