Shared Dedicated Hosting
What makes a 'Dedicated IP' better than a 'Shared IP'?
I am looking at choosing a hosting plan with a web hosting company. They are offering a 'Dedicated IP' at an additional cost. Is this any good? I don't understand why it's better than using the standard 'Shared IP'.
From what i understand your not looking for a dedicated server, your looking for website hosting and they're offering you a Dedicated IP.
you could still be on a shared server, only you will have a seperate IP than the other accounts hosted on their server, this would benefit you if you're looking to use SSL certificates or if you would like users to be able to acces your website through an ip address.
personally i think the dedicated IP seperates my site from the rest on the server, for example if a melicious site is hosted on the same ip as yours then users may have the IP blocked and won't be able to get to your site, the same applys for email system, if for example MSN, Yahoo have the shared IP on a blacklist due to other acounts on the IP sending spam you will be under the blacklist because you are under the shared IP.
in my experience a Dedicated IP isnt to much extra cost £10 a year-ish is what i pay for a dedicated IP, and in my eyes it's worth it, i would definitly recomend it,
check out http://www.webhostingpad.com
they do hosting for $150 for a 3 year acount and provide a Dedicated IP & SSL certificate for $40 a year, also you can use the code SAVENOW and save 20% of your order.
Hope that helped ;)
Need help with PHP File permissions and uploading.?
I recently upgraded to a dedicated hosting package and am suffering a little on the learning curve with the following script which worked previously on a shared hosting package. I think it's a problem with granting file permission. Here's the code that processes a file upload ...
if (file_exists($target_path ) == FALSE) {
$result_var = mkdir($target_path, 0777);
}
$target_name = $target_path . "/" . $file_name . ".jpg";
$target_path .= "/" . basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile'] ['name'] );
if(move_uploaded_file( $_FILES[ 'uploadedfile' ]
['tmp_name'], $target_path ) == FALSE) {
return "Error uploading file!";
}
I have no problem creating the new directory, I'm only having a problem with move_upload_file.
So basically I keep getting the "Error uploading file" errors.
Any ideas??? Also, should I be using 0777?
The problem was related to safe mode being off. Once I changed the local and master values of safe mode, it worked.
I changed the file permission to 0755, that seems to still work, thanks!
Glad you found the safe mode issue.. I would not leave those files 777 (the world can write to that execute within and trust me they will) Set them to 755 you may have to make the webserver the owner of that directory but that is much safer.
whats the best website statistics package?
I have recently moved from Fasthosts shared hosting to a dedicated server, I really liked their Matrixstats package though it is apparently developed only for them.
Don't mind paying if it is a decent enough system, tried awstats but looking for something a little more comprehensive
you can try
http://addfreestats.com/