HostGator?

I noticed in other threads HostGator is recommended by some members, I had a look and their pricing is fine for me as well.

I'd like to see some VB's running there, can anybody who host there post some links for me pls!

[loonytune15]

Originally Posted by edongski

I want to follow up my question that you can upload more than 10 mb of file in vBulletin under a shared plan.

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

[edongski]

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

Hello,
The server-wide maximum size is 10M. We cannot increase it any further.


Regards,
Richard F.
Systems Administrator
Hostgator Support

[TCE Killa]

^What is 10M? Megabytes?

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

[MrPHD]

Very very nice Hosting and resellers servers.

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Originally Posted by TCE Killa

^What is 10M? Megabytes?

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

Really i don?t understand!!!!

[edongski]

Originally Posted by TCE Killa

^What is 10M? Megabytes?

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

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.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

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

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

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...

[Marco van Herwaarden]

The server-wide maximum size is 10M. We cannot increase it any further.


Regards,
Richard F.
Systems Administrator
Hostgator Support

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?!

[sp0okz]

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)