[pmwiki-users] web hosting questions / offtopic
Russ Fink
russfink at hotmail.com
Sun Jan 28 09:26:54 CST 2007
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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