My experience with Webfusion.co.uk

Hi there,

I am in the process of setting up Drupal 6.2 on the Webfusion service (www.webfusion.co.uk), and I noticed that no-one had mentioned them here. So here's what I've found so far.

You will need Webfusion's Shared Hosting "Fusion Professional" service. This is the minimum package that gives MySQL service.

Here is the installation process that I followed:

1. Activate MySQL database by using Webfusions's Myserverworld.net page. This generates a new MySQL database. Note down the database name, the user name and password - you'll need this.
   
2. Upload the Drupal directories using the FTP service, put it in the public_html folder.
   
3. Make the permissions change to the default/sites folder (see install documentation)
   
4. Fire up your browser to the website, which will start the Drupal configuration process. (see install documentation)
   
5. The first step then is connecting to the database. Enter the details noted from step 1, and then click Advanced to reveal the extra fields for server name. Replace "localhost" with enter "mysql01" (as per Webfusion's support pages).
   
6. Follow the rest of the process as per the install page & install documentation.
   
7. The installation script sets up the database, and confirms that all required modules are present (except URLREWRITE, I'm looking into this).

And now we have a working Drupal installation.

I will provide an update on any issues and performance over the next few weeks.

Cheers,

3nigma