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Re: Hosting Recommendations for US?

fiona — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:00:21 +1300

Thanks for the following answer.

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infinite loop with silverstripe-installation?

Elender78 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:21:34 +1300

Hello everybody,

the situation:

I have a unchanged(!) silverstripe-system on shared hosting. Silverstripe 2.3.6, Blog 0.2.1, Userforms, SWFUpload, DataObject Manager, Imagegallery (newest release each). The theme is "higherGround".
After the installation of the modules today, the hosting-server crashed 2 times, after this the site was deleted and my hoster announced to me that a script on my page produced an infinite loop and was so responsible for the breakdown.

question:

Has anybody an idea, how this problem evolved? Any knowledge would be highly appreciated. I've 30-something installations (some with the same modules) of Silverstripe 2.3.6 running on different servers and had no problem until today.

Thank you very much!

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Re: forced and random mbstring.func_overload

JordanC — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:35:47 +1300

If you are unable to override the mbstring.func_overload in .htaccess

The suggestion above worked for me:

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It happens there is one error in the pattern of two regex in sapphire/core/SSViewer.php.
Ereg_replace doesn't complain about it, but mb_ereg_replace (and preg_replace too) does. At lines 494 and 496, the last closed parenthesis of the pattern needs to be escaped

,\<\?= +([^\?]*) +\?\>) +%' . '>',

becomes

,\<\?= +([^\?]*) +\?\>\) +%' . '>',

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Re: Hosting Recommendations for US?

youngmug — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:31:07 +1300

I believe 1&1 still uses PHP4 on their plans by default. There is documentation on their site about how to switch to PHP5. Be careful with them, they limit databases to a maximum of 100 megabytes.

I've seen a lot of people bit by bargain-basement shared hosting, including HostGator and 1&1. Always make sure to read the TOS for a hosting company to know where those limits on "unlimited" are. If you plan to get a lot of traffic, also be careful because SilverStripe can be heavy at times, and many shared hosts automatically suspend sites with heavy CPU usage.

Furthermore, avoid any companies owned by Endurance International Group (BizLand, FatCow, PowWeb, and iPowerWeb among 20+ brands they market under). I've personally experienced the disservice from one of their brands, and have heard horror stories from those who have used their other brands.

I've heard very good things about MonteCarloHosting, and their resource allocations are quite reasonable for the price.

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Re: Hosting Recommendations for US?

bellafaith — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:22:36 +1300

I use greengeeks.com for my own hosting and have had no problems using silverstripe on their servers. I would stay away from at&t web hosting as I have had difficulties with using silverstripe on their servers.

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Re: Hosting recommendations in the Netherlands?

martimiz — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:28:25 +1300

Thanks guys

@Bambii7: thank you also for giving such a detailed answer!

To explain a bit: it's not so much that I am afraid of a hughe timeloss for websites that travel halfway round the globe It's more that clients like to have registration and hosting in one package, and for an .nl domain that means (mostly) in the Netherlands. I've recently been pointed to keenondots, so maybe...

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Re: Free MySQL?

pinkp — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:21:40 +1300

@FANFAN what is it you can't check?

It is definitely possible to use freemysql.net with any hosting packing. However as I've stated before it is slow and I would only use it for testing if you need, not for a reliable database source.

like Sean says from my experience it is best to use a proper paid plan. Hope thats helpful.

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Re: Free MySQL?

Sean — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:00:54 +1300

Unless you have a proper paid plan the chances of getting everything for free is unlikely

Suggested web hosts from community can be found here: http://doc.silverstripe.org/doku.php?id=suggested-web-hosts

Sean

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Re: Free MySQL?

FANFAN — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:57:46 +1300

I can not check. There was still Activation Email

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Re: Free MySQL?

pinkp — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:08:31 +1300

Yeah check out this thread for more info

http://www.silverstripe.org/hosting-requirements/show/275995

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Re: Hosting Recommendations for US?

FANFAN — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:02:18 +1300

Try 000webhost.com
Just do not participate in their affiliate program.

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Re: Free MySQL?

FANFAN — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:41:42 +1300

Hmm ... Very interesting. And I can use a database on resources from other hosts?

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Re: Hosting recommendations in the Netherlands?

patte — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:56:38 +1300

We`re hosting SilverStripe sites here in germany at mittwald.de - good performance and perfect scalable for agencies hosting client sites. Not so far away from the netherlands, should be fast enough ;-)

BTW SilverStripe can be installed preconfigured from within the admin interface...

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Re: Europe: needs for SQLite support for try&buy installations

Sean — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:54:55 +1300

Hi guys,

SQLite support has just recently been added, but it hasn't been tested much on real projects.

