Recommendations For A Joomla Website Hosting?

Apr 21, 2008

Any recommendations for a joomla website hosting?

Multiple domains one one account and such...

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Apr 21, 2008

A friend of mine basically just wants to get his business on the web. He wants a website that is entirely informational (e.g. no commerce or anything like that). Basically a home page with a couple of links to download some documents and some contact info.

He does not have a domain name, so he would need that.

And the person wants an easy to use website designer for this simple site.

My initial thoughts were:

Microsoft Office Live - but that doesn't seem to be totally free anymore.

Wordpress.com (I am not sure this would work as well especially if you wanted to post documents or something)

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One of my clients has joomla site installed on his hosting.

But recently his website always get hacked. Hacker put one index.html file in the public_html folder. luckily they not deleting file and database..

This is happen twice in one week, even he change the cpanel password to a more complex one...

anyway to prevent this? any way to harden the security?

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I'm considering to choose the baby package offered by Host Gator. Would that be a good choice?

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Is a joomla website hosted on windows a safe option.

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I am going to start a new personal / business website which will feature articles along with pictures and few videos, all managed through Joomla. I recently visited the official Joomla forum and found a thread which posted guidelines on choosing a proper Joomla hosting.

forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=95678

3. The most security conscious hosts turn PHP's Register Globals directive OFF by default. The next best allow you to turn it off in local .htaccess or php.ini files. A host that requires you to run a site with Register Globals ON should be avoided. This is true for any PHP enabled site, whether or not you are running Joomla!. There is a legitimate argument to be made by hosts for keeping Register Globals ON for PHP4 sites. This is that it would break too much legacy code. This argument should not be accepted for a PHP5 installation. Beginning with PHP5, the official PHP recommendation was to keep Register Globals is OFF. Note that beginning with PHP6, there will not even be a Register Globals setting, so don't get caught in a Register Globals backwater. Modify your code to work without Register Globals, and choose a host that encourages such practices.

6. Be sure users on your shared server can't view each other's files and databases, for example through shell accounts and cpanels.

7. Choose a host that provides real information about security compromises, rather than simply shutting your site down. Check their user forums for evidence of how they've responded to cracks in the past. A good host may for example, inform you immediately that a security breach has occurred and will quarantine the problem file for you, while leaving it there for further investigation. A poor host will shut your site down and provide very limited information on why. Watch out! All too many do this.

8. Be sure you have access to raw server logs. Reading these logs is a vital part of site security and recovery.

9. Choose a host that limits the number of users per machine and the average CPU load per machine to some reasonable number (depending on hardware). Be sure they proactively move user sites as needed to balance load. Check the number of domains on a server using reverse IP lookup.

10. Choose a host that manages it's own data center. Check the data center infrastructure, such as redundant Internet access, hot swappable backups, full daily backups, environment and access controls, emergency generators, etc.

11. Check that your host is not at risk of having its IP addresses blocked because it hosts porn or SMAM sites.

What alarmed me was #3, #6-#11

My Question is, how the hell am I supposed to check for these flaws? I thought I was going to settle down with Hostgator or Hostmonster, but now I am not sure.

If Hostmonster or Hostgator do not meet these requirement, can someone be kind enough to suggest some?

I don't expect that much of traffic, so I want to keep the budget minimal: below $8. I know that by limiting this budget, I am limiting the quality of hosting, but I am not ready to commit my resource to my first site: just an experimentation of my limits.

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Nov 2, 2008

I'm hungarian and my english is not very well. So I'm looking for a free hosting with the most space (for videos etc.) and in which Joomla can run correctly. I've been looking for a hosting like this for weeks now but I couldn't find any. I would be really grateful if anyone can show me a hosting like that.

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Apr 17, 2009

I am in the process of creating a site for my family, which is spread out around the world. I am using Joomla and have built my site on Siteground as my host.

My site will have low traffic, for family only, but I want my family to be able to post pictures, chat and blog.

I am very happy with Siteground but it has come to my attention that even though they offer 750gb of space I can only have up to 5gb of picture files (gif, jpg, etc.) I feel that I will eventually exceed this and being new at the whole site creation, I do not want to risk data being lost (database, files, etc.) when the time comes to transfer to a new host.

The site is not active yet as I am still working out the kinks and adding more pages. I figure if I am going to make a move to another host now would be the best time.

So I guess the question I have is what hosts, in your opinions, would be the best for the site I explained and still be able to work in Joomla.

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Apr 21, 2008

How do I, and is it even possible to host a joomla based website on a windows server.

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Aug 12, 2008

Can someone recommend a good, fast set up Windows (ASP.NET 2.0) host in Netherlands or Germany or France? Shared hosting with SQL Server 2005.

No UK please. I would prefer someone using the recommended host and has positive feed back.

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Dec 31, 2008

For the past 3 weeks I have been trying to set up a joomla web site.

At first, I tried to host a joomla website on liquid web's shared host.

They seemed to be quite good. They had all the feature I needed, but then I couldn't upload files into my webspace via ftp.

They told me they don't know what is the problem, and that I should use what is available.

I have stopped hosting at liquid web, and tried a different web host.
HostNexus.

There I had the same problem with myu ftp account, but they told me the problem is either in my firewall or ISP.

This really allowed me to look into a solution for this problem, and I partially solved it.

I believe this was the same problem I had with liquid web, but liquid web support didn't tell me the information that helped me to solve this problem.

Though my problems are not solved yet.

