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  1. Nic

    Nic Sleepy Head

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    Pretty sure this shouldn't be in here but I can't find anywhere more relevant.

    Anyway, my final year project is an e-learning system that I'm building based on moodle and I need to host it online. I want to do this as cheaply as possible since only about 50 people will ever access it. I prefer CPanel access as it makes the moodle installation easier. I'd also like a monthly billing cycle as I only need it up for about 3 months max...

    Other requirements are:

    Hardware

    Disk space: 160MB free (min). You will require more free space to store your teaching materials.
    Memory: 256MB (min), 1GB (recommended). The general rule of thumb is that Moodle can support 50 concurrent users for every 1GB of RAM, but this will vary depending on your specific hardware and software combination.
    This includes hosting limits of PHP or MySQL on a hosting service.

    Software

    Moodle requires a web server environment and will run in Apache and IIS easily. Moodle should run in any server environment that supports PHP.
    Moodle is written in the PHP scripting language. Moodle 2.0 needs PHP v 5.2.8. There have been some issues with deprecated tags in PHP v 5.3.0 which have a negative impact on a number of PHP Apps, Moodle not exempted, so please ensure your PHP version is later than v 5.3.2 if using a v5.3.x. There has also been reported some issues installing Moodle with PHP-Accelerator. See the PHP Moodle version requirements here PHP settings by Moodle version for more information.
    Moodle will use MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle as a database, but no others.


    Tried Galaxy Web Solutions on a friend's suggestion but it was absolutely dire. Half the time it wouldn't let me log into my account.

    So if anyone has any suggestions, that would be brilliant.

    Cheers
     
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  3. Nic

    Nic Sleepy Head

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    Cheers for that Sniper, I was actually looking into United Hosting beforehand so will probably just go with that.

    Now I've messed around sorting that for so long, the actual work must begin :dry:
     

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