Best place to host a drupal site?

By ms1 on 13 Feb 2007 at 19:52 UTC

Please suggest me the best place to host a drupal site. I contacted Godaday.com, but they say they are not apt for it.

Thanks n Regards

Comments

SustainableWebsites (SW)

Christefano-oldaccount commented 19 February 2008 at 02:16

edited 18-Feb-2008: I no longer recommend SustainableWebsites.

I'm currently happy with

grendzy commented 13 February 2007 at 22:19

I'm currently happy with Bluehost. The features that I really like were ssh access (which also enables you to use rsync), and their price for dedicated SSL was cheap ($30/year for the static IP, and you can supply your own cert). So far the only shortcoming I have found is subdomains have to be inside your main DocmentRoot, but this is only a minor annoyance.

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30 $ is fine..........but

ms1 commented 15 February 2007 at 19:33

I hope if it is so cheap then it also reliable .....I mean no crashes and data losses.

I was a bit apprehensive getting it so cheap.

And what about online support?

Thanks n Regards

Sorry if that wasn't

grendzy commented 16 February 2007 at 16:25

Sorry if that wasn't clear... the hosting is about $95 / year, which is still pretty cheap. The $30 is the additional fee for a dedicated IP, which is a prerequisite to SSL. I've only been a customer for about 4 months, but the stability has been fine. Their filesystem provides automated snapshots, so if you delete something by mistake (for example) you can recover it yourself.

Their support has been OK. They also have a forum.

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Thanks grendzy

ms1 commented 19 February 2007 at 10:38

Thank you grendzy.

Regards

Drupal Web Hosting

nlink commented 7 June 2007 at 13:21

I suggest that you also take a look at Drupal Website Hosting, they provide a dedicated server hosting for Drupal. You can check out the details I believe at $5.95 per month, its affordable.

I will be updating customer feedbacks on my blog Drupal Vs Joomla and I will appreciated if any of the users can provide their feedbacks.

Thanks and good luck.

DreamHost

t1s commented 12 June 2007 at 17:07

www.dreamhost.com is probably one of the best hosting companies in my opinion. Setting up the mysql was a cinch and they have very reliable services.

Anyone here using micfo

andrewjj commented 17 June 2007 at 04:10

Anyone here using micfo manged vps? Sounds like a good deal.

Andrew
www.hostingdiary.com

I'll pass on DreamHost

Christefano-oldaccount commented 18 July 2007 at 09:52

t1s, it bears worth mentioning that DreamHost had a major security breach a few days before your post. Hopefully, you weren't one of their affected customers.

http://www.lullabot.com/blog/dreamhost_alternatives_drupal_developers

Dreamhost sucks

liquidcms commented 19 July 2007 at 18:12

I have been with DH since last Nov and the features they provide are great: shell access, svn, ffmpeg (if you want to convert videos on your site). I couldn't find another SHARED hoster that could offer me everything i needed...

BUT.... OMG.. reliability and performance are disastrous... they are down at least once a week .. either mail or web doesnt work. Page loads take as long as a minute. Most of the issues stem from very overloaded servers, poor apache-mysql architecture, and general confusion on what they are doing.

Drupal will never work very well on a shared host solution. As many as 100 mysql queries per page and most shared hosters dont have a great architecture for mysql/apache server interaction.

Bottom line is that if you dont care about performance, shared is fine, if you dont care about reliability, DH has a good lineup of features - if you are running a commercial Drupal site - stick with something more controlled like VPS or dedicated server. I have switched one of my larger commercial Drupal sites to a VPS and the performance improvement was amazing. Hopefully i will eventually migrate everything off DH.

Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Management Solution Experts

Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Solution Experts

agreed

JohnForsythe commented 22 July 2007 at 04:55

I left Dreamhost for AN Hosting. I think these numbers speak for themselves

me@anhosting# uptime
23:52:35 up 204 days, 9:36, 1 user, load average: 1.17, 1.70, 1.59

Over 200 days without a server reboot.. best I've ever seen from a shared host. If you want more info, check out the AN hosting review I wrote.

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uptime is not everything

melon commented 22 July 2007 at 22:12

Just for the record, please note that server uptime is not a measure for reliability. I don't know any OS used for hosting (Linux, BSDs, Windows, etc) that didn't suffer from any serious security updates affecting kernels over a 200 day period. Installing security updates affecting the kernel needs to reboot the server. So in your case it's rather a disadvantage than the opposite IMO.

I disagree

JohnForsythe commented 23 July 2007 at 06:57

There are many ways to deal with security issues without patching the kernel, and not all kernel patches are relevant. Drupal.org itself has had recent uptimes of 200 days, and did not suffer any significant security breaches.

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It's not that simple

melon commented 23 July 2007 at 08:54

Actually I'm a sysadmin for a couple of servers, but those are mostly FreeBSDs which had at least one security issue that needed to recompile the kernel. I don't have much experience with Linux but I have taken into account all those Windows boxes I have to maintain which are needed to reboot after many security updates.

I agree on that there are several ways to deal with security issues but I'm still not convinced that uptime is the only true measure of reliability. No offense but I prefer well maintained systems over uptime-fighter mentality ;)

I have yet to have a problem

t1s commented 10 March 2008 at 14:50

I have yet to have a problem with dreamhost over the past year now.
I'm not paying for it, so that may be why i like them so much ;)

DreamHost is slow as bunk

aerodog commented 19 March 2008 at 19:17

Hey there...Dreamhost's mysql servers are separate from their regular servers, and so this makes Dreamhost reeally...really.........

slow...

All of your mysql accesses are going to take for frickin' ever man...frickin ever

Performance Tuning

robertlam commented 13 April 2008 at 16:19

I am currently using godaddy. As I have more contents (nodes) it gets slow when cron is not run and very slow when creating new contents, it takes 10secs or more and sometimes timeout. Devel module shows "UPDATE cache_menu SET data = 'a:4:{s:10:\"path" is taking a lot of times and "UNLOCK TABLES".

Chapter 22 Optimizing Drupal on Pro Drupal Development says drupal can be very fast. My question to people who use dreamhost or site5 or godaddy is have you guys tried all the optimizing tricks and if yes how much quicker can optimizing help and to what point do you need a quicker host?

My question is aim to find out how much optimizing I should do before giving up godaddy.

Thanks

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Every Drupal site is

themegarden.org commented 15 July 2007 at 21:24

Every Drupal site is specific. It is best to estimate your needs and then to select appropriate hosting. Read more about Drupal Hosting at themegarden.org.

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