Does anybody have any feedback on PowerDNN?

Tony seems very helpful but I would like to see some example websites/speed.

my site www.retirementlifestyle.com.au is hosted by PowerDNN.

Wow, very impressive speed (first time was a bit slow but once loaded) - impressed!
Is that the Professional plan (if you don't mind me asking?).

very interesting results Rodney, thanks for the info

My kinda hosting provider!! Exremeley knowledgable and most important friendly. Hosting packages with ideal monthly payments, maybe a bit pricey. However, their service, staff, and description of facilities are outstanding. Not to mention, they are recognised as "DNN Platinium Benefactor" for their services and knowledge of DNN. Thanks to Rodney's post on Smart-thinker, i was convinced to accept due to their impressive results

Just signed up with them .. they are going through a major overhaul of their control panel, etc .. but they are working hard and bend over backwards to take care of things.

I like them so far and I intend to stay with them.

I register domain names on 1and1 and then forward to powerDNN name servers to start the process.

HI,

I have my site www.virtualgolfsociety.co.uk with PowerDNN, and its true Tony is beyond helpful and really work hard to get your site working.

Sadly I do have one problem which I think Tony has given up on as he cannot find a solution. My "remember login details" no longer works. It used to when I hosted at home but since moving to PowerDNN it no longer works. I am sadly still running DNN1 but the site works well except for this problem.

I am also having trouble uploading data in to my DB's. I have static tables that I use as lookup (I have created a lot of new modules).

I would be even happier with Tony and PowerDNN if someone could help out with these two issues.

The login is the biggest problem as my members are complaining but the upload is also important as I need to upload some new data.

Can anyone help??

Thanks

Simeon.

Hi Simeon

I've got the same problem with my sites on PowerDNN. I have raised it with Tony and at first I thought it was a 3.2.x error (or 4.3.x) but I using the old 3.x version still and getting the same logout problem.

Maybe it's the virus scanner or something that is deleting the cookie?

I have been using PowerDNN for a while now and have no complaints. Tony has helped me out in the middle of the morning when I have had problems due to my errors. Nothing but exceptional support and Knowledge about DNN. And performance has never been an issue. I am a satisfied customer and highly recommend PowerDNN for anyone looking for a good professional host.

From GoDaddy thru Reseller Choice and now to PowerDNN

The migration to PoawerDNn was easy - Just provide an "zip" of the files and a "bak" of the database. 

Unfortunatly I set it up using a "spare" domain name www.AgingSafelyHosting.com while my production site was still at GoDaddy as www.AgingSafely.com The database had portal aliases for both so this made testing easy.

PowerDNN's control panel took some getting used to as one would expect, but works fine.

While I was finishing my testing the menu disappeared from my GoDaddy site without any help from me, so I quickly decided the NOW was the time to finih the migration. What was remaining was for PowerDNN to rename several items from AgingSafelyHosting.com to AgingSafely.com. Somehow in the process write permissions disapeard from several important directories. The site worked but I couldn't upload files, install modules etc. I could only change items that were located in the sql database.

It took 3 tickets before PowerDNN got the permissions right, but they did and the problem was not visable to my customers. All is working well and I am happy with them.

I never had a complaint about speed at Godaddy and my site is about as fast at PowerDNN. I am much happier with the support, tools, people and capabilities at PowerDNN. 

/DaveS

Rodney,

Are you still satisfied ???
I have lots of downtime problem with WebHost4Life (WH4L), and I am sending my 7th remedy ticket to them. I sincerely hope to find a solution, but without solution, I will be obliged to move... 96% of uptime is not good enough for me (~1 hour downtime each day, regularly one continuous hour !!).

DV

I too am still happy. They seems to have 30-90 minutes downtime every couple of weeks in the middle of the night (~11PM PST). I know this because i have Host Tracker setup to email my cell phone when the site is down for more than about 30-40 minutes.  Tony claims this is do to MS critical patches being applied.  I would have though that they would apply the autpmatic patches on a test system PRIOR to inflicting them on us for the first time. However, no customer has noticed.

