TheRealSol

Hello, I am interested in signing up for a shared hosting package during the promotion. I do, however, have a few questions that I want answered before I do so.

1) Is Virtual Directory Support enabled in PHP?

2) What version of Apache is used?

3) Will the free package from the promotion be identical to the paid one in all features? (I assume it will have 10 addon domains too, right?)

4) Are they any limits I should know about? (Such as MySQL connection limits, e-mail limits per hour, etc.)

5) Is there any chance of seeing phpinfo() to see PHP's settings?

deastwood

ill answer question 3,4,5 for you, as i have just moved onto dedicated i cant answer 2 and im not sure about 1.

3. The packages are identical you are correct (yes to the 10 addon domains)
4. mysql connection limits = 20 concurrent connections, think email limit per hour is 350.
5. phpinfo as far as i am aware they will not post the phpinfo up, what is it in particular you are looking to find out.

As this is mostly a customer based forum i am sure someone else with the appropriate knowledge will be able to answer the remaining questions, I hope you choose to take surpass, you won't regrett it.

TheRealSol

Virtual Directory support is important so that I can make urls like the following: www.fakesite.com/index.php/article/102/

The actual file is index.php and then I can "explode" $PATH_INFO. This way Google treats index.php/article/102/ as a seperate page to index.php

If I used index.php?type=article&id=102 google would treat it as the same page as index.php which means poor indexing.

Without Virtual Directory Support index.php/article/102/ would return a 404 because the actual page doesn't exist.

Skipdawg

Virtual Directory support looks to be disabled by default. You can ask surpass more about that though since it is important to you.

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TheRealSol

It is indeed very important. If it's disabled then it wouldn't be worth it for me.

I don't suppose there's any chance of that changing?

It shouldn't really be disabled anyway, seeing as it's a way of making pages that are properly indexed.

Geoff

that looks like a job for mod_rewrite? which is available is it not?

otherwise i have never seen the term virtual directory used in this sense

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Kayla

Please see the two phpinfo files in the following directory:

http://sh99.surpasshosting.com/~phpinfot/

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TheRealSol

Well my existing scripts are built to use virtual directory, a much better solution in my opinion. So it is somewhat pointless to sign up for hosting where it is disabled. Is there any paticular reason it's disabled?

I was under the impression that PHP 4.3.11 was used as oppose to PHP 5. So why are both included there?

Rai

All new servers have both php 4 and php 5.

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