I'm new to this, so maybe I'm just dumb, but, everything works great except uploading music. It takes a while for the upload process, then I am taken to an error page that reads:

500 - Internal server error.
There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.

Do I need to switch to Linux hosting and not Windows Shared Hosting, using godaddy.com and mysql database?

[url]http://community.hippienations.com[/url] is the url

Well a linux server is better with the PHP functions of the community software you are using. In my opinion windows servers are only good for gaming, the windows server 2003 and 2008 are very resource killers as is windows 7 and all windows products. There are very good free servers that run linux that are very capable of handling a community website, but paid servers are better because your space and databases are not limited...

Are you able to upload photos? If not, you need to make the folder "userfiles" (and all sub-folders under it) writable.

Thanks. I use Godaddy, and I can switch between Linux and windows servers through them. it's the same price. Guess I'll call them.

Yes, I have a few members now and they can upload pics. They have even uploaded music. I can't upload any of my music yet though. My smallest song is 7.7mb, something is not set right, either, speed or mb uploads. gotta figure it out :)

Many server has a maximum file limit of 2M. You need to increase it by changing the php.ini

If your on a shared server, in the public_html section add theis to the .htaccess file. Most shared server hosts will not change this for disk purposes for the whole server but you can control it within your website

php_value upload_max_filesize 10M