maybe you need to change something in your .htaccess file..

I got this when I asked the question about the size limit

^What is 10M? Megabytes?

I am currently on 195 megabytes with them, what is 10M? Thanks.

Very very nice Hosting and resellers servers.

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Really i don?t understand!!!!

10M I guess is 10 megabytes. I was referring to a single file that can be uploaded/attached in vBulletin. I tried attaching a 40 mb file and I get errors. I emailed them and that is what they told me.

If the host limits this and is unwilling to increase, then there is not much you can do.

The point is not that they are not "unwilling"... they fixed a range of ratios that the clients have to follow. This is how works professional hosts. They are not giving anything "unlimited" because they would have to give permissions to a lot of things that are causing problems on most of the sites that are hosted by them... spam, spoil of resources, etc...

when you have specific needs for your own site, the suggestion is to negociate a commercial account, not a "mostly free" hosting... when you have near-to-free accounts, you have to consider that you will have near-to-no-permissions...

Unwilling!

PS Increasing the max upload limit might affect performance, but has nothing to do with security or "problems".

This is a per-server setting... like i said, you can negociate to have your site on a different server, under different configurations... you have to pay for what you need... (i actually have my own hostgator account having the mailing limit (200 emails per hour) raised because i have negociated with them that i needed to send email all day long...)

and you are right, there is no security risk with bigger files... just a larger risk to have people uploading porn or pirated softwares... and this is against their policies... i suppose this is a way to avoid a part of it.

anyway, when are you in need to upload a 50 gigs file?!

Watch what you hostgator as they are a bit of a joke, there is a ded who works there called richard hes aprat with a cap P, the only dude worth working with is a dude called Ford the billing team if you ask for a refund take a week to reply then ask you if you would like to pump it into hosting, the support team replys are sometimes realy slow. You cant have vbseo running as they says you need a server for it. Normal forum runs fine with them here is my recorded server load with them i have 4 mods installed stats cyb rules auto reply bot force users to read

4.98 2.40 0.93 | 102 Users Online (18 members and 84 guests)

16.23 37.11 38.12 | 199 Users Online (34 members and 165 guests)

6.45 11.96 13.40 | 174 Users Online (31 members and 143 guests)

I have four seperate hosting accounts with Host Gator... Best move I ever made!

I tried them once and had the same problems... when I questioned it they simply said to ignore it. It meant nothing. Needless to say I got out before the 30 days and they did refund me what I had paid.

No HostMonster = Bluehost

Hostgator is a good company.My board uptime and speed is wonderful.Thanks to Hostgator;)

Im now using pulseinternet got a vps off them. They had my vps set up with in 30 minutes the support is even on msn and i dont think the dude sleeps its a great company to use here is my stats


0.09 0.17 0.17 | 382 Users Online (340 members and 42 guests)


https://www.pulseinternet.co.uk/vps/

I use them
no probs so far..........

the360junkies.com i love hostgator but there billing blows

Host Gator is horrible. As soon as your site starts to get somewhat big, they'll throw the resource card on you and shut your site down with no forewarning, you'll just browse to your site and find it shut off. They shut my site off on me constantly for resource limits, I kept upgrading and was upgraded all the way up to semi-dedicated paying $75 a month to share a server that was ABSOLUTELY slower. I finally said screw them and left their shady company. Support is horrible, I also had a lot of down time too.

How large is your site? Mine has around 50-100 on at a time and has a ridiculously high server load (spikes to 20 =\) and they've given me no troubles.

Re: 10 mb limit
My mistake, didn't know you were talking about attaching to a vb post.

10M/10MB refers to megabytes, but MiB does NOT refer to megabytes, they are different, read more on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiB

I thought MB, M and MiB were the same. Mb and MB are different.

I might be moving away from HostGator, not because of the company, but because I'm basically restricted with any shared hosting it seems.

DreamHost are the closest thing to "unlimited", but they're a little too far away for me.

I'm hoping to get one of these with the 30 domain Plesk addon:

http://www.streamline.net/f1.php

I wouldn't go with DreamHost -- they made a "7.5 Million Dollar Mistake" they ended up overcharging ALL of their clients BY TWO YEARS.

Its on their blog, they made a big joke out of it. Rather unprofessional if you ask me.

I used to use DreamHost. I didn't like their support, so I asked for a full-refund (since I was within their 90 day money-back guarantee). They told me that they refunded all of my money, but the next month they charged me over $200 on my bank statement, lol. They said they refunded my money but forgot to take me off their bill. -_- Good thing I noticed. :D

Ouch.. Thats pretty harsh..

I personally like www.crissic.com -- fantastic support and fantastic uptime

All I can say is Hostagator have a great marketing team and are experts at building the best 'image'. I won't say anymore, read between the lines

the best decision i ever made about my site was dropping netfirms and switching to hostgator. havnt had a problem since.

Hostgator do tend to oversell a bit, but they're still a good host for the prices they offer.

Hello,
I use hostgator since 2 months, it is very good, the traffic and support also and all is good except the restriction for sending email. We can't send correctly the mass mail as we just can send 200 per hour.
I'm try to find a solution for this as I would like to conserv this hosting.

Dreamhost is one of the worst hosts you can go to. Their customer support is so bad, their up time is unstable but they lure you in with false cheap prices and high space and bandwidth. I had a plan which was 500 Gigs and around 200 gigs in space and I got banned because I used, 300 of it. They said I used too much and I couldnt get a refund (and they still charged me for the remaining 3 months I didnt use.

Host gator was the best move I made and has superior uptime.

http://kartextreme.net/forum/ Is my vBulletin board.

AmpedHosts.com is the best IMO i have a safe web forum on it and I love their support. They don't limit anything and by Megabytes they mean Megabytes its safe and secure. I love it. And they have cheap hosting plans. I really enjoy there hosting and what it offers. I would definitively recommend them to anyone 10/10 and yes hostgator has always been a pain for me.

Quick update, I've now moved my forums onto my own dedicated webserver with RapidSwitch Ltd, so the link I posted before in this thread isn't an indicator of HostGator's service ;)

What about HostGators response time on transfering a Domain? I had to purchase one though another company since they had it locked down..

Also. How big do you boards have to get before you need a different option for hosting?

transfering domains to host gator takes from 20 mins to 6 hours. mines was around 40 so i was very happy. Usually at other hosters it takes like 1-2 days

Hostgator is the best, my forum is using HostGator: http://realbigsource.com/forum

Currently using Hostgator and very very happy with the service.

Just starting out so not sure about big boards, etc.

But ticket system and Live Chat have been very helpful.

i use http://www.bluehost.com

super service !!! check it out cheap as mofo :)

and will use it till i die

Well I have been happy with HostGator but I was told when I signed up my site wouldnt have a problem running on the Baby level. But yesterday I got my first error saying too many members are connected. I did sign up for a 3 year contract with them too. Guess I will have to wait and see and if it keeps happening, upgrade.

Hi guys, I just did a quick live chat with them, check it out:

Anyone who has 25 or more users on at one have troubles with HostGator?

By the above quote. Doesn't look like you can..

The other day I had 32 members of the site online at once. I was suprised I did not get an email about it. Not sure why but I am not complaining.