By rodolphe on
Hi there,
I am planning to launch a new website running Drupal. What's the best, most affordable hosting service you would recommend? I am currently considering One.com but would like to hear your suggestions.
Cheers,
Rodolphe Verhaegen
Fontainebleau, France
Comments
I am using ONE.com and has
I am using ONE.com and has done so for many years. Very good place.
However, in order to make Drupal run, which I set up only a few days ago on one of my sites at One, You have to comment out to things in .htaccess (all possible htaccess files)
Like this
# Don't show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory.
# Options -Indexes
# Follow symbolic links in this directory.
# Options +FollowSymLinks
I also had to delete (havent got a solution yet) the .htaccess file in the /files directory in order to get linked files to work.
What that above exactly means for your Drupal setup I am not sure of yet, but it would be interesting to find out.
thanks a lot for this time saver!!
Hi Homdax,
Thanks a million for your solution! I had to move a drupalsite to one.com webhosting and after copying the files I had an internal server error; I knew it had something to do with the .htaccess file. But did not really know what was wrong. After commenting out your suggestions it worked!
Thanks a lot for sharing this!
***----___
Narkoba | Music Collaboration Front | Fhoomp | Good tast gone sour
Thanks
Thanks, I tried running drupal on one.com earlier, but I couldn't get it right. Following your suggestions, everything is running smoothly (curious when I'll be running into memory problems).
Cheers,
Toon
Halleluja!
Cheers mate! I had a huge problem with the Garland theme changing colours via the administration panel, and editing away the options in the .htaccess file you mentioned solved it! Thanks for the idea :D
php memory_limit
Hi
I've been using One.com for a while now. And the host was always perfect till I started a big drupal site.
When you run alot of modules at the same time, you will eventually get the famous memory_limit error (more than 16 mb is used for php, thanks to drupal). It is easily dealt with if you have access to either a php.ini (not @ one.com) file or .htaccess (possible at One.com) file.
But even with the access to a .htaccess file at One.com, you don't have access to the memory_limit rule. So you can't set your memory limit higher. If you ask the support of One.com to set the memory_limit higher they'll just refuse.
So one.com isn't a good host for drupal in my opinion..
I use Antagonist.nl now. It's a Dutch hosting service. But if you don't live in Holland, you'd better get an other one.
php memory limit
I hit the ceiling on this almost immediately. I agree, One.com is not built for Drupal.
I've used Site5 with great
I've used Site5 with great success... there was a deal on at the time for two years service for $120 US. Not sure what it is now, but the service has been excellent and easy to use so far... no problems with Drupal at all.
----------------------
Drupal by Wombats | Current Drupal project: http://www.ubercart.org
One of the most affordable
One of the most affordable hosting deals at the moment is the WebHostingPad coupon which takes $25 off, plus it comes with unlimited domain hosting.
Andrew
AN Hosting
I still recommend AN Hosting, I recently renewed my account for a second year.
--
John Forsythe
Drupal Modules - Find the module you need for your project!
Drupal on One.com
I uploaded Drupal6.2 folder to my One.com account and I agree with Homdax about just editing the .htaccess files, and also as it says in the install.txt to put full permissions on the file default.settings.php in folder "sites/default" and then it worked perfectly.
You can easely edit permission in any FTP client software like FileZilla that I used to upload my files to my One.com account.
Still, I also ran into memory limit issue (at least think that is my problem) when trying to enable Views-module for Drupal 6...so maybe One.com is not that good if you would like to build a larger Drupal site.
Agree that one.com is a good
Agree that one.com is a good choice for beginners, once you get to a large site, one.com should be in trouble, but the same situation is applied to most of the shared web hosting solution.
u may check imageleet.com a
u may check imageleet.com
a new company, Drupal ready and with helpful support.
To run a Drupal site on
To run a Drupal site on One.com, In starting you need to do some tweaks in .htaccess etc, and sites will run well.
At a later stage on good hits or on using good number of modules, u will start getting small memory size problems.
16M is not sufficient for a Drupal site while using popular contributed Drupal modules.
What tweaks
Hi There serverman
What tweaks exactly are you talking about?
I've tried all I read about changing the .htaccess file and setting.php.
But I still can't get Drupal started at one.com.
Could you perhaps make me a small listing of which steps to make?
Thanks in advance!
Drupal installation on one.com?
*** Problem SOLVED - one.com server was playing tricks on me! ***
Hi there!
I'm certainly new when it comes to Drupal, started working with it only 4 months ago.
At the moment I'm trying to create a forum for the school I'm working for.
I created a site/data base locally using Drupal 6.9 on a Xampp. Works fine once you get to know it, and thanks to the great help found in this and other fora.
Where's the catch? My school's IT-team advised me to buy a domain/web hosting space at one.com.
So I did...
