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I know this has probably been asked atleast 75 bajillion times, but, I need advice. If it doesn't go here, please close it.

I'm going to be starting my first PHP project, and I need good web hosting. I need hosting that:

  • Cheap as possible, but, not free (free hosting is usually crappy)
  • SSH access would be nice, FTP is also okay.
  • PHPMyAdmin would be excellent
  • Some way to install Kohana would be great.
  • Updated version of PHP, 5.3.x would be good.

Thanks

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I believe the saying is "Server Fault is not a shopping site". – womble Jul 13 '11 at 7:37
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closed as off topic by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, Antoine Benkemoun, Iain♦, womble, Tom O'Connor Jul 13 '11 at 9:40

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If you're comfortable administering linux, you can start with the Amazon EC2 free tier. You get a 600MB virtual private server for free for a year. You can then load whatever software you want. It's a great introduction to cloud computing.

The only catch that I've found is that the free instance becomes unresponsive if it is under sustained load. This has happened to me only when loading some large software packages and there are ways around it.

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