[Gllug] Recommendations for mysql hosting?

[Andy McGarty]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 07:14:46 -0000, Julian Somers <lists at bigpip.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a web hosting provider for a mysql-greedy php web site.  
> It's running moodle [www.moodle.org] and gets fairly heavy use. The  
> site's previous two homes (a VPS and a virtual hosting provider) were  
> plagued by mysql bottlenecks. Any recommendations? I've been considering  
> a root server / colo, so that I can optimise mysql for this app, and run  
> a php accelerator. Does the list see any advantage in this?
>
I use oneandone.co.uk who are based in Germany and are ok as long as you  
only need hosting and not "support".  Priced about £29 a month.  I've used  
them for several years and the network is very reliable.  I had one old  
server that wasn't be used much fail and htey weren't great in getting it  
back again so I just moved the one site I had onto another server and  
closed this account.

Their support tends to be "if you can't fix it then we'll reinstall a base  
image for you and start again".

I have also used cwcs.co.uk who are more expensive and have UK based  
engineers who know what they are doing.  They have though suffered ongoing  
network issues (mainly during the night) and the hdd died a few months  
ago.  It took them two days to fix which was worrying as I guess they had  
no spares!

Andy

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