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Aldo Bucchi
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Tuesday 22 April 2003 1:07:52 pm
I'm hunting for a reliable and cheap shared hosting isp that supports ezpublish3. I have searched through these forums and the web for testimonials but very little has come out of it.
Would anyone with a big and consolidated portal-sized ez website share his beautiful hosting experience with me and recommend a good, cheap, fast and reliable isp?
(I'm south american based, but any isp with connection to major US backbones would do it) Bad experiences welcome also! this thread can become very useful for many ezNewbies like me... Thx everyone :-)
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Sebastiaan van der Vliet
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Tuesday 22 April 2003 1:30:10 pm
Hi Aldo,
I can recommend HostRocket (http://www.hostrocket.com), a company in the US. Very good support, on request they will install ImageMagick as well. Extensive control panel to manage your account, excellent user forums.
Cheers,
Sebastiaan
Certified eZ publish developer with over 9 years of eZ publish experience. Available for challenging eZ publish projects as a technical consultant, project manager, trouble shooter or strategic advisor.
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Aldo Bucchi
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Tuesday 22 April 2003 11:40:48 pm
Thanks Sebastiaan
I hosted with them some 3 years ago, really good except for a couple of extended downtimes. However I'd happily give 'em another try, looks like they've managed to better their gear and spice their website a bit. They also claim to have ImageMagick and GD by default... that sounds nice to me.
Do you currently have a site running with hostrocket?
:-)Aldo
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Karsten Jennissen
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Wednesday 23 April 2003 12:25:20 am
Head over to http://www.webhostingtalk.com/. Very good source for the things you want to know.
Regards,
Karsten
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Gabriel Ambuehl
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Wednesday 23 April 2003 1:39:51 am
Being in the biz myself, I feel obliged to comment. Personally, I'd very much recommend you to go for a dedicated server or your ISP will pull the plug sooner than later. In our benchmarks, ezp3 does about 5 requests per second on a 2GHz machine (CPU bound, not I/O). Then again if you sustain that rate and your frontpage is say 50K, we're talking about burning 2.5mbit and no ISP is gonna allow you that on a shared account anyway. That having said, ImageMagick and GD are both installed on our servers ;-).
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Tony Wood
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Wednesday 23 April 2003 2:36:25 am
I agree, eZ3 does eat system power, Its one of the main reasons we created a hosting environment for clients we develop sites for, as you need to ensure an environment tailored for eZ3 to ensure higher throughput. We can also keep the relationship of clients to machine pretty low.
I understand, work is underway at eZ to speed things up , so the future is bright.
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Aldo Bucchi
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Wednesday 23 April 2003 10:36:33 am
Thx to everyone for their replies
Ok: ez3 is heavy to run, storage+cache+db will eat up some space (unpredictable at best) and handling any inconsistencies can get complicated due to it's relative complexity.
Despite this, is there anyone who has been able to run a big ez3 site smoothly for a considerable period of time in a shared hosting solution?
Can you post it (url, isp) ?
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Jørgen Skogstad
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Saturday 26 April 2003 11:50:24 am
Just one question. Why would you choose any other hosting provider than those that Ez certifies? I have just gotten Marlabs/Ez to setup the v3 for me and is now doing testing with it. Of course, it's alot of new stuff to get into.. but I chose to do the testing with someone that has close ties to Ez (either US or local based). Gives me a bit more confidence of support for some reason. Perhaps it is just me .. but .. that's my feeling. If they (Marlabs) screw up (which I do not think they will ever do though) I might just as well point the finger at Ez and ask them "what the %&!" etc. ;) .. just a note to bear in mind since the Ez hosting product is there.. and it is pretty cheap as well. ??
Kindest,
Jørgen Skogstad
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