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INSTALLATION & REQUIREMENTSPlease see the Installation Instructions for information on installing Review Foundry. Choosing A Good Web Hosting CompanyIn short, I recommend BlueHost as a hosting solution if you are looking for a great platform on which to host Review Foundry. But if you may already have a favorite web hosting company that you intend to use to host Review Foundry, you will probably do well to keep using it. Using a great web hosting company, of course, can really help in the eventual success of your site. It also takes away the headaches that can occur if you find yourself on a web hosting platform run by people who really aren't up to the job of supporting you. The better the web hosting platform, these less likely it is that you'll need any support. My recommendation is that you go with a web hosting company that offers your lots of disk space and bandwidth, and which gives you a way to login to your site via SSH (secure telnet) so that you can run some of the Review Foundry processes from the command line, like static page building--or set up cron jobs to do this automatically at scheduled intervals. If you have SSH, Perl and MySQL on your current hosting solution, you're probably set to go. For people who are unsure about their hosting needs, and would like to be pointed in the right direction, I whole-heartily recommend taking a look at BlueHost. The guys at BlueHost have done a fantastic job setting up their system. BlueHost offers everything you need for as little as $7/month, including Perl, PHP, MySQL, and SSH access. They also offer unlimited domain hosting, 1,500 GB of disk space, and 15,000 GB of monthly data transfer, which is excellent. But my recommendation is that you go with the $10/month package. Page load times are great, even when Review Foundry is operated in dynamic mode. Hands down BlueHost is my top web hosting recommendation. « Table of Contents | Obtain Review Foundry » Copyright © 2004 Random Mouse Software. All Rights Reserved. |