Hi, I?ve been hunting around the forum for a week now trying to find a host to meet my specific requirements, and I would appreciate some advice now that I have talked to a bunch of them with no ideal candidate. Here is what I am looking for (although feel free to question my choices ? I am sure the average person here knows much more than I do about hosting):
Necessary:
Running MySQL no lower than version 4.1.7
Does not overly restrict SQL queries, # concurrent db connections, or CPU usage so that running a forum is impossible.
Permits piping email to scripts (modifying a user?s .forward file to forward email to a shell script).
Provides shell access or some way to execute shell commands via a web interface (so I can add a user?s .forward file and chmod the script it will forward to so it is executable).
99.9% uptime or thereabouts
Good customer support
Shared host
Preferable:
Around $15-$25 per month would be nice, but more is OK if necessary to meet requirements. (I plan to start off for a few months just developing with a low $ plan, and then upgrade to a higher cost plan)
Provides a shared server that is not a virtual private server (on account of CPU limitations on the latter).
Server is on a network cluster for greater uptime.
Unimportant:
Bandwidth and storage limitations are not a big deal. My site is primarily text with a MySQL db that should not go above a couple hundred MB.
Additional Info:
I am currently using modwest.com, but they do not allow piping email, and I definitely need this for my new scripts.
So far based on searching various forums and seeing what people recommend highly, the likely candidates for what I want have been pair.com, brinkster and cartikahosting.com, but pair.com restricts db queries to 1500 per hour which is too low, and Cartika is running an older version of MySQL that will break my scripts. I also talked to Brinkster but they said I can?t pipe email to scripts because their web servers are separate from the mail servers.
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your help.
Necessary:
Running MySQL no lower than version 4.1.7
Does not overly restrict SQL queries, # concurrent db connections, or CPU usage so that running a forum is impossible.
Permits piping email to scripts (modifying a user?s .forward file to forward email to a shell script).
Provides shell access or some way to execute shell commands via a web interface (so I can add a user?s .forward file and chmod the script it will forward to so it is executable).
99.9% uptime or thereabouts
Good customer support
Shared host
Preferable:
Around $15-$25 per month would be nice, but more is OK if necessary to meet requirements. (I plan to start off for a few months just developing with a low $ plan, and then upgrade to a higher cost plan)
Provides a shared server that is not a virtual private server (on account of CPU limitations on the latter).
Server is on a network cluster for greater uptime.
Unimportant:
Bandwidth and storage limitations are not a big deal. My site is primarily text with a MySQL db that should not go above a couple hundred MB.
Additional Info:
I am currently using modwest.com, but they do not allow piping email, and I definitely need this for my new scripts.
So far based on searching various forums and seeing what people recommend highly, the likely candidates for what I want have been pair.com, brinkster and cartikahosting.com, but pair.com restricts db queries to 1500 per hour which is too low, and Cartika is running an older version of MySQL that will break my scripts. I also talked to Brinkster but they said I can?t pipe email to scripts because their web servers are separate from the mail servers.
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your help.
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