On 1/28/07, Russ Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
About a year back I did quite a bit of research into various ISP's and settled on BlueHost primarily because it seemed to have first rate customer support. I have not been disappointed in the least. I'd recommend looking there, though there are probably others that are also good, and you will likely get a barage of other suggestions from the list... Cheers, Dan _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