Since 3 days I've been trying to install both drupal and my database at one.com, using Filezilla to upload and make .htacces visible.
I don't manage to get Drupal installed! Meaning: I don't even get the first installation page of Drupal when I go to my domain... And I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Here's what I did sofar, following instructions in this thread and others (drupal.be):
- I downloaded a clean copy of Drupal, unpacked it locally and uploaded all files to the domain's root using FTP
- I adapted the .htacces file (which strangely I can see in filezilla, but not at one.com's file management screen? - because one.com is Linux-based?) by uncommenting the options as follows:
# Don't show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory.
# Options -Indexes
# Follow symbolic links in this directory.
# Options +FollowSymLinks
- I inserted username, password and database name in the following line in settings.php (sites\default). Should I do the same in default.settings.php? Or only in default.settings.php?:
$db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename' ('localhost' is localhost at one.com?)
- do I have to adapt the line $db_prefix = ' ' ? Don't think so.
- tried to deactivate DNS for *.domain.be (where domain is our domain:), as this should help enabling mod.rewrite, but I reactivated it, since deactivating this blocks all communication for ftp.domain.be (of course:)
Nothing seems to Work. Or perhaps I'm just modding tot much? Who's willing to help me doing it all over with a small step-by-step instructions guide?
Further issues:
Once Drupal is running... Where do I copy my database to? And how? The one.com phpmyadmin screen hasn't been much of a help (https://dbadmin.one.com/).
Apparently it is not possible to run cron at one.com. Is it okay if I run it locally before uploading database?
What is the best way to make Drupal work at one.com:
- clean installation, then uploading database?
- or uploading all files, then run Drupal?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Bert
Problem solved
*** Problem SOLVED - one.com server was playing tricks on me! ***
I've had nothing but problems
I've had nothing but problems with One.com. Their 16Mb memory limit is actually 24Mb, they just don't tell you that. But it's still not enough once you get some heavy Views or simply try to save a node referencing a lot of other heavy nodes.
Clearing the cache is a major problem on the site I've got at One.com. Once I've done that I have to go to a non-existant page for all the internal stuff like menu router and caches to rebuild and still have enough memory left to actually finish. (Remember, the 404 page does not load any nodes or blocks by default, which is why I'm even able to get back into the site!) Going to the Modules page is rarely possible though.
Each time I want to change which modules are enabled I have to dump the database using phpMyAdmin on One.com, import it to my local dev environment, make the changes, dump the database and then import it back to One.com using FTP and the BigDump script.
One.com automatically makes your directories in the root act as subdomains, which might be convenient at times. Things like ftp and phpmyadmin are also on subdomains by default. To use mod_rewrite I was told by their support I had to disable all subdomains! I tried that because I couldn't get mod_rewrite to work at first, but when it did I re-enabled the subdomains and everything worked as expected. When I showed this to the support guy however, he (or she, they never reveal their name nor have any contact information available at all) they simply refused to accept it was working.
Yesterday I asked my client if it was ok to change to another service, and that's what I'll be spending today doing.
That's pretty horrible! Find
That's pretty horrible! Find a host that allows you to have your own php.ini and the memory limit should go away as you're able to create your own. Ask the host if they have suphp, as that is an indication that they allow custom php.ini.
--
See the best drupal hosting providers on the Internet.
One.com custom php.ini
I've been using One.com for a lot of minor websites for quite some time, and ran into the memory_limit when I was starting to play around with Drupal now. I just created a php.ini at my root at a One.com hosted site with memory_limit = 48M, through it to the server and it seems to be all right now.
Atleast my Drupal is back up and running. Hope they don't mind? ;)
Hope this helps!
*** I TAKE IT BACK! It occurs again as I try to access to modules menu now, but it fixed the main page? ***
The main page, and others,
The main page, and others, have probably been cached so Drupal doesn't need as much memory to show them.
The Modules page is a real pain on memory restricted servers because it does all kinds of checks and rebuilds.
One com is cheap, what do you expect...?
I would like to point out that one com is a cheap host. You can not expect to have your own php.ini or other stuff out of the box. It is cheap because of little or no customization towards the user. So keep that in mind please. You can not compare several hosts straight off if one demand 50$ a month and the other 5$.
No I do not work for One...fyi ;-)
Just checked out...
As I am doing some research after reading all your posts I can clearly confirm one.com has raised again the memory limit to 32MB. Probably this has had something to do with the many questions they where receiving concerning Drupal. I've asked the local support guy (girl, pc or whatever) if their is a possibility to upgrade this.
was their (standard) answer.
If I get an answer i will post it here.
More on One.Com
More on One.Com and its limitations here:
One.Com Shoots Itself in the Drupals
parasites
stay well away from these parasites, they recently passed my details on to debt collection agency because they renewed my domain without my permission. question is do you really want to give parasites like this your money.