NYCPHP Meetup

[Brian Williams]

Mike,

Yeah, I've ran into hosts like that before.  As soon as they refuse to
accept even the remote possibility that they are at fault it's time to move
on, especially when it comes to a hack to that extent.

Did they even offer any logs that you could review so you could "fix your
software" (since they say that's at fault) ?

If you are ok with being a sys admin and ~25$ a month isn't too much, I
recommend getting a VPS through knownhost.com  I've been dealing with them
for about 2 years now and have never had a problem last longer than an hour,
and that was only one time.

You'll have dedicated IP addresses, dedicated mail server, dedicated DNS,
and just about anything else you want to install.  The biggest up side is no
chance of getting labeled as spam, or being at the mercy of someone elses
whims, you'll have complete control over php settings and apache configs,
and you'll be able to host however many domains,subdomains, etc you want.

No, I'm not affiliated with them, nor employed by them, I just a *very*
satisfied customer.  I originally started at the $20/month plan and have
since then upgraded twice.

Good luck


On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:43 PM, <mikesz at qualityadvantages.com> wrote:

>  Hello Brian,
>
>
> I checked all the points you made and thanks for taking the time.
>
>
> "It sounds like you'll need a crash course in Apache configuration..."
>
>
> That works for me here on my development system that is an XP pro Box
> running WAMPSERVER but unfortunately my host has all the marbles and seems
> now to be less than enthusiastic about learning Apache than I would expect.
> When I got the equivalent of "we are bulletproof" and you are not, I pretty
> much got the idea that they either don't know what they are doing or the
> "status quo" is a bigger priority than doing it right.
>
>
> I have seen this before, though not to this extent, where a tech will say
> "but they are configured identically" and when you do a phpinfo.php on each
> of them, its like they are on different planet and clearly configured by
> different people with totally different compile instructions.
>
>
> I think your first point, and the one made by a few other people who
> replied to me is the most relevant now, need to go hunting for a host again
> clearly.
>
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
> --
>
> Best regards,
>
>  mikesz                            mailto:mikesz at qualityadvantages.com<mikesz at qualityadvantages.com>
>
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