Fast shared hosting?

Posted by Hory on January 3, 2008 at 12:02pm

Hey,
Can anyone recommend some shared hosting that is also fast? I'm not talking about bandwidth, but whatever aspects are involved in the course of processing AJAX calls. Not only is Drupal a demanding CMS, but my project will particularly require many AJAX calls.
It seems that nowadays, shared hosting companies are cheap and offer literally hundreds of gigabytes of hosting. But I have no way to tell how fast they are.

Please don't recommend Dreamhost. In my experience, it has been incredibly slow (15-20 seconds to load a page) even for vanilla Drupal installations (particularly MySQL query processing).

Thanks.

Comments

Try this...

Posted by Sverre on January 3, 2008 at 2:31pm

See http://drupal.org/node/134085 for comments on Servage.
You can try out speed and responsiveness on our Scout Website (link below) but I'm afraid I haven't got anything specifically AJAX set up at the moment.
Regards,
Sverre :-)
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Sverre Sverresonn
Group Scout Leader
21st Medway Scouts, Kent, UK
http://www.21stmedway.org.uk/

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Sverre Sverresonn
Group Scout Leader
21st Medway Scouts, Kent, UK
http://www.21stmedway.org.uk/

Medway Towns District Scouts
http://www.medwaytowns.org.uk/

Shared Hosting Free Test

Posted by DrupalValueHosting on January 3, 2008 at 4:16pm

hi hory,

Do you have the application ready?
If your drupal site is ready, you can do a free trial run on DrupalValueHosting.com server... And make the decision...

Btw, here is an independent benchmark for DVH shared hosting: http://drupal.org/node/157762#comment-673242

Steve
steve@drupalvaluehosting.com

Thank you for your offer,

Posted by Hory on January 3, 2008 at 5:30pm

Thank you for your offer, but unfortunately it is not ready. I've got an idea regarding benchmarking, tho. Do you think you could make a simple benchmarking script that users could run on their currents hosts, and compare it with the results from your server?

Check us out

Posted by HotDrupal.com on January 3, 2008 at 6:23pm

Check out our website.

My only advice to you as you are looking around is to be wary of any company who has no address/no telephone/no information listed on their website, and only accepts PayPal as their method of payment.

Steve
http://www.hotdrupal.com

Re: Cheap Shared Hosting

Posted by MWLimburg on March 8, 2008 at 11:11pm

I've been with DVH for a bit now, and I've found their product and service to be excellent. They're still quite new, but so far, the news from actually using the product is great. Has [b]all[/b] the things I need and a bucket of stuff I don't (yet).

Worth checking out.

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Mark Limburg -//- Weaving the Web since 1492

Mark Limburg -//- Weaving the Web since 1492

trouble with shared hosting

Posted by 13mhz on March 26, 2008 at 11:47am

Hi everyone!
recently i have installed drupal 6.1 on a shared hosting site here.
You can see an error message:
"Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate xxxxxx bytes) in /home/users/kapa/public_html/drupal/includes/database.mysql-common.inc on line xxx"
The error message means that drupal tries to use more memory that is allowed, which may be result of heavy query traffic.
All useful informations about config of my shared host are here.
In my installation i have included many modules, i had turned on throttle and enabled mysql cache. Then i installed few useful tools.
Everything was just perfect.
I did some minor config changes like engine of pdf module and after refresh there was only error message.
so:
1. Avoid shared hostings for drupal - they bearly tell you what are the real limitations BEFORE you buy a site and install drupal.
2. Can anyone help me in my situation?
how can i disable some modules when the index page does not load?

This normally is a quick

Posted by ciperl on March 27, 2008 at 12:30am

This normally is a quick fix...

You just need to add a line to your .htaccess file.

php_value memory_limit 64M

The 64M number can be adjusted as you optimize your site.

thanks a lot for a tip!

Posted by 13mhz on March 28, 2008 at 9:30am

in my situation, there is a setting of 32M max - limitation of my hosting.
as you can see, now everything works fine.
so, i modified .htaccess file like this:
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# PHP 5, Apache 1 and 2.
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
php_value register_globals 0
php_value session.auto_start 0
php_value mbstring.http_input pass
php_value mbstring.http_output pass
php_value mbstring.encoding_translation 0

php_value mmcache.enable 0
php_value mmcache.optimizer 0
php_value memory_limit 32M
php_value max_execution_time 30
</IfModule>

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