Sorry Guys!!!!

[SJFE]

I agree with the forum move. This thing has takin on a life of its own. Then you have guys who live on it..and the store..(I wouldent know anything about that). You have enough users to keep an active FE chat room open. I wonder who could host something like that??....lol

[Steven Vaccaro]

Right now the forum is a subdomain that's the reason the url looks like this
http://forums.offshoreelectrics.com/ That wouldn't change. As a matter of fact the end user would have no idea that the 2 places are kept separate.

As far as chat goes, let me look into it. Should be to hard to do.

[Drunken Pirate]

Hosting is the suck

Steven,

About your data needs... Are you talking an MSSQL 2k,5k? Or are you talking MYSQL, Firebird, Berkley open source stuff?

You are correct, if you have data needs then you have just drawn a line in the sand for hosting companies.

Go daddy is a good slut cheapo alternative for hosting data stores. Most people that use them don't have a problem. Though there are some that do. They are also known to shut down a site they are hosting at the first sign of DMCA trouble.

I don't know what kind of setup you have at home But you could use something like Dyndns and set up your server at home. But unless you have some nice bandwidth and a dedicated power monster I doubt you could serve the standard ammount of users you normally get.

But if you want quality hosting with data services, like all things, it's gonna cost more, as I am very sure you already know.

I don't recommend anyone but i can sure give you my two cents on them.

I have two servers at home, a LFS Linux system running Apache, Firebird, and Mono (two pII copermine 600's, very cheap and powerful) and another windows based server running MSSQL 5k and IIS. My domain is registered with Dyndns. I like that setup very much.

Good luck.

[Steven Vaccaro]

Thanks for the input. You are correct, I'm talking mssql. Problem is I have no idea about that stuff, accept for that I need it. Home is out of the question. I just have too much on my plate to take something like that on.

[Drunken Pirate]

Ok, I just asked a few of my fellows for some hosting ideas for PHP and MSSQL servers.

http://www.discountasp.net Looks like a good place. They have redundant servers and connections on their end, that means no down time. They serve PHP as well as asp.net and an entire slew of DB's including MSSQL. Looks like they have a very nice sql migration tool.

If I were to suggest something.. and I am not, just informing.. I might suggest these guys.

[Steven Vaccaro]

Just spoke to my website guy, he says we need a MySQL host.