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lance1413

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Best Host & Hosting Configuration
December 27, 2010, 09:23:11 am
I have switched between godaddy, to site5 and I am still looking for a hosting company and a configuration that makes civicrm an enjoyable experiance.  Besides, a rediculous amount of errors due to the hosting companys configuration, I have encountered unreasonably slow servers, especially with godaddy.  My research has turned up Anhosting which further reaserch has turned up that anhosting is part of a larger company with different divisions. ANhosting is just one. 

Any suggestions on a good hosting company and a minimal requirement on services that is econimical and will give me a good experiance throughout the course of building the site.  I am currently only in the development phase so cost is an issue.

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Re: Best Host & Hosting Configuration
December 27, 2010, 09:28:54 am
Disclosure: CiviHosting is my company.

I would recommend CiviHosting. As noted on our site, we are CiviCRM hosting specialists:

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Linux hosting is our expertise and our servers are optimized for CiviCRM hosting with Drupal or Joomla!

and we have a "100% satisfaction guaranteed or your money back" policy.

For further information, please refer to our site and feel to free to contact us with any questions whatsoever.

Thank you.
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lance1413

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Re: Best Host & Hosting Configuration
December 27, 2010, 09:34:50 am
Is support 24/7, is shared hosting sufficient to get started, or is it too slow to be an enjoyable experiance? 

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Re: Best Host & Hosting Configuration
December 27, 2010, 09:48:34 am
Yes, our Support Team works 24/7 all year 'round. Shared hosting is without question sufficient for small to medium sized CiviCRM installations. Refer to our Testimonials page to see what our clients have to say about the service.

I think it's best to carry on this discussion privately, as this forum is not, in my opinion, the ideal place for this. I will contact you offline.

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Re: Best Host & Hosting Configuration
December 27, 2010, 12:00:35 pm
@lance1413: I have had quite enough of shared web hosting. VPS environments for us in the future.

Warning about VPS though... the softwares used to host the VPS environment are not equal. We chose to stay with our current provider and go with one of their VPS packages. Said VPS is not upgradable to higher releases of the OS from the OS project, is not compatible with IPTables firewall, unable to obtain remote console access (to watch for boot time errors, fix SSHD if it should get disabled / misconfigured), the provider "did something" to our VPS and that "something" caused inode's of files to change causing a panic when routine security scans of the box reported a huge number of files we then suspect, and other gottchas.

On the plus side, NO MORE CPU Utilization police killing cron.php when it is drawing "too much CPU power" in the providers opinion.

Going from shared hosting where the DB servers were not on the same box as the webserver downsizing to everything being on the one VPS server... turns out that is actually much faster. I was concerned at first we were headed for worse performance. Not so.

Currently VMware and Xen look like environments that are able to run Linux VPS's installed right from the official distro ISO images... none of this distro customization nonsense we are encountering with the product our hosting provider uses.
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Re: Best Host & Hosting Configuration
December 28, 2010, 01:50:57 pm
@lance1413 / All:

Perhaps CiviHosting is a shared web hosting provider... I can not speak about them specifically as I have never used their service. I was speaking about providers in general... such nonsense seems to be the norm for shared web hosting providers in general. If not with them, then that is indeed exceptional service!  :o

With VPS, the only way the provider can tamper with the environment is to shut down the entire VPS. They do not (should not) have control to kill off one process they deem to be running for too long of a time within your VPS environment. However, like we have found, they have the power to do "something" to the VPS to cause inode numbers to chance, with the particular VPS software our VPS is powered by.
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