However, it has been passing the Sapphire core unit tests suite made up of 700~ tests so far, which is very promising!

If you want to try it out, check out a development copy of SilverStripe 2.4 (http://svn.silverstripe.com/open/phpinstaller/branches/2.4 from SVN) and add the sqlite3 module (or check it out via http://svn.silverstripe.com/open/modules/sqlite3/trunk).

Installation option 2 or 3 on this page should then get you started once you've done this.

The installer doesn't quite work with it yet, but it's on the way.

Any issues, file them in http://open.silverstripe.org, there's a component "Modules - sqlite3" you can file against.

Cheers,
Sean

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Re: Send email on GoDaddy

JuLo — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:57:27 +1300

Thanks for the reply.

Did you have issues with them too?

I am still battling with GoDaddy regarding this issue, who are saying that it is my fault, when even a simple php mail() call (no Silverstripe involved) does not get to me.
I even tried to use their custom mailing form to no avail.
They suck.

Just so I know, what do you mean by "flagging the SMTP server inside the .htaccess"?
How do I do that?

Thanks,

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Re: Hosting recommendations in the Netherlands?

Bambii7 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:03:16 +1300

I couldn't tell you which would host would be the closest to Netherlands, which would help slightly with speed. I live in New Zealand and use US hosting companies. Which is what you want if a site is to have an international presence.

Godaddy and Hostgator are cheap. And at a glance offer all that you'd need. But I haven't had grate times with their support, they still kind of do the trick though.

I currently use wired tree http://www.wiredtree.com/
they're a smaller team of dudes running it. Grate response times for support, and have handled what I thought were some more advance server requirements without worry.

I haven't had first hand experience with with rack space but I'm told they're out right awesome http://www.rackspace.com/index.php
You pay more for what you get though. My brother put www.ninjakiwi.com on there, which has CRAZY amounts of page views, their server and support have worked well for them.

Blue Host I think a little mid range between premium server and cheap and dirty. From what I've experienced they offer dirt cheap hosting but limit the accounts per host to something more reasonable than godaddy or host gator. Although that just what they tell me over the phone http://www.bluehost.com/track/joomlabear/CODE43 (I left aff id in there I don't mean to spam)

And again I don't have anything here but have set Joomla up for someone on this host. One https://www.one.com/en/ they offer everything you need. But the idea is you have one site per account.

If you're doing a lot of sites I'd book yourself a WHM account on a more premium host. Then you can set up as many accounts as you need. The host will help you if you need a hand getting started. And it'll start paying for itself after you get a few clients on there. I use wired tree and WHMCS to manage accounts for small jobs I do here in New Zealand

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Re: Send email on GoDaddy

Bambii7 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:37:42 +1300

Sounds like you've made more progress than I would have on godaddy hosting.
The only thing I can think of that you may want to try is flagging the SMTP server inside the .htaccess file.
_config.php may or may not get called before the SS mail classes.

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htaccess RewriteBase on a site thats yet to go live SOLVED

Bambii7 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:27:57 +1300

Hi again to all, on my favorite forum.
This issue will be resolved later today I'm sure when the nameservers switch. But I develop a lot of SS sites like this so the solution would be handy to know.

I don't think there is much of a risk giving the links to the site on its IP so here it is
http://208.79.232.180/~mitchell/
which will soon become http://mitchellstoutarchitects.co.nz/

I get a nifty 404 when viewing on the IP. The folder was under /ss because there was a joomla install on root. I've just deleted the joomla install and moved the SS files to root.
I used to get similar issues when playing with SS locally in sub folders. The solution was to add something like
RewriteBase /ss/SilverStripev2.3.2/silverstripe

Is there something similar I can do when viewing the site via the IP?
I tried
RewriteBase http://208.79.232.180/~mitchell/
or
...................
Sorry just stumbled across the fix in my usual fashion but feel I should continue this post if anyone else has similar issues.
I needed to forward the shared host IP to the accounts partition
RewriteBase /~mitchell/
:blush:

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Re: Quercus and Google App Engine

dean_curly — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:28:49 +1300

So, has anyone tried to install SS under Quercus?

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Re: Hosting Recommendations?

LinseyM — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:50:46 +1300

I have a linux VPS with Namesco, which has been really good. Just had to make a tweak in the .htaccess file to push up the memory limit, but other than that I've had no problems and I've got three live sites + 2 under construction running fine on it.

Obviously there is a bit of an upfront cost there, but its worthwhile as it means your site isn't on a server with hundreds of others, and you have full control, unlimited mySQL dbs etc.

