DAP works off-the-shelf on almost all decent web hosts.
But as in any industry, some hosts are just outdated, run old, outdated and deprecated versions of the software, do not offer a choice to upgrade to the latest server software (like a recent version of PHP or MySQL). And some are just not helpful at all.
If you had a choice of picking a new web host, then here are the web hosts we use ourselves, and highly recommend, and they have everything readily available that DAP needs to run smoothly.
1) Dream Host
2) Host Monster
3) Blue Host
If your host is not shown here, it doesn’t mean that DAP won’t work on your host.
These just happen to be the ones we recommend if you have the option of picking a new web host.
Plus that is exactly why we offer the free 30-day trial – to make sure DAP can run on your current web site, and also help you decide if DAP will work for you.
So there’s no risk to you, regardless of who you are hosting with.
- Ravi
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I use BlueHost. What has been your experience with this hosting company?
Anna
Anna,
Yes, DAP works fine with BlueHost.
- Ravi
Hi Ravi,
What do you think of Dreamhost?
I see the link points to another host. Any opinions on MediaTemple?
Steve,
Sorry about that. See now. Link is fixed.
I’ve heard good things about MediaTemple, but have no personal experience (either myself or through any of my clients/DAP users).
- Ravi
Hey Ravi, just to let you know I moved my DAP site away from GVO/Kiosk and onto a VPS with http://ServintHosting.com
Been very smooth so far, although they did need to enable PDO the first time.
Bob
A note about bluehost – they don’t allow users to send email through any ports, so using DAP’s SMTP option will be difficult.
I had a problem with bluehost. DAP worked fine but one of the updates made it unworkable. Does it work now? I’ve still got it on the website but I do not have it activated on wordpress
Is anyone using DAP successfully on HostGator’s servers?
TIA!
Dave, we don’t know what changes bluehost made on your server. So unable to comment if DAP will work now on your servers. But if you had an issue with a specific version of DAP, then just download the latest one from your member’s area, and upload it.
Ken, lots are using HostGator (HG). We are using HG for one of our own membership sites, plus almost ALL of our “Membership Site In A Box” sites for our clients have been setup on HG.
- Ravi Jayagopal
Ravi,
Does DAP get around the following HostGator Email list limits? Dream Host doesn’t have the same limitations, and it seems it would be easy to have more than 50 Products (and hence Email List). Thanks.
Hatching: 20 Lists Max
Baby : 25 Lists Max
Business: 50 Lists Max
Brad,
Are you asking about email list “size”? Then none of the host really have a size limitation.
What they do impose is an hourly “Email Sending” limitation. You can only send X emails per hour.
For that, DAP does have in-built email scheduling. You can set the hourly limit on out going emails, on the “SMTP” screen. That way you stay under your host’s hourly-email-sending limit.
- Ravi
Ravi,
No, I was asking about the number of email lists we are allowed to maintain. HostGator has the limits I posted above. I think you may be getting around these limits by keeping the DAP email lists in a database, but I wanted to be sure. Thanks again.
Brad,
DAP doesn’t use your web host’s list. All DAP user information is stored in DAP’s own database.
So what you are asking about is not an issue.
- Ravi
Is this option (Digital Access Pass) suitable for a paid subscription newsletter?
Does REGISTER.COM support DAP?
Any experience with VISTAPRINT websites?
Does DAP have a payment feature? Password Protection?
Michael,
Yes, DAP is suitable for a paid subscription newsletter. Does Register.com offer web hosting services too? I thought they were just a domain name registrar. Vistaprint just prints cards as far as I know, so have no idea if they offer web hosting. DAP does have a payment feature and can password-protect content. Please see http://DigitalAccessPass.com/features.php
- Ravi Jayagopal
Just wanted to let everyone know that FatCow has PDO enabled so DAP will work on their servers.
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I am interested in using WPCDN to host my dap site. They are running lightspeed server instead of apache Can dap run on lightspeed server?
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