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Web Hosting for Coppermine photo Album?
acoop:
ok on shared web hosting server, you are sharing server resources with 100+ sites and that depends on the web hosting providers. Semi dedicated can be a dedicated server with only 20 sites. You pay more but you have more cpu power available. You are not sharing cpu with 100+ users. semi dedicated is good for folks that are not ready for dedicated server. basically for a website, the transition phase involves shared web hosting --> semi dedicated web hosting --> vps server --> eventually dedicated server. I guess vps and semi dedicated might fall in same category. Only thing with vps is that you have to set everything up on your own (apache, mysql, php etc). Semi dedicated is just like shared hosting but you just have more resources available.
Fabricio Ferrero:
Tecnically are shared servers. Is a tricky way of calling IMO. In fact they are not called "Semi dedicated servers" but Virtual Private Server. A VPS is when some hosting company does a partition of one computer server into multiples servers. They can have different OS, they can be rebooted one at a time, and they sell very expensive (IMO) for still being a shared sever, you share resources and that's what is all about. :)
Joachim Müller:
I agree with Fabricio: calling shared webhosting "semi-dedicated" just because you put less presences on one physical server is just a marketing trick. The server is not dedicated to one task/user only, which is the meaning of a dedicated server. As Fabricio pointed out, virtualization is the next best thing to a true dedicated server in terms of a physical machine assigned to an account.
Of course it helps in terms of performance to put less presences on one physical machine, but adding to the confusion of newbies by using a buzzword like "semi-dedicated" is misleading.
Joachim
P.S. "Semi" is a latin prefix that stands for "half". Whoever coined the term "semi-dedicated" would need to have only two presences then on one physical machine, because two half servers equal one full server. That's why not only the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation will be the first against the wall, but a lot of other marketing people as well ;).
vindog:
After wading through the many posts here, I want to ask the question differently:
What hosting company SPECIALIZES in CPG hosting and development? Do they warrant security patches up to date, and plug the vulnerabilities to hacks? My site is hosted on 1and1.com (good plan, cheap) but I keep getting hacked with cgi35.plala.or.jp/Mu/gwbbs/lock/eng/css.js and similar stuff. I don't have the ability to harden the environment, etc. since it is shared.
My site is http://photoshack.com and it has a fair bit of traffic and 10-25 signups per day. I don't make money off the site, so paying big $$ to keep it secure isn't going to work.
I would really like to migrate the site away from the current provider and into the hands of someone who is better at this.
thanks (in advance..)
Fabricio Ferrero:
--- Quote from: vindog on July 27, 2009, 10:57:57 pm ---but I keep getting hacked with cgi35.plala.or.jp/Mu/gwbbs/lock/eng/css.js and similar stuff.
--- End quote ---
You only get that type of hacking just because the hacker is a moron. I could easly take over your gallery in 5 minutes due to you're running a Coppermine version of 2 years ago. You should update as soon as we release a new version, 1.4.25 right now!
It's the first time I offer hosting in the forum because I'm not here to sell, anyways, I have some space in my reseller account due to yesterday I moved one website, if you PM me we could make some deal. I'm running my gallery without any problem and so thousands of people. This post is not meant to confuse you in order to sell you something, Coppermine should run very well in almost all the hosting services. (decent ones ;))
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