Finding a cheap PHP5 host
I’ve been looking for a hosting provider that would give me PHP5 at a decent price. NETsite have already upgraded to PHP5, but they’re somewhat expensive, demanding 111 DKK (about 15€) a month. There are plenty of other Danish hosting providers that will give me much more space for far less money.
Finding someone who can provide PHP5 is rather difficult. Neither FastTech, Webdomain, freepaq, NeedHost, nor Dkx can provide a PHP5 solution… At Powerhosting I could buy my own server and then get PHP5 on it, but it would be more expensive than staying with NETsite.
At ComSupport Gruppen they are waiting for official Debian of PHP5 — but those packages have been stalled for over six months now… It’s a bit unclear why Debian hasn’t got any PHP5 packages by now, especially since Piotr Roszatycki uploaded them a couple of months ago. But apparently they weren’t acceptable to the ftpmasters. But instead of working on getting the packages acceptable things just stopped :-( I think that’s rather sad… Debian is about to release Sarge, and having PHP5 in it would be a nice plus, especially if it would mean that people would upgrade to it.
I’ve got a suggestion (as always). How about using TextDrive (http://www.textdrive.com/)?
You get shell access, 300 mb, 3 gigs of traffic per month, 3 domains, mysql databases, you name it! And they support a whole slew of software including php5.
I would definitely give them a look! :-)
That sounds like a very interesting hosting company indeed! Very OpenSource friendly and with tons of features. The only downside is their 3 gigabyte trafic per month limit — I’ve exceeded that some months.
I’ve contacted NEXCEES.NET because I once agreed to let them use my PHP tutorial. So I hope to have a new site up soon hosted by them. Feature-wise they have all that I want and more to.
web10.dk provides php5 and is so cheap that it is practically free..
http://web09.talkactive.net/phpinfo.php
Thanks for the suggestion of Web10, I didn’t know about them.
This is the very best :
Disk Storage - 4800 MB
Monthly Bandwidth - 120 GB
Free Domain Registrations - 1
FULL Domains Hosted - 3
PHP4 Support
PHP5 Support
MySQL Databases
97-Day Money - Back Guarantee
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etc
Price for a year $119.40
Promo Code : —
Discount : $89.40
So, u just pay $30 and so for next year.
I must say that it’s a very impressive setup! That’s ten times the space I have now… enough for hosting my photos online. I’ll have to think about it.
One of the problems is that it’s only been five months since I moved to NEXCESS and they’re hosting me for free. They’ve also been very helpful with all my support questions, setting SSH up for me, etc. So I’m kind of attached to them…
Sory, i forgot to put the link. Here it is.
http://www.dreamhost.com/shared/comparison.html