Your Hosting Does Matter

[mic510]

I found out that it matters where you use your hosting for your blogs if you plan on using the WP Installer because I tried to use Yahoo Hosting and they do not use "localhost" as the database host name. Instead, Yahoo uses "mysql" as its database host name and if a third-party script like WP Installer is used, it must change the host name over to "mysql" before it will work with Yahoo Hosting.

So the lesson is to double check with your hosting company that they support "localhost" as the name of the database host before you use the WP Installer with them.

Another example is Netfirms Web Hosting. They use "mysqlhost" as their databse host name. WP Installer will not work with them either.

Unless your Web Host uses its database hostname as "localhost", the WP Installer will not work.

This post should probably be a sticky.