[pmwiki-users] web hosting questions / offtopic

[Mark Trumpold]

I sympathise

I went through similar situations as I use mine for education purposes with
my high school.

The one I transferred to (just two weeks ago) was http://www.dot5hosting.com
they're cheap and offer a bunch of stuff. It linux not windows and already I
have found a difference.

Anyway .. I used these guys to help decide on a new host
http://www-thehostingchart.com/

Have a look and good luck

Mark


On 28/1/07 5:26 PM, "Russ Fink" <russfink at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> My sincere apologies for going off-topic, but in order to provide the
> superior interactive user experience as compared to "flash sites" or flat
> pages, the PmWiki software has some requirements that other software might
> not, and so I would like to solicit your experiences.
> 
> This past week, my wife purchased a business and premiered a website at the
> same time on one of these lower cost (not bargain) hosting providers.  I
> signed up because the site looked good, it had guarantees, live chat
> support, a ticket system, and offered high bandwidth.
> 
> Since then, the site has been down - an outage in excess of 15 minutes per
> incident - on at least 3 occasions in the past 3 days.  Not very good when
> you're trying to build wiki content.  Yesterday, for instance, the techs
> said that they were going through a data center migration, and that all the
> work was done - but then at noon, the site was down again for a half hour.
> When it hasn't been down, it's been slow.  This causes things like the
> PmWiki default skin, which uses tables, to pop up the sidebar full-width
> until the main page loads in, causing at best user confusion.
> 
> The site I'm running is informational, and it's low bandwidth.  I'm using
> the CMS-like, AuthUser, and google maps recipies, and I'm highly pleased
> with the results; I have certain users as editors, they get to see certain
> screens that the normal visitors do not need to see, edits are properly
> locked down, and even RSS feeds (though the owner doesn't want this) are
> properly constrained.
> 
> Can someone please point me to a reputable provider that offers the kinds of
> things PmWiki needs - I'm still tweaking the CSS and would like to have SSH
> access, and also I'm using some rewrite recipe so I'd like .htaccess as
> well.  I don't want to resort to virtual servers.  (I read Patrick's thread
> from 2005 when he went to apollo hosting, but the lower end plans from
> apollo are somewhat spartan.)
> 
> Also, for performance, am I better off seeking providers that offer low
> bandwidth as opposed to those that offer high bandwidth?  I'm wondering if
> I'm co-hosted with high bandwidth sites, is that causing me a performance
> problem?
> 
> If there's a mailing list for this kind of thing, can someone please point
> me to that?
> 
> Thanks,
> Russ
> 
> PS: I tried Google.  One of the annoying things is that there must be a
> consortium of hosting providers that stands up puppet sites with names like
> "the-worlds-best-hosting-providers.com", and pay bazillions in adwords,
> which then only seem to point you to a select group of 5 providers, probably
> all managed by the same parent company.  There was even one site that you
> could click on providers by state - but all states pointed back to the same
> 4 or 5 providers - and the provider I'm unhappy about is, ... guess what...
> one of those 5.  If anyone cares to see my site, it's
> www.finalscoreohio.com.
> 
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