March 24, 2010
phpBB Forum software
phpbb (PHP Bulletin Board) is a popular forum script built with PHP web programming language. For storage of data uses MySQL database system, but it also supports other DBS (including PostgreSQL, Oracle, Firebird, MS SQL, SQLite and others). It is free, open-source software, and it is licensed under GNU General Public License. With phpbb you can create online communities with unlimited users, subforums, permissions for users and/or usergroups, administrate, ban. Users can self register, there is a captcha (visual confirmation image) to prevent bots to auto register, or users can be added via admin panel. Plugin (mods – modifications) system is integrated, which allows develelopers to add new features withot altering the core code. There are many plugins available and offer many features including friendly urls (SEO), user and admin tools and other. With style manager you can easily change the entire look of your community forum. Large number of templates are available and you can easily edit them to further style your forum.
Dreamhost phpBB
On dream host you can install and run phpbb without any problems. Your dreamhost account is perfectly setup. For fast installation you can use the one-click control panel installer or if you prefer you can install dremhost manually. On our test the software was running great.
March 14, 2010
Three months since I have an account with dreamhost web hosting provider, and they have been excellent in everything including support, uptime, features etc etc. They are really good host. The price is reasonable and you get what you pay for. Plus there is room to grow (dreamhost offers VPS virtual private servers). In the past three months I have tested dreamhost with various web applications including wordpress, drupal, joomla and others. All scripts worked great on dream host without any problems. Most of the hosts offer Fantastico one-click installer, but dreamhost have it’s own one-click installation tool that works great. For me it ios one of the top 10 web hosting companies in the world. A Happy Dreamhost customer!
March 5, 2010
Uptime for my dreamhost review blog hosted at dreamhost have been great! I have setup uptime monitoring account at serviceuptime.com to monitor this blog’s uptime and downtime. In February out of 1332 checks, none failed! This means that my site have been up 100%. This is great for an online business or even personal site/blog because your site is always accessible at any time. If you want live monitoring statistics check this webpage. Here is a screenshot of the report:
Dreamhost have the best uptime than most of other hosts, and this is big plus. The average loadtime/response time is 0.438 seconds (less than a second) for the server to start sending data back to the browser. This is excellent too (anything below 0.6 seconds is great). With these reports dreamhost have shown that they are serious company and that you can rely on them.