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[Ray]

Colleagues: I may need a new hosting company.  Low volume, personal space, with room to experiment from time-to-time.  Something with command line access would be nice.  FTP in and out.  Virtual is OK, do not need anything dedicated.  The host should have a little knowledge of PHP to understand why the error_log matters, for example.

Any recommendations or outfits to avoid?  Thanks, Ray

[Louie McCoy]

If you're comfortable with the full systems-admin role, I highly recommend AWS. I use it for most of my clients, and the billing model is nice for experimentation.

Louis McCoy
Well & Lighthouse, LLC
202-499-4753 (office)

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On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 6:44 AM, Ray <ray.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

Colleagues: I may need a new hosting company.  Low volume, personal space, with room to experiment from time-to-time.  Something with command line access would be nice.  FTP in and out.  Virtual is OK, do not need anything dedicated.  The host should have a little knowledge of PHP to understand why the error_log matters, for example.

Any recommendations or outfits to avoid?  Thanks, Ray

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[Michael Alaimo]

Hello Ray,

I am using Superb Internet Hosting.  The package is called Grid Iron.  Here is the URL: http://www.superb.net/web-hosting/benefits.

The GridPRO and GridMAX include access logs, at least from the description.  Support is very good, and you should be able to get some information from them about error logs pretty quick.

For example I had them install a new VPC with an updated PHP so that I could use a more recent media wiki and they did not have a problem with that. 

Ask them about PHP requirements too.  I am running PHP 5 .4 so I could not run Drupal 8, but they can update your PHP.

Let me know if you chose Superb.

Regards,

Michael

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 6:44 AM, Ray <ray.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

Colleagues: I may need a new hosting company.  Low volume, personal space, with room to experiment from time-to-time.  Something with command line access would be nice.  FTP in and out.  Virtual is OK, do not need anything dedicated.  The host should have a little knowledge of PHP to understand why the error_log matters, for example.

Any recommendations or outfits to avoid?  Thanks, Ray

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[Andy Green]

If you are comfortable with Linux and want a high degree of control (as in pick your distro and build from there), I’d recommend Linode. http://linode.com/. Full control of an SSD-backed instance, with great pricing. The offering is similar to Digital Ocean (who pretty much cloned their branding) but in my experience performs a lot better for the same price.

 

Andy

[trou...@potomacaudio.com]

It may be expensive for personal hosting, but we use Blackmesh. I can heartily recommend them, and their support is awesome. (Their sponsorship of everything PHP doesn't hurt, either.) They understand Drupal very well, and I recently put in a ticket to upgrade our dev server to PHP7 while keeping an eye on a particular Drupal site. In short order, it was up and running with little intervention on my part.

Bob

[Sean Prunka]

While this list is not exhaustive, and doesn't say much about the quality of the company, it is very handy to help ensure you get a reasonable version of PHP.

http://phpversions.info/

A lot of folks have listed VPS, cloud VMs, and similar options, which are usually the best bet for SSH access. Digital Ocean is one that is well loved by a lot of folks in the PHP community.

I'm currently using a shared hosting solution that is a rather good deal, though SSH is extra and I do not currently have that option turned on.

Anyway, if you'd like to check them out: http://iclickandhost.com/ 

((They're not listed as having PHP 7 in the above list, but they do have it. 7.0.3 in fact.

They also offer earlier version. As far as I can tell, it's per account, but you can hotswap at any time through the control panel.

--Sean

On Feb 11, 2016 6:44 AM, "Ray" <ray.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

Colleagues: I may need a new hosting company.  Low volume, personal space, with room to experiment from time-to-time.  Something with command line access would be nice.  FTP in and out.  Virtual is OK, do not need anything dedicated.  The host should have a little knowledge of PHP to understand why the error_log matters, for example.

Any recommendations or outfits to avoid?  Thanks, Ray

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[Marc Elliott Levy]

When I researched full service hosting a few years ago, I settled on Servint.net and loved it. Lots of help even with stupid little things and really easy to get humans in multiple ways for assistance. Let me know if you go with them.

Marc