Pligg Web Hosting Discussion - Hostingcoupons.com

[Yankidank]

Not sure if anyone has posted this before, but it was fresh to me. This article helps users decide what hosting is best for their Pligg site. It gives a rundown of several different levels of hosting and what to expect from each.

Like most popular content management systems, Pligg requirements center more on CPU and RAM usage rather than space or bandwidth. Content management systems based on PHP/MYSQL tend to strain servers on CPU and Ram resources during periods of high traffic and it is easy for a shared hosting solution to suspend or delete your account because of this. Because of this, it is advisable that you avoid massive oversellers such as Powweb or Bluehost as you will easily run afoul their TOS agreements for resource usage. Despite the fact that oversellers such as these specifically advertise the ability to run applications such as Pligg on their service, in reality they do not deliver. These hosting services often squeeze hundreds if not thousands of accounts onto one server in order to make a profit. With so many accounts on one server, each account has a very limited amount of CPU and RAM they can use before the usage starts to bog the server down. Since these companies put the integrity of the servers above individual users, they will often suspend or delete troublesome accounts without any specific warning or reason. So you may be wondering, if I don’t go for one of these overselling shared hosts, what kind of service should I be going for? To help you make a better informed decision, I have broken down and explained the several types of hosting below and how they are suitable or unsuitable for Pligg.

[davemackey]

I'm using bluehost shared hosting and it has been okay thus far, but I hope to move to either a VPS or dedicated within a month or two.

[diggggggg]

Using Lotosus, so far love them.