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Re: Hosting Recommendations?

pinkp — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:07:44 +1300

For UK kids,

www.webhostinguk.com

Very affordable, runs SS fine, free domain included at £2.29 per month! never found anyone else for this price with PHP5 and MySQL!
very good support to.

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Re: Hosting in Ireland?

Solo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:38:11 +1300

I don't thing that this is a problem - where is your host provider situated. You can use UK or Us providers as well

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Re: Hosting in Ireland?

neilcreagh — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:20:46 +1300

Ok, I have an update for my previous list of Irish hosts above. I'm just finishing two Silverstripe websites hosted on MyHost.ie at the moment and I've found them to be the best to date. Silverstripe runs really well on the shared hosting accounts here so it's perfect for most clients, and I found the support service great.

I've spoken to Martin in there and they're happy to change ownership on the two folders 'silverstripe-cache' and 'assets' (so that Silverstripe can write to them without them having to be set to full permissions '777'). So at any stage after you've uploaded your files you just drop them a trouble ticket and they'll make the update.

So my vote is for MyHost.ie so far. Anyone else got any Irish hosting feedback?

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Re: forced and random mbstring.func_overload

Solo — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:11:27 +1300

It is the hoster problem, not ss. To solve it, edit .htaccess file and set: php_value mbstring.func_overload 1.

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Send email on GoDaddy

JuLo — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:46:47 +1300

Hi,

I have simply followed the great tutorial given by Aram on ssbits ( http://www.ssbits.com/creating-a-simple-contact-form/) to do my own contact form.

It worked great on my free test server (x10hosting.com), but since paying GoDaddy to host my site, it has stopped working.

I have searched through the forums, and the only viable solutions seems to modify the core files, which I would rather avoid doing, to use PHPmailer.

Now GoDaddy does offer the SMTP server relay-hosting.secureserver.net, and although it says on their site that we shouldn't need to select the server when using the PHP mail() function (which I believe Silverstripe uses), I have added it to the _config.php file as follow:
ini_set("SMTP", "relay-hosting.secureserver.net");

But that was to no avail. (and I have no idea if this is even supposed to do something. Just copied it from a forum post).

Has anyone had any experience using GoDaddy for a simple contact form?

Or had anyone got any suggestion on how to troubleshoot or fix this?

I'm stuck here.

Thanks

JuLo

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Hosting recommendations in the Netherlands?

martimiz — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:34:25 +1300

Hi all,

Can anyone recommend a hosting platform in the Netherlands for hosting small to just a little bit bigger commercial SilverStripe sites where they might stay up to speed even during the busy hours? I'm not looking for the lowest prices, but it should be affordable for small businesses.

Thanks in advance,

Martine

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Re: Out of Memory on DreamHost PS w/ high limits

Willr — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:43:22 +1300

Have you got any custom code that could be causing any issues? Any large queries / file read/write versions? You should be able to run SS without any issues on DreamHost. (I had the non PS version for a couple years and sure it wasn't going to set any speed records but it was able to handle all the sites I threw at it).

You might want to make sure you are writing to a temp folder by manually creating a silverstripe-cache/ folder in your ss directory and giving apache read/write access and making sure that the manifest is being generated (and therefore cached rather then relooked up every time).

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Out of Memory on DreamHost PS w/ high limits

ylluminate — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:44:41 +1300

I am running a number of SS instances on a DreamHost PS without seemingly a hitch... However, I'm seeing very large RAM utilization compared to other CMS platforms at the moment. This is actually causing something very serious to happen that halts the entire server by running it out of memory and I'm actually very generous in my memory allowances and hosting.

It appears that it is one particular instance of SS that is allowing a lot of stuck scripts to spin on forever. I need to research this quite a bit more and get to the bottom of what is going on.

Any suggestions as to how to isolate this issue out? FastCGI just keeps spawning other procs to handle the load while these others just stagnate.

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Re: Quercus and Google App Engine

ylluminate — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:41:36 +1300

Sounds good Sigurd. I'll put that on my list for the mid term. Very interesting and powerful to say the least, especially with the hosting costs and potential performance benefits. The problem we would have to work around are the different paradigms for BigTable and perhaps issues with Exploding Indexes and Big Entities, but I'm not certain if that will be an issue yet here as I've not done quite enough yet.

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Re: Hosting Recommendations for US?

ootersplace — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:23:06 +1300

BlueDevil, it was over a year ago so I could be remembering wrong, but I don't recall encountering any difficulties. As per the instructions here (http://doc.silverstripe.org/doku.php?id=installation-on-webserver), SilverStripe should take you through the installation process once you've uploaded the files to your webserver and set up your MySQL account. Can you tell us the specific problem you're encountering or error message you're seeing?

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