Decent webserver?

[Harmen]

Hey Devs!

Currently I am hosting my website at transip. But when I try to install Processwire I encounter a server error. I guess it has something to do with the .htaccess file. 

Does anyone know a decent webhosting company which doesn't cost that much and where I can install Processwire?

Thanks in advance,

Harmen

[hettiger]

Have a look at: https://processwire.com/docs/tutorials/troubleshooting-guide/

The .htaccess file has lots of helpful comments in it. I'm pretty sure you'll get that fixed very quickly.

[blynx]

Have you already contacted transip?

If not, you should – I think they will give you advices about the .htaccess file or whatever there is to mind.

[owzim]

Often times, the RewriteBase rule is the source of a server error. Try tweaking that.

[Harmen]

.htaccess file changes with commenting a few things to commenting all things didn't help. I will contact transip, they support WP but not PW as far as I know. @owzim, will try that again...

[OllieMackJames]

I am on a vps with transip and my sites all run processwire, all working like a charm. very fast sites - I do use procache as well with the cdn function.

[Harmen]

@OllieMackJames, 

That is exactly what I don't want to do, hire a server. I rather build a dedicated server and install Processwire on that server. I wish I could connect my dedicated server to transip....

[arjen]

Harmen, 

I've used TransIP before and I only had to change the .htaccess:

Options +FollowSymLinks 

to

# Options +FollowSymLinks

If you have modified the .htaccess, I suggest you try a clean .htaccess from the ProcessWire github repo and apply the above change.

[OllieMackJames]

6 hours ago, Harmen said:

@OllieMackJames, 

That is exactly what I don't want to do, hire a server. I rather build a dedicated server and install Processwire on that server. I wish I could connect my dedicated server to transip....

@Harmen, for years I had my own servers, also located at transip, I ended up scrapping that, on the transip vps I still run my own OS (freebsd in my case) and the performance is as good (or better - transip keeps upgrading stuff) as on my own servers (which only is top of the bill the first year, I changed them after three years for the latest and best - go figure what that costs in depreciation)

Costwise I now pay for the vps what I used to pay for the colocation.

And lastly, I had to go to the transip datacenter at least once a year mostly to deal with a clusterf*ck of my own doing, but also sometimes to swap out a burned out hotswap disc. That is all gone, I ALWAYS have remote access as if I am physically there and transip deals with all the hardware. I now say I should have done this way earlier.

[Harmen]

@OllieMackJames

Allright, I will rethink about this, maybe the price outweighs the trouble.

[OllieMackJames]

@Harmen one final thing, one of my sites has a pretty good score for speed as measured on gtmetrix.com...

99% pagespeed score and 96% yslow score, so that is what you can do with processwire, procache and a PureSSD vps from transip

processwire is pretty awesome if you ask me!

[Doug G]

I have a cheap digital ocean droplet with CentOS 7, and on it I installed ispconfig3  http://www.ispconfig.org/

I use it for a development server as well as a private git repository.

This probably isn't the way to go if you're not comfortable with linux

[eelkenet]

On 7-1-2017 at 3:15 PM, Harmen said:

Currently I am hosting my website at transip.

I've had to work with the combination of TransIP and PW for one client, and well.. I wasn't too happy with that. Let's just say they are cheap for a reason..

As a fellow Dutchman I can advise Greenhost.nl. I host most of my clients there. These guys are friendly, professional, and take good care for clients and the world. I have never had any PW-related issues with them.

[Harmen]

@eelkenet

Thanks for the tip! 

And what do your recommend, hire a VPS of just personal/professional hosting?

Edited January 10, 2017 by Harmen

[eelkenet]

@Harmen That depends on what you need and what your client wants to spend of course  

But mostly even the simple personal package is good enough though!

 

[elabx]

I like that VPS gives the advantage of the whole Linux tool chain (if using linux) , now including wireshell. With the disadvantage that, I never want to work on shared hosting that has no shell access lol. That, plus ServerPilot to set up the whole deal, just makes my life much easier.