Recently I've had the joy (sarcasm here) of working on a Telus shared hosting plan. It's not something I'd recommend for anyone who wants any sort of data driven website but I've found a workable if not ideal solution.
The first thing to note with Telus is how slow the servers are. I can't say whether it is the mysql server or the equipment, or the php (no phpinfo allowed), but I can say with concrete5 it was 30 -90 seconds, timeouts errors and more making the system unworkable.
Note: If you want to use concrete5 I like Bluehost with the auto-installer, and it works fine on Dreamhost as well.
After building the site in concrete5 only to be stifled by the server, I decided to try a wordpress installation. I did find a few websites that said wordpress was terrible on telus too but I had to try it for myself. To my surprise the wordpress site performs reasonably well. True some pages take up to 8 seconds to load but with supercache this may be reduced for site visitors.
I had to manually install wordpress, which includes using the Telus archaic control panel but it really isn't that hard. Note they recommend filezilla for ftp and it seemed to work way better than my Dreamweaver ftp.
The site I'm working on isn't live yet and I haven't tested under any sort of load but I can say at least there is a chance that wordpress will create a reasonably working CMS on Telus hosting.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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