PHP shared hosting with opcode caching (eg APC)? [closed]
Never had a chance to actually try it, but people managed to get APC and eAccelerator working on dreamhost shared hosting.
You've got to get your hands dirty and install/compile your own PHP, but wiki entries and dreamhost community are great.
Other good reasons to choose Dreamhost:
- real transparency; you know what, why and when servers are down. RSS feeds ad blog entries tell you what is actually going on. Even if a fat finger is to blame :-)
- tech support is just great
- green hosting
- the administration panel is nice and you get stuff done quickly
- lots of services available (SSH, linux users, SVN repository, cron jobs...) and cheap
If you ever want to subscribe, look for promo codes (to get a better deal) or just ask!
Edit: If you want to try VPS hosting, Dreamhost's VPS hosting plan works fine and is based on the server memory added (you can change it on the fly to save money).
Hostgator's shared plan does not allow popular php cache(like opcode caching modulus, Xcache, APC, eaccelator etc), because make customer to move to VPS or Dedicated server.
Hostgator is worst choice for website builders who hope to try PHP + Cache.