Hosting

[Qiuyue]

Hi,

I need to host a site in China.

The requirements are:

Linux or Unix server

Apache 1.13.19 or above

PHP 4.2.x or above

MySQL 3.23.x or above

Can anyone recommend anything?

[banjo67xxx]

Please can you be more specific?

I have a few web sites in the US, UK and even one in Taiwan. Some I let my ISP host for me, and I just use their software to create the web site, but most I host myself as follows ...

I have a Sun Ultra-5 on which I run apache, mysql and PHP. Some software came builtin with Solaris 10, others I downloaded and installed from http://www.sunfreeware.com and others I had to download from http://www.soureforge.net compile, debug the compiler problems, and install by hand.

I also use the builtin named to serve the DNS for my domainnames, and have registered my static IP with my domainname ISPs.

To get all this to work from home, I have to have static IP from my broadband ISP, and configure my ADSL modem/router/firewall to forward all traffic for ports 53 (DNS) and port 80 (http) to the Ultra-5.

I don't know if this is any help, as you really need to be more specific about what you want to know ...

[Qiuyue]

Well, I am not very technical.

I run Joomla!-sites, so I need a server that can host that.

Thank you anyway

[gato]

You can try ICDSoft, which allows you to choose from servers in the US or HK. HK servers generally can be accessed fairly quickly from the mainland.

http://www.icdsoft.com/

Pleco is using them for a mirror download site.

See http://www.chinese-forums.com/showthread.php?p=97442#post97442

[Qiuyue]

Thanks, I already had a look at those servers, and they can host Joomla!, but my web-consulter says it isn´t perfect, has something to do with "php.ini for each folder" apparently.

[gato]

If you contact the people at ICDSoft, they might be able to address your problem with php.ini