MODx best hosting offer

Shared hosting is a kind of most economic choice while virtual private server (VPS for MODX CMS) is more expensive but definetelly should serve faster. VPS is not really that faster then Dedicated server but still can be better then MODXCloud hosting. MODX package goes with preconfigured .htaccess for apache web server while in MODXCloud hosting you will need to set up friendly URLs for ngnix webserver at the moment which can be a pain if you are using something more advanced like multilang content. The benefits of the shared hosting are very obvious - everything is ready. It's possible to locate all server tools in control panel:

General Features:

  • Show / Hide all features
  • Move features around with ease
  • Flexible information sorting
  • Content relevant help built in

Domain Management:

  • Manage Subdomains
  • Manage Parked Domains
  • Manage Addon Domains
  • Redirect URLs

Email Management:

  • Manage Email Accounts
  • Set Disk Space Quotas for Email Accounts
  • Virus Scanning
  • Spam Prevention with SpamAssassin and BoxTrapper
  • Read mail through Webmail Interface
  • Manage Mailing Lists
  • Manage Email Forwarders
  • Create Autoresponders
  • Email Domain Forwarding
  • An interface is available for accounts only needing mail

Site Management:

    • Manage FTP Accounts
    • Allow Anonymous FTP Access
    • Control FTP Sessions
    • Publish to your site using FrontPage
    • Manage your Site's Files
    • Backup your Site
    • Use Custom Error Pages
    • Create Custom MIME Types and Apache Handlers
    • Create and Edit Cron Jobs

Interface Modification:

  • Multiple Themes Available
  • Multiple Looks Available for Each Theme

Security:

  • Block IP Addresses from Accessing your Site
  • Clam AV Antivirus (free addon)
  • Password Protect Directories
  • Prevent Image HotLinking
  • Prevent Bandwidth Leeching
  • Manage Directory Indexing

Statistics:

  • View Raw Access Logs for your Site
  • View Disk Usage
  • View Bandwidth Usage
  • View Web Traffic Statistics
  • View Subdomain Statistics
  • View your Site's Error Log
  • See the Latest Visitors to your Site

Database and Development Tools Support:

  • MySQL and phpMyAdmin
  • PostgreSQL and phpPgAdmin
  • PHP
  • Perl
  • CGI
  • Python

Features to add to your Site:

  • Shopping Carts
  • Guestbooks
  • Image Gallery
  • Forums
  • Wiki
  • Content Management Systems
  • Blogs
  • Publishing Software
  • Counter
  • Clocks
  • FormMail Clone
  • Calendar
  • Chat Rooms
  • FAQ System
  • Support System

 

The VPS can require setting up for the webserver needs. Installing webserver applications is probably not the main problem - VPS server should be monitored by your admin in order to be safe while shared hosts are monitored by the hoster admin team which is more flexible sometimes. Thus, the MODXCloud is good because it's also preconfigured as well as the sharing hosting but costs more and the MODX CMS is not 100% configured for the MODXCloud's used webserver (ngnix). The best is Dedicated server but it's too expensive for some projects. By selecting the VPS for your MODX CMS website it needs to be noted that it's the same as with the shared hosts: your webpage can require 1 sec or for example, 2 seconds  to be outputed by it's webserver depending on server load. So it needs to be clear why a new project should use VPS if it's resources are shared with other sites like on shared hosting.. 

MODXCloud hosting has many features and sounds like it's easy to migrate into it from your shared host or VPS. There are 2 ways either with generating dev transport via Vapor plugin or manual. Vapor seems worked when I tested it but no transport file managed to be located after the Vapor's php scripts worked. So, I used the manual way. It's was surprising when importing database via SSH wokred with issues. The unexpected issue was discovered when this error found: ERROR 1146 (42S02): Table 'instance_c3838_modx.iOS_system_settings' doesn't exist

returned by this select: mysql> select * from instance_c3838_modx.iOS_system_settings

but another select command: mysql> select * from instance_c3838_modx.ios_system_settings

returned the expected results. So, the import has changed the tables names to lower case automatically.

Also, it should be noted that if the website has .htaccess file per apache then it will not work.

This kind of the .htaccess for Friendly_URLs on and apache's mod_rewrite:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(eng|trad|simp)?/?(.*)$ index.php?cultureKey=$1&q=$2 [L,QSA]

not work for MODXCloud's Ngnix webserver. Thus, it will need to be converted to ngnix format, here it is for the example above:

location / {
    
        # MODX babel rewrites
        #rewrite ^/(web|simp|trad)/css(.*)$ /css$2 break;
    
        #rewrite ^/(web|simp|trad)/js(.*)$ /js$2 break;
    
        #rewrite ^/(web|simp|trad)/img(.*)$ /img$2 break;
    
        #rewrite ^/(en|de)/assets(.*)$ /assets$2 break;
    
        #rewrite ^/(en|de)/webfonts(.*)$ /webfonts$2 break;
    
        if (!-e $request_filename){
            rewrite ^/(web|simp|trad)?/?(.*)$ /index.php?cultureKey=$1&q=$2 last;
        }
 
    }

*Another note: err # server derictive not allowed.

There are other issues with MODXCloud like why vi has a few commands disabled so that it is not very easy to edit files via SSH, etc.. General impression is that there is even less control of the MODXCloud server then shared hosting because some shared hosts already provide an option of which PHP version to use and what settings should the PHP run with. So why pay more for MODXCloud but get less tools? The long features list of shared hosting is not that impressive as the MODXCloud control panel allowing to easy manipulate your cloud backup only?

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