btw. if i understood well, converting this idea: the value of hundreds/thousnds of forum signatures is poor too, because same IP?
moneyballs, thanks, i didn't know about that, i will try hard to get my future directories setup on different IP's.
I guess you could be correct on that longhand, it makes sense as i doubt hundreds or thousands of links all coming from the same forum will be counted.
It would probably work as they support php and mysql. But Servage is known for overselling. And they sometimes suspend sites when they use too much bandwitdh or space and blame it onto "cpu usage" http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2172464 ^^ check out this link from a forum i post on sometimes, Post #5 tells of servage.net clients horror.
I can join to all about HostGator, but....until you'll have some K of visitors.... One day they shut down phpld script for LinkForever.net when traffic was bit bigger than normal. It was nothing special - about 3K(day) Also didn't noticed anything special in logs. Had to change big parts of original phpld code, optimize lot of MySQL queries... After 15 hours' battle with their support they finaly switch it back. Preety strange as I use other accounts with them and on some regualary get far more than 10K traffic/daily. No problem with it.
a moderator at phplinkdirectory suggested this site, so perhaps this is the best option if you go with phpld!!
this looks to be the info i was looking for... i already have an account with host gator so perhaps i'll just move my domain over to them and say to hell with godaddy. they're killing me.