Mark P Posted December 6 Share Posted December 6 We develop for Windows (.NET) and so we do not have and cannot have a Linux based server. We don't know how to secure it properly nor diagnose any problems. The overhead is too great for us. Therefore we can only use WHMCS with a virtual hosting package. The first hosting company we used was fine, however they discontinued virtual hosting to focus on dedicated, which wasn't an option for us because of the above. So we were forced to move it. We paid to move the site to another company which has proven to be poor. Most of the issues seem to be related to high load on the database server, as I type this we're seeing Gateway Timeouts. I notice that the WHMCS hosted offering, which would be ideal, remains "under development". We need a reliable hosting provider for the product. Can anyone recommend one? We'd be happy to pay more than whatever this one costs, but we can't go down the road of a VPS or dedicated box, it has to be virtual hosting only. Thank you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear Posted December 6 Share Posted December 6 3 hours ago, Mark P said: We develop for Windows (.NET) and so we do not have and cannot have a Linux based server. Why does your WHMCS installation need to be on the same server you develop your Windows applications on? For us, and I'd personally recommend this, it's on a server totally segregated from hosted sites and clients. Safer, and available if the hosting server(s) fall over. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark P Posted December 6 Author Share Posted December 6 We cannot host a Linux server. We only use Windows servers. While it might be possible to get WHMCS to run on one of our Windows servers with the database on Microsoft SQL Server that isn't, so far as I know, a supported configuration, and we don't have the time to try to make it work. Therefore we must outsource the hosting to a virtual hosting provider. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadWebHosting Posted December 8 Share Posted December 8 On 12/6/2024 at 2:29 AM, Mark P said: Most of the issues seem to be related to high load on the database server, as I type this we're seeing Gateway Timeouts. If your only requirement for this virtual hosted server is hosting your WHMCS, then it shouldn't be too challenging to optimize the server environment for your explicit use. One of the benefits of your requested environment (as I understand it) is that you will have the luxury of tuning your virtual server to meet the demands and overcome the current shortfalls you face on your current platform. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark P Posted December 8 Author Share Posted December 8 We cannot optimise the server environment because we do not and cannot have root access to the server. How well it performs is largely down to the amount of resource it has, which is something over which we do not and cannot have control. Therefore, we need a hosting company that maintains relatively low resource utilisation / number of customers per server, which is where the current one seems to fall down. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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