shared-hosting

Large Video Uploads via a website

Some of the problems that can happen are timeouts, disconnections, and not being able to resume a file and having to start from the beginning. Assuming these files are up to around 5gigs in size, what is the best solution for dealing with this problem? I'm using a Drupal 6 install for the website. Some of my constraints due to the ser...

SQL Server 2008 hosting recommendations.

Hey stackoverflowers, I am currently working on a project that is hosted at GoDaddy and it has a large database. (Periodically inserting millions of rows). It keeps filling the transaction logs and since GoDaddy sets the SQL user up without permission to basically do anything, I cannot truncate it. The 200mb database max is not ideal...

Convert (almost) any video file to FLV in a shared hosting medium trusted environment

I've been tasked with creating some YouTube like functionality for a client's web site. I tried going the ffmpeg route but the hosting environment needs full trust. Right now, they are using Rackspace Cloud Sites, and of course, they are medium trust. They have been with them for about a year and a half and they absolutely love them. D...

Advice for Getting mod_rewrite to Work

Hello, I am trying to make clean URLs. I have written a simple rule on the .htaccess file and I have been told that it should work. However, it does not. I was wondering if it might have something to so with mod_rewrite not being enabled. I am using Network Solutions shared hosting. I called the company and was told that mod_rewrit...

ASP.NET hosting - limited number of database accounts

My ASP.NET host only allows 3 database users per db other than the dbo. I have one for the web app that only runs stored procs and has limited selects to tables. One for ASP.NET membership/roles. One for SQL cache dependency/notification. One for logging - ELMAH / log4net. How would you consolidate the 4 users into 3? How do you ...

Sending Bulk emails from asp.net website through shared hosting

Hi all, I am using gmail server settings to send emails for my asp.net website. Since there is a limitation on number of mails sent per day and limitations on sending to number of users, I cant use this service for long. Even If I use an idea to make sure I use multiple id's to send thousands of emails it will still not work. I am taki...

Why/how is my PHP shared host setting argc/argv?

Until now, I had been checking for the presence of argc and argv in my script to determine whether requests were coming from the CLI, which worked on several development machines. When placed on a particular shared host, though, the program went into fits. Looking at my routing code, I discovered that the host was setting both argc and a...

how to post the code to some host

how to post my web application and also the source code to a host..i want every one can see my project..i'm just know how to post an image..how to do that? ...

How To Programmatically Create MySQL Databases on Shared Linux Hosting Plans

Is there a sort of reliable way to programmatically create MySQL databases and MySQL users on shared Linux hosting plans from a PHP page? For instance, accessing cpanel or phpmyadmin through an API or hook if I know my cpanel access information and/or my FTP information? Occasionally I see this with some sites and products but don't kno...

How To Programmatically Create Addon Domains on Shared Hosting Plans

On Linux-based shared hosting that is administered with cpanel, is there a programmatic way to create, sort of reliably, addon domains for my site if I know my cpanel login information and/or FTP information? Note: interested in PHP and cpanel in this case. ...

How to install PHP Kohana framework?

I would like to install Kohana PHP framework. The site is on a shared web hotel. I have tried to follow the instructions on Kohana's website. Downloaded the latest stable realse (3.0.6.2) Unzipped the file to create a kohana directory Uploaded the folder to my shared hosting website. opened the url application/bootstrap.php ...and here...

I have a problem connecting to my db on godaddy with PDO

I have been trying to connect to my database using pdo on godaddy with no successs. Initially i got the error: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) Then i look around the web, found out that i need to change the part to socket. I looked for my socket found it and ch...

How to configure PHP to display detailed errors instead of error 500 page?

I have a PHP application deployed on my IIS hosting and I am always getting generic IIS "error 500" pages insteady of detailed error pages. I understand I need to modify some php.ini file (from this question). It seems that display_errors is set correctly: echo ini_get('display_errors'); outputs 1. I have also tried setting displa...

SPF record for a shared web-hosted domain

From the definition of SPF, SPF only authorizes IP address. For one of our domain name, we have created an SPF record to allow only A and MX IPs as genuine sender. This domain is hosted in a shared-hosting environment along with many other customers. In such setup, owners of other domains on same host can spoof my emails easily. Is the...

Problem with mod_rewrite

Hello all, I have a problem with getting my .htaccess to work like I want and I was wondering if anyone could shed a light on this. Here is my current setup: My shared hosting site can be accessed by http://www20.a2hosting.com/~myname/ I have several sub directories inside that I wish to access. For instance http://www20.a2hosting....

Disk reads / seeks on a shared unix server for a directory list

I want to get a better understanding of how disk reads work for a simple ls command and for a cat * command on a particular folder. As I understand it, disk reads are the "slowest" operation for a server/any machine, and a webapp I have in mind will be making ls and cat * calls on a certain folder very frequently. What are "ball park" ...

Determining Shared Hosting Providers on an IP range

I have virtually the same question as http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3300504/finding-out-all-websites-hosted-by-a-webhosting-service ... I'm trying to get shared hosting on a particular set of IPs because then my website will be close to another server on their network which my website needs to access. I tried getting in touch with ...

MySQL CREATE FUNCTION fails on a shared webserver

Hi, I have the following function. When I try to create it on a webserver, it fails with You do not have the SUPER privilege and binary logging is enabled (you might want to use the less safe log_bin_trust_function_creators variable) I never had the same problem with any other webhosting (and the exact same function), how can I fi...

Determining version of zend framework installed on server

Hi, Is there a way to determe what version of zend framework is installed on a server/included in the app? The reason I'm asking is that I'm on a shared host and I would like to use a different version than that supplied by the host and I would like to be certain that the version I'm supplying is the one being utilized by my website. ...

webhost4life web.config mysql asp.net

I've gotten all kinds of connection strings from webhost4life. It really seems like they don't have people trained well enough to resolve technical issues beyond certain obvious things. I've tried more then 10 versions of this web.config file ,, custom errors off/remoteonly, authentication form/windows & password/pwd(as per support...