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.
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Hi Chris I'm having a battle with wordpress and telus. Can you shed some light on the file stucture that you have set up to run wp.
ReplyDeleteI did the install through the archaic control panel and have no luck with help to explain why non of the plugins work they all need to reach the php file which of course we don't have permission for. I'm getting very frustrated and hope that you can shed some light. I have never posted a comment before so I hope I've done this right.
I side note. I ran the theme and the plugins all in the local host and they are all good.