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Looking for Moodle hosting suggestions

jbarrjbarr Member

I have a Moodle instance installed on HostMyBytes, and since they are closing their VPS service, I need an inexpensive solution to host Moodle. I tried installing on DreamHost, but couldn't get it to work.

Suggestions?

Comments

  • Don't. Just don't

    I promise you don't. Nothing makes me not want to live more than Moodle

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  • trewqtrewq Administrator, Patron Provider
    edited May 2017

    How many concurrent users and what stack do you use?

  • Any Shared Hosting will run Moodle anyway ( http://installatron.com/moodle ). What issues did you run into with DreamHost?

    If you were able to get it running on HMB's VPS, you probably can get it running on any other VPS.

  • jbarrjbarr Member

    @DigitalFyre said:
    Any Shared Hosting will run Moodle anyway ( http://installatron.com/moodle ). What issues did you run into with DreamHost?

    If you were able to get it running on HMB's VPS, you probably can get it running on any other VPS.

    I'll try again.

  • jbarr said: I'll try again.

    Awesome! I hope you manage to get it to work :) If you want to try it on our Shared Hosting, shoot me a PM.

  • RadiRadi Host Rep, Veteran

    I can offer you 1 GB RAM and 20 GB disk space at $5/mo.

  • leckleyleckley Member

    We can certainly assist you!

    I have confirmed Moodle runs on out web hosting services, installed a copy to confirm - http://moodle.demo.podracks.co.uk/

    Please let me know if you are interested.

    Cheers!

  • XEOVOXEOVO Member

    We have VPS 2GB ram and 10GB SSD from $5/mo, or you can try our shared hosting for 2$. I think it's going to be enough for your Moodle.

  • trewqtrewq Administrator, Patron Provider
    edited May 2017

    @jbarr said:

    @DigitalFyre said:
    Any Shared Hosting will run Moodle anyway ( http://installatron.com/moodle ). What issues did you run into with DreamHost?

    If you were able to get it running on HMB's VPS, you probably can get it running on any other VPS.

    I'll try again.

    Moodle on shared hosting is bad advice if it is active. Moodle uses 50MB of RAM per logged in user, it also does a LOT of MySQL queries as you should be running the cron every minute and it makes DB calls for each task to check if it should run.

    I'd recommend sticking with a VPS.

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  • jbarrjbarr Member

    Interestingly, I was able to install Moodle on my DreamHost account and restore the old site without any incident. Not sure why I had issues previously, but it's now a non-issue.

    As to all the offers, I am still looking for a VPS host for some other small projects, so I will review these. Thanks!

  • jbarrjbarr Member

    @GenjiSwitchPls said:
    Don't. Just don't

    I promise you don't. Nothing makes me not want to live more than Moodle

    OK, then can you suggest an alternative for providing interactive online course management? Moodle is the current chosen solution to a specific educational need. I certainly welcome your suggestions.

  • @jbarr said:

    @GenjiSwitchPls said:
    Don't. Just don't

    I promise you don't. Nothing makes me not want to live more than Moodle

    OK, then can you suggest an alternative for providing interactive online course management? Moodle is the current chosen solution to a specific educational need. I certainly welcome your suggestions.

    My college made the switch to Canvas however it's a SaaS not self hosted. I'd highly recommend it over Moodle

  • You can install it on our web hosting plans
    https://rocketrix.com/clients/cart.php

    With just one click using the on click installer

  • imokimok Member

    jbarr said: can you suggest an alternative for providing interactive online course management?

    I don't know too much about this but Open edX seems like an alternative.

  • letssupplyletssupply Member
    edited January 2018

    For few of our projects in Moodle we have used REMOVED FOR SHILLING they offered one click installer for moodle and support was friendly to assist with any difficult faced.

  • trewqtrewq Administrator, Patron Provider
    edited May 2017

    @GenjiSwitchPls said:

    @jbarr said:

    @GenjiSwitchPls said:
    Don't. Just don't

    I promise you don't. Nothing makes me not want to live more than Moodle

    OK, then can you suggest an alternative for providing interactive online course management? Moodle is the current chosen solution to a specific educational need. I certainly welcome your suggestions.

    My college made the switch to Canvas however it's a SaaS not self hosted. I'd highly recommend it over Moodle

    Please no. Moodle might be slow and badly engineered but it's still best in show for LMS selection.

    @jbarr If you need a hand with anything let me know. I manage Moodle for a living (on top of my other duties).

  • hzrhzr Member

    trewq said: Please no. Moodle might be slow and badly engineered but it's still best in show for LMS selection.

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    GenjiSwitchPls said: My college made the switch to Canvas however it's a SaaS not self hosted. I'd highly recommend it over Moodle

    Both unis I've been in the last year use Canvas. It is pretty damn nice, great integrations, tests, and code quality.

    Open source - https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms - I have contributed to it. The SaaS/hosted part is optional.

  • @hzr said:

    trewq said: Please no. Moodle might be slow and badly engineered but it's still best in show for LMS selection.

    -

    GenjiSwitchPls said: My college made the switch to Canvas however it's a SaaS not self hosted. I'd highly recommend it over Moodle

    Both unis I've been in the last year use Canvas. It is pretty damn nice, great integrations, tests, and code quality.

    Open source - https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms - I have contributed to it. The SaaS/hosted part is optional.

    I wasn't aware canvas was open source thats very good and I'd recommend it over Moodle

  • saf31saf31 Member
    edited May 2017

    Anyone using open-edx (https://open.edx.org/) ?? Edx runs on this platform ( https://edx.org/). I have done few courses on edx and I liked the platform. Stanford Lagunita also uses open-edx (https://lagunita.stanford.edu/about)

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