I've been trying to install vanilla in media temple and it does not seem to be working, can someone please run me through some kind of setting check because i can not figure out what settings im missing. My PHP settings are at 4 instead of 5 could that be it?
what would you recommend because i have gone to fatcow but theirs was to slow and i had trouble installing vanilla with them. and godaddy's hosting just sucks, and ya could you please help me with a host because i can not find one that works with speed and compatibility with vanilla and wordpress
i think have a good hoster, very good service and no downtimes for arround two years now, i pay 2€ (= 3$/1,5£) per month, unlimited traffic, 300 mb webspace, incl. one domain.
mediatemple is brutally expensive and honestly your (website) visitor does'nt care for what or for who you pay. at least - server uptime and a low price is essential ,a cheesy webserver-gui or the name of a hoster is totally minor and inefficient.
well when i upload the file i name it "forum" and then i try going to mywebaddress.com/forum and the setup guide does not come up? what am i doing wrong?
my stuff is located in domains/WEBSITEADDRESS.com/.
i also tried doing domains/forum.WEBSITEADDRESS.com/
and i also tried putting the folder in the data/users
Also, are you sure you have your files in the appropriate location?
A quick search shows that the path for MediaTemple would be: /home/YOURsiteNUMBER/domains/YOURSITE.com/html/public/ e.g., /home/9328/domains/testing.com/html/public/
So your forum directory should be located there.
I don't have mediatemple, so I can't confirm this info.
something happened to my html/public folder it had its 775 settings messed up it had 756 by mistake. i must have type in a wrong number when configuring everything.
I have another question though when i try to change my theme in vanilla it says that my php settings need read access , i have php 4 set up, how do i give it read access it does not give me that option to change it
here is a quote from mediatemple: In many ways you could say our main product is customer support. It's what we work on the hardest. 90% of our staff is in some way dedicated to this process. Beyond fast speeds, amazing technology, and great uptime records - we realize that we must judge our success on how well we have supported our clients. It's really what matters the most in business today.
Slightly OT: I can post exchanges with tech support as well as pingdom logs that will cure your desire to host with MT once and for all. I am talking about the time when they were launching their gridserver stuff, so perhaps it's better now... If you're into the grid thing, I actually have very good experiences with Mosso...
In general however I'd recommend hosting with a smaller company. Oh, and budget hosting @ $3 a month is silly if you expect any kind of service or speed.
I'm with bluehost and I took out their 2 year plan so I'm paying roughly $7 a month (although that's technically $3.50/month because I split it with a friend). I get 2TB of bandwidth, 200GB of storage, 20 subdomains and 50 databases. Also, I've had really good experience with tech support. I just use their live chat and all my issues have been solved in under an hour. </$0.02>
Just saw the topic> Good to hear your issue is resolved and all.
I've got about 18 domains I host for myself and my clients, spread out between two providers. I had a lot of my DB stuff on Dreamhost. Then Dreamhost kept going down like a dog. I switched to MT about 6 months ago and have not had any problems since. I heard a lot of horror stories about their Gridserver, but that must have been the early days: They have been rock solid for me since joining. I host 8 domains currently on their gridserver (my main/highest impact domains), including at least 3 vanilla installs (one which is Huuuuuuge, with a few thousand members: www.story-games.com).
The only things I don't like about MT at this point are: 1) Their web-based stats are hard to break down by Domain, unlike my other provider. I might implement google analytics just to get around that problem. 2) No backups. It's like having sex without a condom, IMO. I back up my databases and domains weekly, but still that's really lame: I only found that out AFTER joining, of course. They say this will be fixed this quarter (perhaps a snapshot-based system like on Netapp storage? Dunno), but in any case it puts me at risk.
If I was "big pimpin", I'd totally go Mosso, though. I'm only "Medium Pimpin" at this point. Maybe in 2 years or so.
But for my money, MT has been rock solid for me since I made the switch half a year ago (it seems that they're mostly over whatever issues they had with their grid implementation), and I've used about 5 major hosts in the last 6 years or so (and usually keep two concurrent providers just in case one has a catastrophe).