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[pesnax]

Hi

I’m looking for European hosting. I have looked in the offers section but need some recommendations of hosts. The servers should be in Europe, really stable and have daily backups, fast and friendly support, php/mysql, custom php.ini and cron jobs allowed.

Do you host with a hosting company you can recommend?

[040Hosting]

Originally Posted by Xana

Hi

I’m looking for European hosting. I have looked in the offers section but need some recommendations of hosts. The servers should be in Europe, really stable and have daily backups, fast and friendly support, php/mysql, custom php.ini and cron jobs allowed.

Do you host with a hosting company you can recommend?

Do you have any more requirements, like the country they should be in, and in which language support should be ?

Also; people often search European hosting to avoid some laws in the US, if so, also mention this as most european hosts will not allow your content in such case, although some are known to be a bit more relaxed on the subject.

Other as that you will find many European hosts which fits your request. Most do deliver daily backups (but make sure you ask them about it). cPanel host with suPHP will give you the ability to use your own php.ini and often have cron jobs allowed as well; although it might be smart to explain why you need the cron job to avoid disapointment (i.e. running a cron every minute might not be what most sharedhosts want).

As last your budget if available might help others to point you to the right direction.

[pesnax]

Originally Posted by 040Hosting

Do you have any more requirements, like the country they should be in, and in which language support should be ?

Also; people often search European hosting to avoid some laws in the US, if so, also mention this as most european hosts will not allow your content in such case, although some are known to be a bit more relaxed on the subject.

Other as that you will find many European hosts which fits your request. Most do deliver daily backups (but make sure you ask them about it). cPanel host with suPHP will give you the ability to use your own php.ini and often have cron jobs allowed as well; although it might be smart to explain why you need the cron job to avoid disapointment (i.e. running a cron every minute might not be what most sharedhosts want).

As last your budget if available might help others to point you to the right direction.

I was thinking about $ 10 per month!The reason I was choosing
European hosting was that most of my customers will live in Europe.
About cron jobs – only a few every six hours.

[040Hosting]

Originally Posted by Xana

I was thinking about $ 10 per month!The reason I was choosing
European hosting was that most of my customers will live in Europe.
About cron jobs – only a few every six hours.

Any Diskspace/Bandwidth requirements ?

[-Edward-]

Originally Posted by Xana

Hi

I’m looking for European hosting. I have looked in the offers section but need some recommendations of hosts. The servers should be in Europe, really stable and have daily backups, fast and friendly support, php/mysql, custom php.ini and cron jobs allowed.

Do you host with a hosting company you can recommend?

Why the need for a custom php.ini ?

[IH-Rameen]

Originally Posted by GeekSRV

Why the need for a custom php.ini ?

Because sometimes one size doesn't fit all.. I don't think it's an uncommon request. Some scripts require certain php modules to be enabled or have different limits. With a php.ini you can deviate from settings your host has set.

[pesnax]

Originally Posted by 040Hosting

Any Diskspace/Bandwidth requirements ?

I was tinking about 2 GB space and 10 BG bandwith. But the most important is that it is a well stablished company offering "fast" support.

[SiberForum]

Originally Posted by Xana

I was tinking about 2 GB space and 10 BG bandwith. But the most important is that it is a well stablished company offering "fast" support.

Hello!
I suppose if everything working properly you will not need support at all.

[Josh-A]

To get a decent amount of disk space (2 GB), monthly bandwidth (10 GB) and fast support ( 24x7x365 Email, Chat and Phone) you'll need to raise your budget by few more bucks.

[-Edward-]

Originally Posted by IH-Rameen

Because sometimes one size doesn't fit all.. I don't think it's an uncommon request. Some scripts require certain php modules to be enabled or have different limits. With a php.ini you can deviate from settings your host has set.

I still don't understand why you would wish todo that in a shared hosting environment - surely that's a security risk?

[Dan_EZPZ]

How would it be a security risk? The majority of people that need a custom php.ini want full control over values such as memory limits, timeouts, upload limits and to load regular PHP modules that the host doesn't have.

[-Edward-]

Setting sensible limits within your system wide php.ini would be more sensible surely, do you really want people messing with things like memory limits? surely you put them there for a reason and if they are sensibly set there is no need to allow customers to push limits upwards to silly levels risking server performance.

I guess there are some plus points to custom php.ini's but allowing customers to manipulate things in a shared environment doesn't seem right to me, although i'm happy to have egg on my face

[040Hosting]

Originally Posted by GeekSRV

Setting sensible limits within your system wide php.ini would be more sensible surely, do you really want people messing with things like memory limits? surely you put them there for a reason and if they are sensibly set there is no need to allow customers to push limits upwards to silly levels risking server performance.

I guess there are some plus points to custom php.ini's but allowing customers to manipulate things in a shared environment doesn't seem right to me, although i'm happy to have egg on my face

Do you mean you do not run suphp and are waiting for one customers account to be hacked so your whole server can be infected ? suphp implies that your users run their own php.ini ; anyways;

If you do not choose that way they can set all setting for php in the .htaccess file; so i am not sure how you would define security here at all.

Likely the OP could set the settings he needed in a .htaccess as well if the php.ini option is not available.

[040Hosting]

Originally Posted by Xana

I was tinking about 2 GB space and 10 BG bandwith. But the most important is that it is a well stablished company offering "fast" support.

That seems like a decent amount with a decent budget to me, most hosts can offer you this; but you will need to do some research on the companies around. Unfortunately i can't recommend you any hosts in europe as we did not use any ourselves and thus have no personal experience with any of them.

[-Edward-]

Originally Posted by 040Hosting

Do you mean you do not run suphp and are waiting for one customers account to be hacked so your whole server can be infected ? suphp implies that your users run their own php.ini ; anyways;

Yes, We use suPHP but with custom php.ini's disabled