Advice on hosting first processwire site

[sambadave]

Hi guys

I'm going to be building my first processwire site for a friend. I've found a hosting provider and I just wanted to check that the hosting package has all the requirements I need to run a process wire site. From what i can see it does but I'm not too sure with these things.

I'm a designer / front-end guy but I've never put a site live before so any feedback would be very helpful before I purchase. I would be looking at the Business package from this link

http://www.uk2.net/web-hosting/#tech-specs

Really enjoying processwire so far. Fantastic CMS!

Thanks in advance for any help provided.

[peterfoeng]

Hi,

Looking into the hosting, it seems pretty good and pretty sure can run processwire without issues. You might want to double check the requirement page again:

http://processwire.com/about/requirements/

Good luck with the first PW site!

[pwired]

Looks like an average hoster. Keep an eye on how they handle the .htaccess file.

Some hosters force you to use one, others don't allow all options.

[totoff]

You may use a script developed for Contao open source CMS to check the hosting environment: https://github.com/contao/check

If the script reports that you need the so called "safe mode hack" most likely your  ./site/assets/ and ./site/config.php won't be writeable.  In this case you need to set permission to 777 (not recommended) or (depending on hosting environment) switch to FastCGI via .htaccess.

[dazzyweb]

That hosting should be fine to use processwire. I think that most modern hosting providers should be able to handle processwire.

If I was you I would look around a bit more before committing as looking at UK2 promotion it looks like they are enticing people in for the package at £2.49 then it will revert back up to £14.95 once contract has ended.

[pwired]

@totof

it reports 404

<link removed>

[Nico Knoll]

@pwired: That site looks exactly like Vimeo?! 

[Pete]

@pwired - my Trend Micro at work threw up this error on the website you linked to:

Rating:  Dangerous  Verified fraudulent page or threat source.

I've removed the link in your post because this scanner is usually right!

[pwired]

I uploaded that check from totoff to a free server just to see how it would work.

It is supposed to check a hosting environment.

Pete, did you check the contents of the folder check, or something else ?

[Pete]

The alert I got refers to the domain where it was uploaded, so the free server service might be the issue? Can you PM me the URL to their service and I can confirm.

[pwired]

Right away, give me 3 min.

[pwired]

reuploaded check folder

looks like it is working now.

Click on all links where it says more information to see all the info there

Do not click on install contao

[totoff]

looks like it is working now.

glad you got it working. alternative download link (bottom of the page):

https://contao.org/en/manual/3.0/installation.html#configuring-the-live-server

[sambadave]

Thanks for the help everyone. Much appreciated.