by john Simpson.
I'm curious. If you are installing Moodle with a webhost, why are you installing 2.6 series rather than the latest 2.7.1 . Reason being you will have more time to use Moodle without being under pressure to upgrade sooner than need be, not very nice once you have built up a lot of data and you have enrolled students to take care of . Reading this forum and it's instructions, it appears more complicated to upgrade than it is to do a fresh install.
Also I have learnt that some decent webhosts are very helpful if you do have a problem installing Moodle 2.7.1
I've explained this more on this post: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=264105