Re: What would you want in a PHP web host?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Fischer" <ryan@gigabee.com> > > Are hosting companies reluctant to give you more access rights? > > Usually, and that really sucks, because I've found myself having to set > up my own "pseudo-server" on my computer, with PHP4, Apache, and MySQL, > just to develop, because the hosts I've found are very reluctant to > either upgrade from PHP, or build PHP with the necessary extensions I > need. IMO, PHP4 on web hosts should always be compiles with *all* > options, so there will be no issue there. And it should always be > upgraded to the newest stable version within a week of its release. > This may be asking a lot, but people should get what they pay for, > right? I'm in the same boat but fortunately I've got a great web host who would give me access to set up my own install. Is this possible? Any relavent documentation anywhere? Thanks Joel