Does Hostmonster support Django
I know Hostmonster allows Python. Has anyone successfully run Django on there? Any problems? ...
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Reliable and performant cheap (ish) hosting for ASP.NET 3.5 and mysql
I'm looking for someone reasonably cheap but better than the majority of budget hosts out there. I'm currently with brinkster.net and I've become increasingly annoyed at the their immense unreliability and low available resources. Fasthosts business plan is close, but has no mysql, only has ASP.NET 2.0 and is maybe slightly more expensi...
How does my shared host's nameserver resolve http://servername.com/~username/ to my top level domain?
I recently moved my website to a shared hosting solution at asmallorange.com, but I had to set my domain to use their provided nameservers in order for the site to properly resolve. I was determined to keep control of the domain's DNS but I could find no way to make my top level domain resolve to the shared location which was in the for...
Securing DB and session-data on a PHP shared host
I wrote a PHP web-application using SQLite and sessions stored on filesystem. This is functionally fine and attractively low maintenance. But, now it needs to run on a shared host. All web-applications on the shared host run as the same user, so my users' session data is vulnerable, as is the database, code, etc. Many recommend stori...
What is a good Ruby on Rails hosting service?
I'm looking to deploy a new Ruby on Rails project I'm working on but need hosting. A managed server is overkill for me. I just need shared space. I'd like to go with a service that specializes in Ruby on Rails. I've looked at SpeedyRails and RailsPlayground and they both seem to have pros and cons. Does anyone have experience with e...
What do you recommend for setting up a shared server with php
What do you recommend for setting up a shared server with php from a security/performance point of view? Apache mod_php (how do you secure that? other than safe_mode as it won't be in PHP6) Apache CGI + suexec Lighttpd and spawn a FastCGI per user LE: I'm not interested in using an already made control panel as i'm trying to write my...
What is the best free PHP framework working on shared hosting and why?
I tried symfony only. It was a little tricky (also because there is no command line or ssh connection in my hosting plan) to rearrange directory and linking in order to work on my hosting service, I did the same tricks on the local version to make the deployment easy but sometimes (don't know if is a cache problem or what) there were dif...
Process text files ftp'ed into a set of directories in a hosted server
The situation is as follows: A series of remote workstations collect field data and ftp the collected field data to a server through ftp. The data is sent as a CSV file which is stored in a unique directory for each workstation in the FTP server. Each workstation sends a new update every 10 minutes, causing the previous data to be over...
Context information in Tomcat5.5
Hi, I am facing this peculiar problem. My webapp, works fine on my localhost. Its a JSP/Struts-Tomcat-MySQL app. However, when I host it on hostjava.net (shared tomcat), it is unable to connect to the database. After some debugging, I have identified the problem, to be with JNDI lookup for datasource. If you want, you can take a look a...
What are the most common, typical things to AVOID coding into my ASP.NET app in order for it to run under Medium Trust on a shared host?
What are the things that Medium Trust stops you from doing? For example, I've already learned that Medium Trust stops you from using System.IO.Path.GetTempPath(). What other things like that? ...
What FTP protocol/suite do the web hosting companies use?
I recently got stuck on an odd problem. My friend hired a designer to work on a web site for his company. He asked my recommendation about a tool to allow web designer perform secure file transfers so that he can update web site. Since he's hosting on Windows 2003, my immediate recommendation was to enable webdav, which he did and the g...
File permissions on Shared hosts
I've written a script which takes the summary of an order and stores in into an XML file, except the problem is that I don't want people to be able to open the XML file in their browser, obviously. I'm hosted on a very dodgy shared server with limited abilities: no SSH, for starters. Is there a place I can put this file so that PHP wil...
Workaround for disabled php.ini features---
We are using shared hosting and the follow features are disabled. file_uploads = Off allow_url_fopen = Off allow_url_include = Off We are unable to change hosting and need to figure out some workarounds. The hosting co is also not able/willing to enable these features. For example: We are calling 1 server from another in order to ge...
Setup Content Server
This is more of a strategy question instead of a 'help with code' question. I have a content server and need to supply content to various shared hosting and would love to know how you guys would set this up. We would like the content to be 'cached' on the servers so that is appears as static (and to reduce the load on the content serve...
Best practices for maintaining shared hosting websites with ASP.NET and SQL Server?
I've been doing PHP/MySQL websites with shared hosting providers for the last couple years. The day-to-day process is basically: develop in Eclipse, one website per folder upload via FileZilla, one website per folder use PHPMyAdmin to create and manage your local and online databases and transfer data from one to another to backup the ...
Accessing local mailbox using PHP on a shared hosting Linux account (GoDaddy)
Hey All, I guess it should be a common technique, However, I tried the following two options: 1) Using my existing POP3 PHP client to access my local mail account. I am getting a "could not connect". Same code works if I run it with my localhost connecting to GoDaddy's pop3 server 2) Parsing the local mbox file - I can't figure out if...
How to replicate a shared MSSQL 2005 db for development purposes?
I would like to replicate a MSSQL 2005 db (hosting through a shared hosting provider) directly on an integration server for development purposes. MSSQL server provides quite a few ways of performing data replication, but I am not sure that any of them is compatible with a typical shared hosting environment. The idea would be to update t...
Why such a disparity in pricing between Windows and Linux hosting services
I'm a .Net developer for pay, but I have my personal web site hosted on a LAMP stack with a shared hosting provider. I've been looking for a while to switching to a Windows with .Net hosting provider, but what really turns me off is the price. The reason that I want to switch is that I find .Net much more enjoyable to develop on, and I...
Good PHP hosting options?
Surprisingly, it seems this question hasn't been asked yet (or at least I couldn't find it). I'm after a "good" PHP hosting solution. Obviously "good" is a subjective term, so I'll provide some guidelines: Scalable solutions from cheap shared to dedicated with easy transition between them (ie a smooth and relatively painless upgrade ...
Hosting: why does the number of MySQL databases matter?
Ok, maybe I'm missing something here but I'm looking at various PHP hosting options and I see things like "10 MySQL databases", or 25 or even unlimited. Now I've worked on sites with an Oracle backend that have 10,000+ concurrent users and we've had... one database. The idea of a database is, of course, that you can store whatever you ...