I am currently using Godaddy shared hosting... I am having nothing but problems. I am fairly new to Drupal developing but I love it and plan on doing a lot more of it. I currently have 4 sites (complete or mostly complete) that I will be migrating and have a few more lined up that I need to begin developing. A couple are eCommerce sites utilizing Ubercart. I plan on trying to move in the direction of eCommerce development more and more. I am looking for VPS hosting so I will have more control over my develpment environment (DRUSH, GIT, etc.). Please advise what you all are using. I would love to use Acquia, but at this point I just cannot afford it. Thanks for any and all help! A couple of my sites are www.bhfabinc.com and www.badhabitinc.com (work in progress).
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I strongly suggest trying a
I strongly suggest trying a Drupal specialist host such as civihosting.com, hotdrupal.com, omega8.cc etc.
I have used cheap VPSs, they can be very unpredictable, especially if you use OpenVZ /Vizzavi (most of them do, look for Xen virtualisation). Many Drupal people use Linode for VPSs. We know it is about as expensive as unmanaged VPS gets, people are not going to Linode because they are too unresourceful to know that you can get a beefy dedicated server in Germany for the same price! Go figure.... But even though experience shows it is worth paying for the like of Linode, when a server is unmanaged there is a lot of work for you. So-called managed VPS / dedicated server from cheaper companies can have worse support than Linode unmanaged, so you still do a lot of custom work, even on 'managed', to get the server working well for Drupal unless you are paying very high rates. Incidentally some of those Drupal hosts I mentioned also offer VPSs set up for Drupal, which can save you some time.
Since you ask, I use a 1.5GB Linode (1.5GB is tight, by the way), with Debian, Varnish, Virtualmin GPL, mostly running php as mod_php, currently without APC or Memcache. Php 5.3, Myaql 5.5. Generally I do not do client hosting (though I may help them with their own hosting), though I have a couple of client sites on that server. Drush is a must of course, running a Drupal site without it would be very hard work. Running small sites with little custom code, I regard using git for my site's codebase as overkill Though clearly version control is essential for larger projects.
If I were building a new eCommerce site it would be Drupal Commerce. I sometimes see new Ubercart sites, my own view is that someone who sells that to a client is cutting corners to save costs, but doing the client a disservice partly because of its uncertain future.
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Thanks for the info...
Thank you for the information. I am very new to Drupal. I only started using it a couple of months ago, but I LOVE it. I used Ubercart because I got the impression that it was the best. I don't really like it all that much and I think I may need to look into Drupal Commerce. My eCommerce site is still a work in progress, so I can change carts without too much reworking (especially if Drupal Commerce is better). I will check out the hosts specializing in Drupal. If money were not an issue, I would go with a higher end host, but I am just starting out and have to pinch pennies wherever I can... Thanks again!!!
i've had good service with WiredTree
have several drupal installs on a WiredTree.com vps. good cpu allowance and cpanel and root.