Looking for good unix/linux host with the following characteristics...

I have just closed 2 accounts on GoDaddy because I finally figured out they really do suck when it comes to UNIX/Linux hosting. All I am looking for is a host that will allow email scripts using the php mail function and the gd library. I found a very easy, secure script I want to use called DoDo's Mail, and trying to get this thing to work on GoDaddy was so stressful. I am new at php and while I have worked with UNIX before and written some perl I am not very knowledgeable about settings and configurations.

Basically I am looking for a hosting company who sets up their services without a lot of restrictions like GoDaddy. I also need client-side email support. I will also be doing some database stuff with MySQL and one or two more simple forms to take information from an online form and post it on another web page. Further one other thing I am looking into is to be able to upload pictures automatically which is something that the server needs to support, well it does if you cannot write that kind of thing by hand.

Can anyone out there make a recommendation to a good hosting company where I can transfer 2 domains, have the account set up easily and who has good technical support concerning UNIX/Linux? Every time I called DoDaddy to assist with something the tech knew *nothing* about the Linux or php settings, and I always had to end up asking to speak with someone familiar with this service. It was pretty pathetic and I am pretty bummed at this point since the test site was supposed to be up tomorrow...

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thank you!!

Jen Swartz

Hi there,

Are you looking for offers or suggestions?

You said you wanted to modify or need to have some special settings that the pervious web host was not able to do for you.

Could we know what you need and also whats your proposed or comfortable budget for this?

Hi
Please let us know that you are looking for suggestions else for offers. If you say, we can suggest and also post offers.
Hope you would let us know th exact requirement you are in need.

Hi Jen,

You could give us a try

We support PHP mail and GD/ImageMagick. However we have restrictions on mailing lists naturally to prevent SPAM.

Drop me a PM or confirm what kind of hosting plan you are after so I can give you some quotes.

Regards,
Suhail.

Hi Jen,
Space and bandwidth requirements would be nice to know. Country-Tyme currently hosts a few clients with the same requirements as yourself. Please feel free to drop us a line

Kindest regards,

Liane
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Hello I am responding to the questions that were posed to me from my post earlier... I hope I provided everything that people need to make some suggestions of a good hosting company, if you need more please let me know.
Thank you all for you assistance!

Jennifer

1) I am looking for suggestions, someone who you have used or know that you would recommend.

2) Space and Bandwidth looking for 50-100 gb would be fine...Bandwidth.. I don't know much about that but the site needs to have one form that people can fill out and have it emailed to the people in the office, I was trying to get DoDos Mail script to work because it uses something called captcha for security and I like it very much but could not get it to work on GoDaddy. I would say that this would not be filled out more than 20-30 times a day, very low usage on the form and probably never more than 50 concurrent users at one time viewing the site.

3) I was originally looking for a UNIX box that uses Apache v 2.0 and php v 5 just because I can get DoDos mail to work on that, but I am new to this however, the main thing I am looking for is that the mail function in php enabled and that all the php and gd libraries are installed. Those are requirements for this particular script.

4) Those are the only real requirements I know I need but I am looking for a hosting company that does not have the kind of restrictions that GoDaddy does and will assist with issues when they arise and that all logs, server and mail, are made available to the user.

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