December 9th, 2011 
PHP Hosting Which web hosting company do you recommend in terms of performance and uptime of PHP/MySQL sites?
Please do not recommend a company with which you only have experience in HTML sites as most hosts can run these reliably.
The most demand is placed on the host when using database driven sites so please only recommend companies if you have used their service in this manner.
Looking forward to your responses!! Thanks!
Sorry, forgot to mention – I will be running a UK site…..so if this influences your decision please say why….
Chosen Answer:
Dear friend, take into consideration that web hosting is a global service, it is not important you are located in Au, UK, Ca or US. And also the cost of hosting services in UK & Au generally is a little high in compared with the same services in CA & US.
As an experienced webmaster I recommend BlueHost service which I’m sure it would work for you and fulfill all your requirements. They have a really great offer for hosting & I have used them for over 3 yrs now, and have never had a single problem with them.
They offer a Full-featured service only .95 a month. You can see their Plan Details accompanied with reliable reviews regarding their service at:
http://www.threehosts.com/reviews/1st
Here I have copied and pasted its features from their website to view:
- Free Domain Forever
- Unlimited Space
- Unlimited Transfer
- Host UNLIMITED Domains (Support All Domain Names)
- 2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts
- SSH (Secure Shell), SSL, FTP, Stats
- CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL
- 2000/2002 Front Page Extensions
- Free Site Builder
- 24/7 Superb/Responsive Sales/Support
- Free Search Engine Submission
******IMPORTANT*******
* This service was awarded “The Best Web Host OF 2008”.
* If you sign up for this service you will have 0 credits to advertise your website with the google & yahoo search engines for free!
* You Can Register A Free Domain or Use Your Existing Domains. They Support All Domain Names.
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Good Luck!
by: David G
on: 3rd July 08
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Sorry, in the U.S. here – but one thing I will tell you, **ANY** shared hosing is as bad as anything else. Anything any other site does on that server to bring down the server affects YOU. This is especially true of mysql databases as most of the programming I’ve seen out there is horribly inefficient, insecure, and sloppy.
You really need to start looking at dedicated server plans. VPS (Virtual Private Server) is a second choice, but the server is still being “shared” between other VPS clients. You will never get the reliability and uptime you hope for until you lease a dedi.
goDaddy.com’s dedicated server plans range from as little as $89/mo (U.S.D) for stripped-down to $150 per month. We lease on an annual plan which adds up to $114 month. In two years, our only down time was due to something that WE did. :-/
Once you go dedicated, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that compares.
try 1&1, fasthosts or lycos. These are all EU based and all offer fairly low cost hosting that supports PHP/MySQL.
I’m UK based and I have used all of the above and they are all OK.
They all offer a control panel that lets you set up your databases and they let you add various PHP/MySQL based tools such as CMS and other portals very easily.
I have been using Lycos as my main hosting provider for several sites I run for 5 years without any problems.
It depends…. http://www.doeswhat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=47
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Dion Hosting – http://www.dionhosting.com
they offer PHP and UNLIMITED mysql databases
Well, it depends on how much you want to spend.
1. If you’re willing to pay $20+/monthly for hosting I recommend:
http://www.mediatemple.com
http://www.slicehost.com
For performance intensive sites I don’t recommend shared hosting at all, but if you really want something cheap:
2. For $5-$10 I recommend Dreamhost http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html
Their standard price is $119.40/year ($9.95/month if you pay yearly) but they currently have a promotion. You can use the promo code PLUS at sign up page and get the $50 discount + 2 Free domain names. This way you get them for $69.40/year ($5.78/month). You can use their huge Disk Space and host unlimited number of subdomains and domains on a single plan.
Disk space: 500 GB
Bandwidth: 5000 GB
2 Free domain names
Price: $5.78/month ($69.40/year)
P.S. Since you’re from the UK http://www.hosttell.com/one currently have a promotion in the UK. They are offering free hosting and a domain (I think you have to pay about €10 setup fee for the whole year). Although they offer a lot less disk space, you get a year of hosting for a price of a domain name, so they might be useful for some other site, or even this one if you don’t require more than a GB of disk space.
The best one is bluehost webhosting since they offer unlimited bandwidth and free domain with their webhosting package and also offer $100 credits to advertise your website with the google & yahoo search engines for free.
http://www.bluehost.com/track/bluehostwebhosting/
Dear friend, take into consideration that web hosting is a global service, it is not important you are located in Au, UK, Ca or US. And also the cost of hosting services in UK & Au generally is a little high in compared with the same services in CA & US.
As an experienced webmaster I recommend BlueHost service which I’m sure it would work for you and fulfill all your requirements. They have a really great offer for hosting & I have used them for over 3 yrs now, and have never had a single problem with them.
They offer a Full-featured service only $6.95 a month. You can see their Plan Details accompanied with reliable reviews regarding their service at:
http://www.threehosts.com/reviews/1st
Here I have copied and pasted its features from their website to view:
- Free Domain Forever
- Unlimited Space
- Unlimited Transfer
- Host UNLIMITED Domains (Support All Domain Names)
- 2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts
- SSH (Secure Shell), SSL, FTP, Stats
- CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL
- 2000/2002 Front Page Extensions
- Free Site Builder
- 24/7 Superb/Responsive Sales/Support
- Free Search Engine Submission
******IMPORTANT*******
* This service was awarded “The Best Web Host OF 2008”.
* If you sign up for this service you will have $100 credits to advertise your website with the google & yahoo search engines for free!
* You Can Register A Free Domain or Use Your Existing Domains. They Support All Domain Names.
****************************
Good Luck!
If you want to run PHP/MYSQL then i recommend you these two hosting:
http://www.hostitdaddy.com/
&
3ix.com both have 99.99% uptime.
here is a review of top 8 web hosting, you can take a look, and choose one of them.
http://shurl.org/ozlrO
Dreamhost works for me, and has for quite a few years. They have their problems, but so does every other hosting company. For more options check http://www.webhostninja.com.