Questions before signup

[xaradu]

Hello,
(sorry for my english)

I hosted websites and specialized applications on a hosting company and i would like to change because i have too many interruption of our services.

We host php applications than use a mysl database. Our partners send us data throught http request against the application. We also send query every 20 secondes to the applications in order to get data.

I seems that your services are very good. Can we host this kind of application with you without problem ?

The most important for us is the uptime and the speed because our application runs realtime, 7j/7 24h/24.

We need your response before signup.

(sorry for my english)

Cordially,

Cesar NGouan

[TheExoticFish]

I'm not 100% sure but on a shared account I'd say that sounds like it would be a problem. On a dedicated server it may be allowed.

[regentronique]

Hello Cesar,

We host php applications than use a mysl database. Our partners send us data throught http request against the application. We also send query every 20 secondes to the applications in order to get data.

At first sight, it seems that there won't be any problems with shared hosting.

Unless you have hundreds of partners sending data each 20 seconds, but from your message its seems more that they will send data just from time to time. And unless your query to the database is very very intensive with huge amount of data to process, but it do not look it is the case here.

The most important for us is the uptime and the speed because our application runs realtime, 7j/7 24h/24.

The uptime is generally good here, speed is good if you are in US or not too far and with a good ISP and carrier between you and HostGator server.

I would suggest that you Ping HostGator.com just to give you an idea of the latency time you could expect from having your server there.

[striddy]

Further to what Regentronique just posted, also you should check that your site doesn't violate the TOS in particular:

7a.) Resource Usage
User may not:
a) Use 25% or more of system resources for longer then 90 seconds. There are numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include: CGI scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.
b) Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
c) Run any type of web spider or indexer (including Google Cash / AdSpy) on shared servers.
d) Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
e) Run any bit torrent application, tracker, or client. Please note that you may link to torrents off server, but may not host or store them.
f) Participate in any file-sharing/peer-to-peer activities
g) Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life, battlefield1942, etc
h) Run cron entries with intervals of less than 15 minutes

http://www.hostgator.com/tos.shtml

[TheExoticFish]

Originally Posted by xaradu

We host php applications than use a mysl database. Our partners send us data throught http request against the application. We also send query every 20 secondes to the applications in order to get data.

This to me seems like they will be running something similar to 7b.
Even 7f states that you cannot do p2p activities which is what these processes would be, would it not ?

[gwyneth]

Originally Posted by TheExoticFish

This to me seems like they will be running something similar to 7b.
Even 7f states that you cannot do p2p activities which is what these processes would be, would it not ?

Actually, it sounds more like a forum or any of a number of php/mysql web apps, all of which use http to request and serve data.

The OP said nothing about p2p, or anything that sounds like 7b.

The potential problem is the "every 20 seconds" but as regentronique noted that may or may not be a problem.

[slapshotw]

Originally Posted by TheExoticFish

This to me seems like they will be running something similar to 7b.

HTTP request is just a regular "make a request (aka *go to* or *post to*) a URL. Everytime somebody uses your website they are making an HTTP request. If you get one visitor every 20 seconds, it's the same as what this person is asking.

[regentronique]

Seems that i am not the only one to have understood that part

[TheExoticFish]

I'm referring to the "application" part. I took that as meaning a program on a clients PC sending and receiving requests from the server.

I know what an HTTP request is.

[vmedia]

i have never had any trouble with my hosting here. i run all sorts of scripts and HG has been spot-on every time.

with that said if you're running very memory intensive apps then you should be looking at dedicated hosting. on shared all the memory is shared among the users.

but again - i've not had a problem yet!

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[charlesgan]

Originally Posted by TheExoticFish

I'm referring to the "application" part. I took that as meaning a program on a clients PC sending and receiving requests from the server.

I know what an HTTP request is.

application term is very broad.. not just refering to software that doing remote procedure or remote processing etc. unless you are refering to "application software"