Re: a good hosting experience

Wow. Julie is on this list! // send note to self to modify filter and sort for good tips... Hi Julie. LOVED your book. With regard to Hurricane Electronic- we (Abriasoft) use them for our colocating, and they have always been very proffesional and fair to deal with. They have a really nice facility, its clean and well run. Anyway, I don't know squat about their virtual hosting. Does their virtual hosting provide webDAV support? If yes, does it do it right for dynamic content? i.e. Alias /Linux_Pages/ "/var/www/Linux_Pages/" Alias /Linux_Pages-src/ "/var/www/Linux_Pages/" <Directory "/var/www/Linux_Pages"> Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all AuthType Basic AuthName DAV AuthUserFile dav.auth </Directory> followed by a <IfModule mod_dav.c> DAVLockDB /var/apache/dav/moddav DAVMinTimeout 600 <Location /Linux_Pages-src/> DAV On ForceType text/plain <Limit PUT POST PROPFIND PROPPATCH MKCOL COPY MOVE LOCK UNLOCK> Require user michael </Limit> </Location> </IfModule> The ForceType in the mod_dav directive lets me use webDAV client like Goliath on MacOS or DAVExplorer on Linux to get the php source without it being processed first- but I haven't yet found a host that provides webDAV and sets up an extra alias for getting the source php unparsed, which is what you really want 'cause dynamic content is definately the way to go. If anyone knows of a hosting company that does that- I'd love to hear about it. I suppose I could just get a 1U- but $200/mo is steep for a non profit making personal site... ;) Thanks for any suggestions/comments Julie Meloni wrote: > > As a follow-up to the "Terrible Hosting Experience" posts, here's a > "Good Hosting Experience" post. > > I completely and unabashedly recommend Hurricane Electric (www.he.net), > for virtual or dedicated hosting. AND...they're not paying me a thing to > say that. :) > > They have virtual host packages starting at ten bucks. thickbook.com > runs on a thirty bucks a month virtual hosting package, and it's just > fine (as far as I can tell). PHP 4, MySQL at all levels of pricing, and > you can control local PHP values with .htaccess, just fine. > > I also have a 1U dedicated server there for $200/mo > (www.mytrainingcamp.com) and am ecstatic about it. > > So, go Hurricane! > > - Julie > > +----------------------------------------+ > | Julie Meloni (julie@thickbook.com) | > | | > | "PHP Essentials" and "PHP Fast & Easy" | > | http://www.thickbook.com | > +----------------------------------------+ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michael A. Peters Abriasoft Senior Developer