I have gone through too many problems with trying to use Moodle with my GoDaddy account. I am looking for recommendations on where I should host my Moodle application. Initially, my needs will be small. I'm looking for something under $5 a month.
Any advice would be appreciated!
Under $5 a month isn't going to happen. Based on my experience with test sites, about the best "reliable and inexpensive shared host" is bluehost
Thanks Steve! I did some research on Bluehost and they appear to be an extremely good option. They're very affordable as well at $6.95 per month.
JH,
You (& SH) may be right. I would just point out that BlueHost is one of the two services that caused such a to-do over databases and Unicode (the other being HostMonster) as documented in Tracker issue MDL-11743. The "solution" is a work-around of their distortion of the default meaning of the SHOW VARIABLES query in MySQL; the only solution for the more reliable db PostgreSQL is to phone tech support and ask them to convert your database to UTF-8.
Anyway, here is my list of links that I have accumulated over the centuries on hosting:
Useful link for choosing a host:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=42688
also http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74789#p341332
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=80523#p357343 (former 1and1 cust.)
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-11743
Useful link on using slasharguments on Godaddy:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=53087#p368669
Useful links on installing on 1and1:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=76650#p341000
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=46400#p218563
RLE
You (& SH) may be right. I would just point out that BlueHost is one of the two services that caused such a to-do over databases and Unicode (the other being HostMonster) as documented in Tracker issue MDL-11743. The "solution" is a work-around of their distortion of the default meaning of the SHOW VARIABLES query in MySQL; the only solution for the more reliable db PostgreSQL is to phone tech support and ask them to convert your database to UTF-8.
Anyway, here is my list of links that I have accumulated over the centuries on hosting:
Useful link for choosing a host:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=42688
also http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74789#p341332
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=80523#p357343 (former 1and1 cust.)
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-11743
Useful link on using slasharguments on Godaddy:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=53087#p368669
Useful links on installing on 1and1:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=76650#p341000
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=46400#p218563
RLE
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET - the only reliable shared host I've seen
and it's under $5 a month for small sites
Moodle tests okay there, BTW
and it's under $5 a month for small sites
Moodle tests okay there, BTW
Can the latest version of moodle run on PHP 4.4.7? That is all that NearlyFreeSpeech offers right now.
RS,
According to http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_Moodle#Requirements,
yes, but Moodle 2.0 will require PHP5 (5.2.0 or later).
RLE
According to http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_Moodle#Requirements,
yes, but Moodle 2.0 will require PHP5 (5.2.0 or later).
RLE