I need to create a ftp account into the httpdocs or public html folder so joomla could use it to update its own files.

I was able to create such ftp accounts in liquid web, but it is possible that I am unable to create such ftp account via the hostnexus control panel, and I have asked them if its possible for them to create me such an account.(Asked them topday, so I didn't get a reply yet).

Now, what should I do?

I need a ftp account in order for joomla to work properly.

Should I go back to liquid web?

Should I look for a different web host?

Maybe HostNexus will solve my problem, and all this will be irelavent.

But assuming host nexus won't solve my problem, what should I do?

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Jun 3, 2008

my friend and i are working on some web-based-commerce ideas and at current we're at godaddy.com. i can only imagine the vitriol they've rightfully earned here, as we decided to be done with them when the $30 SSL license they told us we could get one night quickly became $78 because there was a new "turboSSL server" package we needed, nevermind the guy the first time said with our hosting options we only needed to go through them for the SSL license, so basically, either the first guy lied to us or the second guy tried to hustle us, either way, i dont like companies whose sales model is revealed like the plot in a horror movie, so we're looking to go elsewhere.

basically we're looking for a virtual private server setup, although actually another question i'd love to ask someone is if joomla is better served on unix/linux or windows, with a few dozen accounts needed, and by accounts i mean domains and whatnot, as right now it's basically the blanket idea that you grab the names you need, or might go to if you change your mind on company names...

so basically, with all the people here talking about bad experiences with places, are there any good experience type places where someone can get competent tech support, no hustling in sales pitches, and quality service at a nice solid price?

again, sorry to show up and start asking for things, but i'm not necessarily well versed in these arts yet... rest assured once i have some information i shall contribute to the community and help others who are in my position now

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My boss has recently asked me to source a new host for our servers. At the moment we're running 8 Windows boxes but are unhappy with the service we're receiving from our hosting company. We are looking for a managed hosting company, that has offices in the UK and US to look after the servers.

At the moment we haven't nailed down our exact requirements so I'm just really looking for any recommendations you guys might have. I've done a wee bit of Googling and have found a company called Rackspace but I'm ideally looking to contact around 5 companies to see who can offer us the best deal.

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Hostgator looks like a good host however I just talked to them and they don't have ffmpeg....

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Everything worked fine except the indexing component as that required Java/JRE. Indexing is very important to me.

So all my hard work for the last 2 days came to a screeching halt.

I badly need to find a hosting service that offers LAMP + Java technologies for a decent price.

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Jun 14, 2008

I'd like to get your recommendations on how I should approach this problem. I posted this in another part of the forum, but I feel that this is a more appropriate place for it.

Problem:

How to handle large amounts of traffic with for a social network website? If a user uploads a photo or video, how does it become accessible on all of the server? If traffic is expected to be about 500,000 visitors a day, how many machines do you think I should use?

Possible Solution:

I've come up with the following possible infrastructure.

One load balancer. The load balancer has 3 PHP/Apache servers behind it. Behind each of the PHP/Apache servers is a (slave) MySQL server, from which data is read. Behind the slave MySQL servers, there is 1 master MySQL server, which handles all of the database writes. The master MySQL and slave MySQL servers are synced up, so data is up to date.

The actual photo and video files are not stored in the database, only the links to them is stored in the database (to keep the database small). The photo and video reside in a central location (like a SAN or NAS), which is accessible by all of the 3 PHP/Apache webservers.

Questions:

1. How many machines do you think will be able to handle photo and video uploads for 500,000 visitors a day?

2. Is having a SAN with Terabytes of RAIDED disk space an available option?

3. If a SAN or NAS is not an option, does anyone have any ideas on how to make sure all of the web servers have access to the same photos and videos? Is rsync a viable solution?

4. Which hosting provider do you think I should go with?

5. Is clustering what I need? What is clustering and how will it address my concerns?

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I'd like to get your recommendations on how I should approach this problem.

Problem:

How to handle large amounts of traffic with for a social network website? If a user uploads a photo or video, how does it become accessible on all of the server? If traffic is expected to be about 500,000 visitors a day, how many machines do you think I should use?

Possible Solution:

I've come up with the following possible infrastructure.

One load balancer. The load balancer has 3 PHP/Apache servers behind it. Behind each of the PHP/Apache servers is a (slave) MySQL server, from which data is read. Behind the slave MySQL servers, there is 1 master MySQL server, which handles all of the database writes. The master MySQL and slave MySQL servers are synced up, so data is up to date.

The actual photo and video files are not stored in the database, only the links to them is stored in the database (to keep the database small). The photo and video reside in a central location (like a SAN or NAS), which is accessible by all of the 3 PHP/Apache webservers.

Questions:

1. How many machines do you think will be able to handle photo and video uploads for 500,000 visitors a day?

2. Is having a SAN with Terabytes of RAIDED disk space an available option?

3. If a SAN or NAS is not an option, does anyone have any ideas on how to make sure all of the web servers have access to the same photos and videos? Is rsync a viable solution?

4. Which hosting provider do you think I should go with?

5. Is clustering what I need? What is clustering and how will it address my concerns?

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I'm not going to go pound the pavement for hosting business; this is only really for my clients I serve as a agency/consultant/designer and my clients need and deserve more.

I have been considering Mosso; but also weighing a dedicated box as it's around the same price and looking around here for the solutions people recommend for the past few hours. But since I sort of have a specialty application, I thought I'd ask for your recommendations.

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