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Lately I see al lot of questions regarding hosting and people not being happy with their host. I would like to know if branching into dedicated codigniter hosting is viable.
If I where to offer such a service, is there anyone interested?
What kind of hosting are you looking for? Is it just for development purposes with monthly contract? Is there a need for shared hosting or reseller packages? What about dedi’s? Or cloud?
What kind of SLA are you looking for?

Is there interest in a european based dedicated codeigniter hosting provider?

Thanx for reading and your input,

Rogier

How would this benefit us, dedicated CodeIgniter hosting?

I may be wrong, but I thought all you needed was PHP enabled in your any webspace and to upload the 1MB of CodeIgniter files.

I suppose any support given with the suggested service would indeed be helpful for CodeIgniter specific queries.

Considering you can pretty much do anything with CI there isnt a specific way that you should host CodeIgniter. I mean smaller apps should go with the shared, larger to cloud clusters implementing memcached, and various other solutions… you just have to find what fits you and go with it. There are always going to be people who hate a host because of A but others who love them because of B.

Yes all you need is PHP and a webserver like apache. But I was thinking more along the line of out of the box support and examples for .htaccess, examples for directory structures and so on. Most hosts don’t even know what codigniter is, let alone know how to support it.

So how would dedicated codeigniter hosting benefit you?

* years of experience with codeigniter
* Development packages, tailored to you need ( which means cheap:-) )
* Subversion and svn help
* Codeigniter help for .htaccess and structuring
* Easy migration from dev to live server
* Custom codeigniter help

But judging from the responses or lack of, I guess there is no need for such a thing. Well to bad, back to the drawing board

Thanks for you responses guys

For something like Expression Engine that has a defined structure where you can only mess up certain things,  i could see it (well it does exist enginehosting) but support for newbie’s codebases would overwhelm a support department… thats what the forums are for. Cool Idea though… 😊

I’ve been thinking for a while that engine hosting should open up shop in the UK. Mostly because i haven’t really found any hosting company i am totally happy with here. I was with 1and1 and was pretty happy until recently. I’ve now gone over to someone else but i’m still no 100% happy with it.