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05-24-2005, 07:20 PM #1New Member
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Looking for a good, inexpensive, reliable host
Hi gang,
I'm trying to set up a phpBB board for a local community site. I signed up with GoDaddy's basic hosting plan, but was soon frustrated to discover that this hosting plan doesn't allow shell access or cron jobs. This is a problem since I need them in order to run the M2F mod, allow email posts and distributions lists from the forum.
So, I guess I'm looking for a new host -- someone that's inexpensive, reliable, and allows access for things like cron jobs and/or shell access. GoDaddy has this capability, of course, but requires a pricey $40-$100/month plan.
Any suggestions?
Alternatively, does anyone know of some good forum software that I could use for this purpose, without requiring cron job support? That way I could stay with GoDaddy and just change software. Any thoughts there?
Many thanks.
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05-24-2005, 08:04 PM #2Newbie
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http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...36#post3110236
They have both SMF and phpBB. Very inexpensive.
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05-24-2005, 08:06 PM #3Junior Guru
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i would do a search on wht you will find some great hosts
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05-24-2005, 08:11 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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Use the host quote feature on WHT http://www.webhostingtalk.com/request.php
Or you can use the search feature http://www.webhostingtalk.com/search.php
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05-24-2005, 08:12 PM #5New Member
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Originally posted by webster13045
i would do a search on wht you will find some great hosts
Thanks for the suggestion, colorado. I'll check it out.
For future reference, I also need at least one MySQL db.
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05-24-2005, 08:17 PM #6Junior Guru
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Re: Looking for a good, inexpensive, reliable host
Originally posted by Quimbly
So, I guess I'm looking for a new host -- someone that's inexpensive, reliable, and allows access for things like cron jobs and/or shell access. GoDaddy has this capability, of course, but requires a pricey $40-$100/month plan.
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05-24-2005, 10:20 PM #7virtualizing the world
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The Shared Hosting and Reseller Account Offers forum provides the latest deals offered by various hosting companies. Most of them are very affordable, however I HIGHLY encourage you to do a search on the company before you sign up with them.
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05-24-2005, 11:51 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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lunarpages.com, site5.com, hostrocket.com, dreamhost.com, etc all have pretty good ratings on here.
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05-25-2005, 12:49 AM #9Newbie
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Yes, there are very many hosts out there. Just browsing through these forums you see many people talking about some of the major companies. A lot of finding a web host that suites you involves looking around and just trying out their services for a month. Some small hosts may suprise you.
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05-25-2005, 01:15 AM #10Junior Guru Wannabe
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Ugh, Go Daddy ..... [shiver]
Maybe I should start (or add to the plethora of other GD threads), but how many GD refugees do you guys get a month? I bet we get at least 10-20...
I find it personally gratifying that customers that leave us because our 'prices for [our] packages are higher than Go Daddy's' almost always come back with renewed vigor for our product...
David beats Goliath (with $10mil marketing budget) again!
Good luck with your search, this is the place to look,
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05-25-2005, 07:10 AM #11WHT Addict
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Yes dwieland,
Last month one of our old clients (been with us for last 3 years) left for godaddy because of the price and last week re-signed up. Good for them we didn't terminate his account was waiting for end of month.
Godaddy is a big company and they are overselling too (huge I mean) it is important to note that big companies donn't give person to person support that well. It is instead very normal for small companies to care about their clients from a personal view. They need you :-)
Go for a medium size company who have been for business least 2/3 years this way you can be sure their business plan is fine and they are not going to packup soon. Good luck.
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05-25-2005, 08:45 AM #12Web Hosting Master
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There are good hosts that participate regularly in these forums. As far as hosts I can recommend based on personal experience in using their services, I like Site5 and Lunar Pages.
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05-25-2005, 11:10 AM #13Web Hosting Master
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I agree with DevilDog. Off the top of my head, I believe Micfo does offer shell access also, as a basic feature on all plans.
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05-25-2005, 04:59 PM #14Newbie
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yes u can check the offer section.
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05-25-2005, 04:59 PM #15Temporarily Suspended
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Try www.hostingzoom.com they have great support and are really really reliable.
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05-25-2005, 05:02 PM #16Web Hosting Master
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Quimbly,
Quite a few hosts will have no issue meeting your requirements - just a note however: You may not necessarily need to use a cronjob to get the job done.
Most of the time it's just a .php file being called externally or via a local copy of lynx.
You could setup your home machine to call the same .php file remotely to have it run.
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05-25-2005, 06:41 PM #17WHT Addict
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Actually with any cPanel hosts its pretty easy to setup cron no need for shell access :-)
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