The support is great.

I'm not sure if you are talking about remembering the login to the Plesk control panel or DNN. If it is DNN you are talking about a web.config entry will make DNN remember you for ever unless you logout.


      <form>s name=".DOTNETNUKE" protection="All" timeout="10080" slidingExpiration="true" cookieless="UseCookies" />
      <!-- DWS was 60  and slidingExpiration not mentioned -->
   

Regards,
/DaveS

Hello David,

My main problem currently is DOWNTIME (1 hour every 2 days). For me, this is not possible anymore. Do you imagine this website unavailable 1 hour every 2 days ?
Their support is great, they already moved me 2 times (Web server and database and application pool). It works 7 days, and then come a new customer (I imagine), and I have downtime.....
Very very sad, I have tried 3 hosting for the moment.... I do not really want to change, but if I am obliged...

DV

When I moved from GoDaddy, PoweDNN made it easy. I had cloned from Godaddy to localhost and upgraded to a later DNN version. All I did was gice them the zip of the files and the bak of the database. 

They had a problem a while ago where you could backup your site automaticall and on demand, but the Pleask tools didn't do the restore correctly when done by the user. I had to restore once and whenh it failed they imediatly offered do the restore by hand and email when it was done.  It is well worth the $20/mo.

They keep asking me to upgrade to the $50/mo package but aren't real clear what I get besides twice the resources and a static IP.  If I could get 2 IP's on different class-C subdomains and place my "parent portals" on one IP and my primary domain on the other, so that Google would treat them as different sites I might consider it worth it.

The one downside of PowerDNN is that I can't use them for email. They lump the web and email into the same 1GB of space, so I don't dare host my email there. I am using Google Apps and have it there where I get 100 accounts with 2GB each for free.  The spam handling seems good, but I have occasional pop-timeouts.

If you want to see how the performance is hit my site www.AgingSafely.com and check the speed. I am running PageBlaster on it.

Good luck moving where ever you go,
/DaveS

I am talking of the DOWNTIME... My speed is very good (I find so...)
DV

if you follow lees tutorials about transfering from your local host to your live server,  powerdnn does not give you access to restore your sql .bak file.   My experience doing this was to give up at about 2pm which started at about 8 am. and I decided to just wipe out the site and start a new installation and just copy the html and recreate the site, which seemed to be faster since it only took me 3 hours to recreate the site and it took about 6 hours of the site being down.  I followed all of the steps and have transfered sites from local to live at other hosts sucessfully. lees tutorials worked fine at webhost4life.  powerdnn suggested that i needed windows xp server desktop or something like that.   I will do all my work on the live site except for module developement from now on.

Hey Webmonkey,
Are you trying to restore the database BAK to your hosting account at PowerDNN or to your local desktop? I know that I've seen lots of times when people try to restore the BAKs to their local computer, they don't change the internal paths in the BAKs (it isn't completely obvious) and then SQL Server won't let you restore it because of that.

-Tony V.

Hey DavidWSnow, I know this is a bit off topic but I noticed the search form and application that you use to search for and display the adult family homes. I think that application is great. I was wondering did you use a paticular module to create that or was that custom development? Thanks.

The application was built by me but uses ListX from Bi4ce for about $70 as I recall. It handles all of the "Ajax magic" that makes the the results module update as you tick the boxes in the search module. It has a steep learning curve but is a great module. The manual is very complete and accurate at describing what each function does (much like a dictionary describes each word). However, there is little guidance on stringing these function together to get a good application. Hence the steep learning curve.

If you need to print content and don't like DNN's crazy print function look at the "print page icon and what it does. This comes from another idea from Kevin S. of Bi4ce (the guy who did the procedure for fixing the image paths when moving sites between localhost and productions site) This uses a simple bit of JavaScript and allows you to specify the divs that you want printed.

If you are considering using ListX and want some ideas or pointers contact me offline.
/DaveS