Hi Francesco, you don't have to go for VDS yet. Just go for GoDaddy's Unlimited Plan for US$14.99 (see if you can get a discount coupon somewhere but don't go through resellers). I forgot to look for discount coupon and I paid the full sum, LOL. You can also try Hostgator but I keep hearing about hitting the inode limit or something. GoDaddy is not the perfect host, but at least you don't have to close down your website. Not much technical support (including no help in transferring your website) but they have a lot of reference materials so I hardly contact them. In any case, with Mediawiki, most webhosts do not provide any technical support, always telling the same old story... "this is third-party software and we don't provide any technical support".
PM Poon On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Ekompute .info <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Francesco Petracca, you are indeed lucky to have Lunarpages as your > webhost. They didn't kick you out like what Maiahost did to me when they > claimed that I exceeded their 1.5% CPU usage limit for my Maiahost Multiple > Plan. > > I was in the midst of writing an article when my website was suddenly > suspended. I immediately contacted Online Chat Help and was told that I > touched 2.6% CPU limit. I then contacted Technical Support and they said I > touched 10%! When I asked for proof because of the discrepancy (2.6% vs > 10%), they said they will give me in a few days time. Maybe they need to > adjust something or discuss how to explain away the discrepancy, LOL. > > I disabled Dummipedia.org, my biggest website, and offered to disable some > smaller ones, too, but they insisted that I MUST upgrade to VDS or get lost. > I asked them whether it is true that once you touch 1.5%, there is no > turning back, even if I disabled some of my websites and they just said: "We > don't want you here." > > And the big joke is I don't even have a total of 500 visitors a day for all > my websites added together. Remember I bought a Maiahost Multiple Plan, not > a Single Plan. My monthly bandwidth transfer was only 5% of the advertised > allocation of 50G (ie. 2,352MB) and I was using Mediawiki Version 1.14, not > 1.15. > > So Mediawiki users, beware who you choose to host for your websites. > Lunarpages does indeed sound like a very good webhost. > > PM Poon > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Francesco Petracca wrote: >> > I've implemented the file caching for now. Being that I have a lot >> > more browsing visitors than editors, I think that should make a >> > noticeable difference. I'm going to keep an eye on the situation and >> > see if that makes a dent. If not I'll have to look into the other >> > solutions and see which I could carry out in the shared host >> > environment. Shell access is available but costs a little extra, and >> > the list of functions disabled are located here >> > http://wiki.lunarpages.com/Disabled_JailShell_Commands >> >> The only command you may miss from that list is 'make', in case you need >> to compile something. In that case you may have more luck compiling on a >> system similar enough and copying the binary. And if you're going to be >> copying binaries, you may not need shell. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > > > > -- > PM Poon > > * http://dummipedia.org The 5-Minute Concise Encyclopedia > * http://dummipedia.com The Dummipedia Amazon Online Store > -- PM Poon * http://dummipedia.org The 5-Minute Concise Encyclopedia * http://dummipedia.com The Dummipedia Amazon Online Store _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
