Newbie database hosting question
Hi all.
I'm not a tech person by any means. I have a couple guys developing a web based application that is an advertisement delivery system which collects data from the advertisements and places in a database.
We're looking for hosting company's now, based on the recommendations of the developer (who is out of the country so not familiar with US company's) he said we should go with: hosting provider with LINUX, Apache, php5 and mysql databse.
Do any of you have a recommendation for a company that has this? Are they pretty standard offerings of any host company? I am looking for a dedicated server.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Harold
JeevesBond posted this at 09:44 — 11th February 2008.
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Those are pretty standard requirements, try to get MySQL5 as well if you can. Are you looking for companies in the US specifically? Our partner site has reviews of quite a few hosts: http://www.webhostingunleashed.com/ They're not paying any money to be our partner either, we just point people towards because they provide a useful, related service. Also because we get asked this sort of hosting question all the time!
I know you didn't ask this, but have you thought of using an open source ads system? OpenAds will probably do as much as any system you're building in-house. Then all that's left to do is integrate it with some billing system. You could get the whole lot for free using Drupal, its Advertisment and ECommerce modules.
Just a thought.
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