Suggest new web host for CGA

Tek7 (Legacy)

Tek7 (Legacy)

CGA & ToJ President
Our forums are slow as Moses riding a giant snail stuck in a trench flooded with molasses. It recently came to my attention that the responsibility to select a new web host falls to me, since I pay for the hosting. Heh.

So, I'm taking suggestions for new web hosts. Please, please, PLEASE supply as much information as possible when you post as this is a very serious and weighty decision. Anyone who's ever migrated a web site from one host to another knows how much of a NIGHTMARE it can be.

Just to let you all know, we're looking for a site with tons of storage, preferably unlimited transfer, and at least CGI, PHP, and mySQL support. All three are necessary.

Suggest away, good people! I'll try to keep an eye on this thread and be in contact with our webmaster about new web host candidates as well.
 
1and1.com

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Quote[/b] ]PACKAGE FEATURES
 

Webspace   Monthly Transfer Volume   FTP accounts

500 MB                    5 GB                          1

1000 MB                 15 GB                          5

2000 MB                 30 GB                         25
   
4.99                       9.99                        19.99
                         1x MySQL                3x MySQL
                             100mb                    100mb

UnlimitedDomain Handling / multiple Site Handling

Ready to run CGIs library
 
Free CGI programming
(PHP 3, PHP 4, Python, Perl)

Advanced Developer Tools

 Server Side Includes (SSI)
Click to expand...

 www.1and1.com

Cory
 
Slow? Hawk moving the forums from the flat file format to MySQL has made a huge improvement in the forum speed. I don't have any complaints.

As far as the CGA webpage, I can tell you why that thing is slow. Too many images and tables. Takes a long time for certain browsers to render. Try finding a phpnuke template that uses less images and more DIV tags. That should help speed the rendering of the general CGA page. I don't see a reason to switch yet. Especially as cheap as the current host is, you are not going to find better performance unless you start paying more a month.
 
The forums are much much faster but I know the server that we are on is overloaded. Last time I looked at their /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file, they had over 700 websites defined !! That is HUGE! On the flipside I happen to know it is a quad Xeon 2.4 server with only 1 GB of RAM (great deal of swapping going on) on a hardware SCSI RAID (3Ware) Controller and I believe 5 physical drives in a RAID 5 config. I believe the source of the probelm is the lack of RAM. Current the box is using 1/4 of the swap space. Ggive it more physical RAM and I believe our problems would go away.

As an option, here is a good deal from Glotat @ $7.50 US a month (details) ...

2,000 MB web server space
2,000 POP e-mail Accounts
60 GB data transfer
24-hour FTP/Control Panel Access
Support for Multiple Domain Pointers ($12 per pointer)
MS FrontPage 2002, Flash, MYSQL, PHP4, PERL5 and SSI Support
Your very own cgi-bin directory
Stats Package (analyze your traffic)
Unlimited e-mail forwarding, alias & autoresponders
Geographical domain hosting
Web based e-mail
Web based account management center


For those of you interested, this is the company currently being used and the plan we use:

http://www.phpwebhosting.com/host_details.html

And if I may be so bold, CGA does not charge for anything and yet someone (Tek7) has to pay to keep this going. It is easy to complain about stuff, how about ponying up and show your support in this. Be part of the solution folks, its too easy to be on the other side.
 
I highly recommend PowWeb

1 GB of disk, 5 GB bandwidth/day, 10 MySQL DB, $7.77/mo

I have this for Pure Fun, and I am very happy with it
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Hrm. *scratches chin sagely* I believe we can stay with phpwebhosting for the time being. Since Hawk switched the forums from using a flat database to mySQL, they are once again reasonably speedy.

The web site itself is still a bit sluggish, but I believe switching the site skin or "theme" would do wonders for speeding it up. If anyone has suggestions for a groovy yet dial-up-friendly PHP-Nuke theme, please post the name and a download link to this thread.
 
Good deal, Tek. I do agree that the mySQL move made quite an improvement.

And, really, they allow 5 gigs per 24 hour period, but it's a great deal.
 
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