By phishyman2 on
Ok, so I am on a shared hosting plan with GoDaddy and it sucks. My initial startup time on all my sites, whether I am using 6.x, 7.x, MySQL, or SQlite is anywhere between 12-35 seconds. None of them are big sites, and most average 5 visits a day. I have scoured the internet for reason for this problem, and a solution. Every hosting site I find has miles of complaints against them, all sounding the same as my experience with GoDaddy. Some say stick with shared, some say VPS. I have reached a point where I have no idea what to do.
I really need some advice here. I can't continue to try to grow a solo web design business/hobby using Drupal if the sites take so long to startup.
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shared hosting plan
I am also on a shared hosting plan with Bluehost.com. I am 100% satistsfied with Bluehost. Some weeks ago when I tried Drupal 7 rc1 on Bluehost and it was so slow. But, nowadays initial startup time is good @Bluehost.
My site http://indojp.com built with Drupal 7 and running very smoothly on Bluehost.com.
I was with bluehost for two
I was with bluehost for two years, but their customer service sucks when you want anything more than the basic support. On top of this, when my site started to get a little heavy, I was getting warnings where my site would be shut down for 5-10 minutes, telling me I should disable php scripts. Ya. Right. Good advice there.
I use MDD hosting. They are the fifth company I've been with since Bluehost, and the first that I've signed up for a second year. Their semi-dedicated hosting plan is good. They keep less users on one server, and have some pretty heavy hardware, so site response times are quite good. And their customer service is the best I've dealt with with any company anywhere. I fully recommend them.
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Just to add a couple of
Just to add a couple of comments on MDD hosting - they are the first company I have ever been with that offers specials to existing customers. Two examples:
1) In November last year, they suddenly offered a special on 'credits', which you can then use to pay for their services. Basically the equivalent of cash - the special was that they would give 2 for 1 credit for any credits bought. This was right when my contract was up, so I bought $250 worth of credits for $125. I then used these to pay my $250 yearly contract.
2) Last month they made an error on my account, and they offered me an upgrade to a VPS at 50% off - forever. So I switched to a VPS for only $280/year. Cheap! And fast.
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I'm having a similar results
I'm having a similar results with one Drupal site on a Dreamhost shared account. I also have hosted Drupal sites with Bluehost and InMotion without noticeable issues. I've looked around and found some posts suggesting that Dreamhost accounts have database servers running on different machines, which makes a very big difference since Drupal makes a lot of db calls when loading up.
Maybe GoDaddy does something similar - might be worth testing the waters of a different shared host before moving to VPS. Or maybe it's better to move on from shared altogether? I am also looking into possibly switching to VPS (maybe linode? or slicehost?) and am interested to see what other drupal users can share on their experiences..
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I just moved from GoDaddy to
I just moved from GoDaddy to HostGator after quite an investigation, and while they are more expensive than GD the difference in features (cPanel, localhost SQL - makes a huge difference!), performance (2-3x in my case) and support are dramatic. I wrote an article about my experience: http://networkingguide.toddzebert.com/blog/todd-zebert/migrating-drupal-...
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Are you still happy with hostgator after 2 months?
Todd - do you have any updates regarding your experience with hostgator now that you've been running drupal there for a few months. I'm still searching for a place with good shared hosting that can handle drupal.
I'm still pretty happy with
I'm still pretty happy with them, especially with speed and uptime and technical support. The php memory limit seems be hard so if you have complex site you'll run into out of memory conditions usually when doing Admin functions - I haven't seen a user action create one.
My concern with VPS is unless you get/pay-for a fully managed VPS (many of the cheap ones are unmanaged and somewhat unsupported) then you have to handle ALL of the *nix install, config, security, etc etc etc. Personally, I'm not an expert in all those areas and would rather focus on building sites.
The other issue I found is that while Shared hosting can certainly suffer at the hands of a bad neighbor, I've found many hosting cos (HG included) where the peak Shared performance can exceed the max VPS performance (in the entry-level VPS') as the later is limited by fixed share of CPUs. Of course, if you get a higher performance VPS than that isn't an issue but they aren't cheap.
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Update on HostGator. There
Update on HostGator. There shared webhosting plans max at 64MB aPHP memory and one of my sites won't barely Run Updates without getting an error.
I've called them twice and tried to escalate but they won't budge. The only option is to go to a VPS which would be fine except I want a managed one, and they start at $40/mon, which is a long way $8/mo for say 16-32MB more of memory!
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I went the VPS route. There's
I went the VPS route.
There's tons o' budget VPS providers out there-- I got two - (one for backup) for less than I was paying for re-selling on a shared host.
With a VPS you are guaranteed resources and can access your configuration files ie my.cnf to get your performance tuned for Drupal. That was my motivation.
I strongly encourage you to explore this option.