Hi everyone,
I desperately need some recommendations for hosting companies. In particular I need a company that will be amenable to the general demands of a moodle installation. The hosting company i have signed up with refuses to give me the full OS path so I can't complete my installation.
I look forward to hearing your suggestions. Thanks in advance,
Jordy
John
I signed up for the freehosting and never heard back, but my spam increased shortly thereafter. Same thing happened with a friend... signed up, nothing happened.
TotalChoiceHosting.com is pretty good. Cpanel, 300mb and 5.5gig of transfer, unlimited pop3, mysql databases, nd a bunch more for 4 bucks a month.
Thanks for the feedback on http://freehosting.phpfreaks.com/
doesn't sound too good.
I would recommend www.totalqualityhosting.com but then I own it so I would wouldn't I!?
I have lots of moodles runing now and they are going up at a rate of one a week.
Please constact me off list on steve@totalqualityhosting.com for more
For my test site I have been using ipowerweb.com for about a year. Then now offer 800MB for $8 a month. I have had no problems other than slightly inane (automated?) first support query responses. Ask them twice and they respond perfectly. They are one of the biggest low cost providers. Perhaps there is saftey in numbers?
But Total Choice Hosting gets a good buzz (other than a few isolated problems as mentioned above).
I tried the free hosting options while ago but I could get none of them to work.
http://www.yourhostsucks.com/
and
http://www.findmyhosting.com
seem to be good places to check upon a host.
Use Moodle to host your site; or make sure the hosting company provides the lastest version of "CPanel" or similar type application with which you have tons of control/features to design your Moodle.
dave-----
I am also looking for a host for my new moodle only site. I just purchased the domain name and need a reliable site where I can start publishing my Middle School Spanish Curriculum.
Any ideas for the easiest way to get this started?
Thanks in advance.
Ray Cox
I have had a hosting account here in Australia that includes Fantastico. This brilliant scripting tool is built into the control panel. It automatically installs Moodle (as well as 40 other open source applications) and also allows you to perform upgrades at the click of a button. I'm very happy with it, but not enough time in the day to play
Try http://www.tashosting.com for Australians needing a host. I find the local AU time support is excellent and can't recommend enough.
I can't speak for other service providers, but the Fantastico people have a list of providers on their website.
Cheers
Brett
I recommend Dreamhost.com They're still at Apache 1.3 but in the process of upgrading. You can get 500MB of storage for $9.95 or 1600 MB for $19.95. While we don't run very high volume, all of the machines have ben able to handle 35 simultaneous users (one class) each with no sweat, and we're a good order of magnitude below the bandwidth limits each month.
They aren't perfect, but they've always been willing to help figure stuff out and have pretty quick response with tech support. I'm running four moodle sites off of them for almost a year now and everything is swell
Here is one final thing you need to know if you do get dreamhost...they've got some wacky security restrictions, and it appears at first like you don't have GD installed and some other things -- but all is well with this one-line addition to an .htaccess file in your webroot
AddType php-cgi .php
If you do host through them I can help you set it up.(It'll take about ten minutes after your dns record and mysql database are set up....which will take about an hour)
Mark
Hey Mark,
Following your advice I went with Dreamhost, but I have having some problems. I know you posted to this forum over a year ago, but I could still use some advice. My problem is that my content can never find the SCORM API in IE on the first load. Did you ever run into this problem? If so, any advice for someone like me?
