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06-12-2011, 05:44 PM #1Newbie
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Common Problems and Frustrations with Shared Hosting?
What are common problems with Shared Hosting that companies have?
Also what are things that frustrate you with Shared hosting?
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06-12-2011, 05:49 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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Shared resource usage. But it's hard to get frustrated over $5 a month.
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06-12-2011, 05:51 PM #3Web Hosting Industry Expert
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06-12-2011, 05:55 PM #4Newbie
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What were your expectations?
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06-12-2011, 05:59 PM #5Web Hosting Industry Expert
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Not mine, I mean in general. When I've seen people complaining about shared hosting usually one of the following apply:
- They paid an extremely small amount of money and expected the world.
- They paid a decent amount but expected dedicated-server level of system resources available to them.
There are those who do live and learn and then there are those who go from provider to provider, always blaming the provider and never accepting the responsibility that their site is simply too heavy for a shared environment as-configured.█ Michael Denney - MDDHosting.com - Proudly hosting more than 37,700 websites since 2007.
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06-12-2011, 06:33 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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stuff i want / annoys me:
- ipv6 addr for every subdomain
- ssh by default
- hate cpanel
- hate plesk
- DA is acceptable but barely
- postgresql
- mongo
- nosql stuff, redis, etc
- cpanel default has some remotedns crap - they want me to use THEIR (on 99.999% of providers) nonredundant nameservers, with no access to anything (no SRV TXT PTR AAAA etc)
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06-12-2011, 06:37 PM #7Aspiring Evangelist
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Quantumphysics: What is it you specifically don't like about CPanel? Just the general layout/usage of the thing, or the fact it doesn't provide integration with things like Mongo and Redis? I ask because you seem like a competent user who would not really require the panel for anything other than setting up zones and the like.
I debated long and hard over whether I wanted to go the CPanel route and end up probably writing a lot of custom addons, or go ground up. Eventually, CPanel won out, mostly due to user favour. It's interesting to hear from a guy that doesn't apply to.
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06-12-2011, 06:41 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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(command line here mainly)
I don't particularly like cPanel because it babies you. 99% of people using cPanel have /etc/remotedns set or something so you can't just point an A over from your own redundant DNS servers.
DNS settings are a pain. As an enduser customer you can only add A or CNAME. I don't like subdomains being domainroot.com/folder. There's no IPv6 support which should have been in years ago. Anything beyond PHP/MySQL it pretty much just.. doesn't work for.
Deploying Rails/Django/etc on cPanel shared hosting is an exercise in frustration.
This is just my opinion, I'm probably not the 'average user', but just saying.
edit: also part of the thing is that while I can submit a ticket for some of those things, I absolutely hate having to do so, it makes me feel kinda guilty due to the amount I pay per month usually
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06-12-2011, 08:07 PM #9Moving the Web Forward
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06-12-2011, 08:16 PM #10Aspiring Evangelist
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I think most of those points (the ones without qualification) were stuff he wants, rather than the whole list being things he doesn't like.
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06-12-2011, 09:03 PM #11Disabled
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06-13-2011, 02:20 PM #12Web Host Reviewer
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06-13-2011, 03:41 PM #13Retired Moderator
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Originally Posted by quantumphysicsNot as active on WHT as I used to be, but still drop in and receive email notifications from here.
My personal blog site: https://www.oakleys.org.uk/blog
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06-13-2011, 04:15 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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06-13-2011, 06:23 PM #15WHT Addict
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