Minimum Web-Hosting Requirements

• PHP version 5+
• MySQL 4+
• PDO support (for PHP, enabled for MySQL)
• JSON support (for Ajax)
• Ability to run Cron Jobs (scheduled jobs, very useful when sending out autoresponder & broadcast emails)
• Some flavor of Unix/Linux server operating system
• Preferably Apache web server.

Please note that as a potential DAP user, you don’t have to know what any this means.

These are commonly available on almost all decent web hosts. So it’s ok if you don’t understand a single word from the above list

Also, if your current host does not have any of these features, we’ve seen that most web hosts enable these for your web site, at no additional cost, if you just asked them.

Check with your web host. If they can’t help, then here are a couple of recommended, DAP-Certified web hosts.

Windows -vs- Linux

DAP works right out of the box, flawlessly, on all flavors of Unix/Linux.

But when it comes to Windows servers, while DAP has been found to work on some installations, it all depends on the kind of Windows setup. We have spent way too much time troubleshooting Windows installations, so we do not recommend Windows-based servers. If you must use DAP on a Windows-based server, unfortunately, you’re on your own. We’re unable to support such installations.