Bad Hosts

If your website is hosted at one of these hosts, and you want to keep it there, you can still use ProPhoto. You just need to get a new domain and hosting for your blog. This only costs about $70 a year, so it's not expensive. Click here for more information.

Yahoo! webhosting works marginally with WordPress, but their control panel and mySQL management is so difficult to use that we highly recommend not using them. Also their tech support is non-existent. And, their WordPress auto installer is deeply flawed and creates all sorts of problems. We won't do Handheld installations there and won't support technical problems that are yahoo-specific. Updated 1/18/10: There is also a known issue where WordPress galleries don't work at all with Yahoo-hosted sites, which prevents any of P3's gallery features from working.

LiveBooks doesn't let you host a WordPress blog on their hosting account, but they will point a subdomain of your site to another hosting account that you must purchase, so you can have something like: blog.mysite.com but you have to purchase additional hosting and do some fairly complex CNAME record manipulation. We won't do handheld installations for LiveBooks customers (unless they have a seperate domain and hosting account for their blog).

IXWebhosting works fine, but they have awful security and people hosted there get their blogs hacked repeatedly and there is nothing they can do about it. Don't host with them if at all possible. We won't do Handheld installations there and won't support technical problems related to blog hackings for people hosted with them. If you are hosted with them and are having problems being hacked, you need to move your blog.

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