I’ve been hunting around for a new host for some or all of my websites. Since starting to work with PHP scripts for the news management on the Cardiff Tri and Cardiff Jif websites, the current host’s performance has been very poor. I also want to add user maintainable galleries and polling systems, but their software will not allow it, and they charge a fortune (if you’re a club website) for mySQL databases. And don’t forget those two websites were both knocked out, mid-week, for a few days a little while ago, and they lost some of my data. So it’s time to move somewhere cheaper, more reliable and with more to offer.
The current option is HostOne. They offer a hell of a lot of services for a very reasonable cost, so I asked for a trial before purchasing. So far, their control panel interface, FTP and support services have been excellent. But I can’t access my pages within a web browser to test my PHP on their servers. I have received 8 emails from them so far today as they rapidly respond to each of my queries. Very good. Hopefully we can solve the problem before they go home, so I can set up a gallery tonight and have a good playtest. The problem is caused by the fact that I haven’t transferred a domain to the test server (impossible to do in a 48 hour test), so we’re messing about with fixed IP addresses and it’s all a little messy.
Fingers crossed.
