[MOGmartin]

Originally Posted by Big-Pete

Sorry, A bit off topic, But im curious about cloud hosting, How does this work with VB? is it easy to integrate? I've got a amazon S3 account but it looks complicated to set up, so if Rackspace is easier i'll get an account there..

no problems - Ive looked at S3 as well, but have found rackspacecloud far, far easier to get to grips with.

Its not only an excellent dependable platform, but it handles spikes with total ease. I had a massive traffic spike about a year ago on a site that host there, and received 120,000 visits in the space of 3 hours to a wordpress site, and it handled it with no slowdown whatsoever.

Its not cheap (I think it starts at $150 per month these days, although Im grandfathered in on the old $100 per month rate) - BUT ITS TOTALLY WORTH IT.

In the last 10 years Ive used probably 25+ hosts, and this one is hands down the best.


EDIT: In response to your question on integration, yes, its super easy, the php hosting is dead straightforward, and the only modification to the db handling is an unusual hostname rather than "localhost". They will give you a free trial month to get to grips with it, give it a shot, you will be impressed, I GUARANTEE...