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By sparkguitar05 on
I have six sites currently hosted by GoDaddy. Once I started using Drupal, I noticed that my sites load MUCH more slowly than they did when I just used static HTML pages. My hosting expires in July, and I want to move my sites over to a new host. I originally had Dreamhost in mind, but after doing further research I am leaning towards ANHosting. I want to know what the Drupal Community thinks about ANHosting.
Is ANHosting a good Drupal host? Please, can someone OTHER than John Forsythe give me a review. Thanks!
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All shared hosting situations can essentially cause slow down. Only a VPS or Dedicated solution can grant you some sort of guarantee with resources.
With shared hosting you are as dependant on your neighbors as you are with your own scripts. Being dependant on neighbors can cause all kinds of headaches that you can't control.
The above being said, if you are serious about your site, get a VPS.
Hosting questions ...
I have similar questions - what/who are the better shared Drupal hosting environments out there? And what do people recommend as far as VPS and dedicated server environments for Drupal? Also, environments that will not require a lot of server set up/maintenance on my part as developer. I'd like a more out of the box solution where I can run Drupal in multi-site config.
Suggestions?
ANHosting has been ok for me
my personal site is at http://geoffhankerson.com on AN Hosting and it has been ok. Just about every other host I have used has been awful so ok is high praise in my book.
I'm am not on their affiliate program. I have had a small amount of down time - but it has been small. Sometimes its a slow too but has generally been ok and I have not had to call for support often which is good because support from these companies is normally worthless
I have been with Anhosting
I have been with Anhosting for two years now, and I hate them. The techs are rude, slow, and unhelpful. They have suspend my account on multiple occasions without warning and without trying to resolve the issue with me. One time they moved me to a different server and changed the mySQL server location without notifying me, and all my scripts broke. Their service is slow and occasionally unreliable. However from what I have read, this is about par for the course with almost any shared webhost that costs less than $10 a month. But I'm personally done with Anhosting.
Would you recommend staying
Would you recommend staying with GoDaddy? I have been with them for almost a year and I have had no problems with them other than slowdowns. My websites have never gone down, they are just slow as hell. I can't afford to pay more than $10 a month for a host.
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hosting is generally a get what you pay for industry.
My suggestion is stay where you are if you aren't willing to upgrade. Value hosts are value hosts for a reason and it's pretty safe to say that shared hosting hasn't caught up to sites that are dynamic and not static HTML. That said the more users on your server that are dynamic and get busy the slower the entire server becomes.
Anhosting is OK for me so far.
I am hosting my first Drupal site www.stride4.net with anhosting.
I signed up having read John Forsythes post and searching for any bad press on anhosting.
It's a Drupal6 site and its very new so I have not started promoting it. So traffic is very low at the moment (March 4th 2008)
I have found the support friendly and prompt but not very clued up on Drupal multisites. I have not needed to ask them any other questions. Here is link to a post I made to their support forums on the Drupal multisite question.
http://forum3.midphasetalk.com/showthread.php?p=35869#post35869. (midphase is a sister/parent company of anhosting)
I also made a support request using their ticket system but got a similar level of support. They were very happy to set up shell access and offer guidance on this but (perhaps unsurprisingly) they knew less about the details of Drupal.
David Field
AN Hosting was okay in the
AN Hosting was okay in the first few months when I got them. However, I have been experience frequent down times lately. These last for around 5 to 20 minutes.
If the down times are okay with you, I'd say go for it. They do offer nice hosting packages. :)
ANhosting is a pretty good
ANhosting is a pretty good hosting solution for Drupal, agilelight.com is hosted there, and you can give it a test.
But those shared web hosting is only good for a drupal site with less than 500 visitors/day, if you get more than it, you should consider VPS solution.
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