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Best VPS hosting providers for drupal?
mixersoft - May 5, 2007 - 04:59
After a bit of research, I've decided my photo site is better off with on a Virtual Private Server. Has anyone had a good experience with this? Please send your recommendations. TIA.
PowerVPS is a very good
PowerVPS is a very good company.
Just be sure to plan your resource usage to fit the plans.
As with any VPS, try not rely on burst RAM or swap disk speed, as these things are usually shared.
They have the new memory control from virtuozzo, which help kill processes that exceed the limits.
Be sure to tune your httpd.conf (maxclients, keepalivetimeout, etc) and my.cnf (table_cache, query cache, etc)
What do I tune for?
I'm still new to VPS hosting. What am I shooting for when I tune httpd.conf (maxclients, keepalivetimeout, etc) and my.cnf (table_cache, query cache, etc)?
You are shooting to the RAM
You are shooting to the RAM usage per page and per connection.
The parameters i mentioned are a few that usually need being changed from the default values.
httpd.conf is for apache and my.cnf is for mysql
Start here:
http://drupal.org/node/2601
Then search drupal.org and the web for server tuning and performance.
You may decide not to make changes but shouldn't skip reading the docs to be aware of how VPSs work.
In general, you would plan your traffic requirements and the limit might be lower than you'll want or expect.
My Personal Choice
My personal choice and the VPS I've used for over a year now is Linode. I can personally recommend them.
Maybe try Verio´s VPSv3 systems (Linux or FreeBSD)
Mixersoft,
My name is Luiz Eduardo Giampaoli, I own a small IT company called Neodigital. We are located in Porto Alegre / Brazil.
Well, I resell services from Verio USA (www.verio.com) since 1997 and I must say that their Virtual Server Systems (VPSv3) are awesome solutions. I was installing a new Drupal Portal on a VPS just now (5 th may 2007) when I saw your post.
I could let you test one of my VPS systems without any cost for 15 days (San Jose or Dulles Datacenter, you choose). No worries, no strings attached, no forms to fill. Of course you still have to accept and use the test account in compliance with Verio´s Acceptable Use Policy.
Since we live on different countries and you live in US, OF COURSE that the MOST EASIER and OBVIOUS choice to you is to buy your VPS directly from Verio. But NEVERTHLESS, I could setup a test system to you, and if you like it, recommend you as a new costumer. If you don’t like it... at least you tried one VPS system.
If you need more info, please contact me directly: luizeduardo@neodigital.com.br
Best Regards,
Luiz Eduardo Giampaoli
IT Director & Founder
Neodigital - Creating Ways On Demanda ®
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Porto Alegre | RS | Brasil
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I used to have a VPS with
I used to have a VPS with Steadfast Networks that I was quite pleased with, and their prices are pretty reasonable. The only reason I'm not still with them is that I no longer have a need for a VPS.
I've been using rimuhosting
I've been using rimuhosting and blackcat networks. Both of them have been good although we're settling on rimu now.
Vps hosting providers
Here's a comparison of good value vps hosting accounts
http://www.hostingdiary.com/2007/09/best-vps-hostin.html
Andrew
Drupal VPS or Dedicated
When shopping for a VPS or Dedicated server for my Drupal Site ..I'm always reminded to plan for the next 6 months of traffic.
I've noticed some popular VPS providers don't have dedicated servers.The hope for anyone on a VPS is the a dedicated will be needed.
How difficult is moving your Drupal Site to a different server? On a scale of 1-10?
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Drupal is very modular and easy to move from server to server.
truncate cache tables
truncate sessions table
export DB
copy files
change setting.php to reflect new DB connection
import DB
site should be live now.
Content is another issue. So long as the content is relative, or using relative urls you are fine. Any content that uses absolute urls will need to be changed to reflect new url.
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Thats pretty much what I
Thats pretty much what I have read, just wanted to get feedback/assurance from people who have actually made the move.
What about moving a site to a different server that uses a different timezone? Timezones are such an issue in Drupal with sites that use Date & time in multiple instances, at least in 5x.
I've yet to find a well documented answer regarding the best choice for setting your sites timezone ( timezone where your server is, timezone where you are, timezone where most people viewing your site will be etc. etc).
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I'm not sure I understand fully your time zone question.
The server time zone should be the timezone where the server is. The site timezone, should be set in administer -> date & time. This should be set as the date & time zone of the admin.
users can set their own time zone in their profile.
At this stage, all time zone become relative to the server time zone and the offset chosen by the user.
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I know you're an extremely
I know you're an extremely busy person .. but this is an example of what I mean by timezones being a problem for me, and many others. Heck, just do a search for " 1 day off error" :)
This is an example of timezone hell .. if you can fix this.. I'd be mighty impressed.
http://drupal.org/node/165759
Thanks for taking the time to answer my previous inquires.
Chad
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I am sure they are working on it as its been added to the issue query. As far as I can see this is most likely a bug in the date.moduel or a possible bug in the way the date module interacts with views using its views.inc file. Rather then a bug in timezones as handled by drupal core.
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Thanks MisunderStood. To
Thanks MisunderStood.
To get back on topic, I will report back on my VPS/Drupal research.