We are considering Mosso as a hosting service for several Drupal sites. Does anyone here have experience with Drupal hosting on Mosso? How optimized is their system for Drupal? Any bandwidth or cpu resource issues?
Yep. They're still working through kinks, but I use them currently for sites. They have an interesting platform, but it doesn't quite do what it should .....eliminate downtime. In my opinion, the only downtime a properly built cloud system should experience is a router going out. So far, I have not seen this, and see various areas of their cloud affected on an almost-daily basis.
However, I'm referring to uptime stats that an enterprise website would need. If you're running blogs, small client sites, etc...Mosso is perfect. They offer a lot for the price. In fact, you asked about CPU. They budget accounts based on CPU allocation. You get the equivalent to a dedicated server in CPU processes. If you exceed that, you pay an incremental cost (minimal).
You can see all of this from your control panel in an almost real-time status. Being at Rackspace, I can say they have some of the best bandwidth I have ever seen. Pages are speedy, and their DNS always ranks A+ with DNSstuff.com
I've been monitoring a few Drupal sites at mon.itor.us and the Mosso sites seem a bit slow compared to others like Site5, HOWEVER, when actually visiting the Mosso sites, they always come up in a reasonable length of time.
The Site5 installations are all over the place. Speedy one minute and slow as molasses the next. So far, I like the stability of Mosso!
How much downtime have you experienced? I've heard reports that Mosso's mysql servers have been down a lot, but that may be old news.
Yep. They're still working
Yep. They're still working through kinks, but I use them currently for sites. They have an interesting platform, but it doesn't quite do what it should .....eliminate downtime. In my opinion, the only downtime a properly built cloud system should experience is a router going out. So far, I have not seen this, and see various areas of their cloud affected on an almost-daily basis.
However, I'm referring to uptime stats that an enterprise website would need. If you're running blogs, small client sites, etc...Mosso is perfect. They offer a lot for the price. In fact, you asked about CPU. They budget accounts based on CPU allocation. You get the equivalent to a dedicated server in CPU processes. If you exceed that, you pay an incremental cost (minimal).
You can see all of this from your control panel in an almost real-time status. Being at Rackspace, I can say they have some of the best bandwidth I have ever seen. Pages are speedy, and their DNS always ranks A+ with DNSstuff.com
Hope this helps!
It does!
Thank you for the feedback.
I've been monitoring a few Drupal sites at mon.itor.us and the Mosso sites seem a bit slow compared to others like Site5, HOWEVER, when actually visiting the Mosso sites, they always come up in a reasonable length of time.
The Site5 installations are all over the place. Speedy one minute and slow as molasses the next. So far, I like the stability of Mosso!
How much downtime have you experienced? I've heard reports that Mosso's mysql servers have been down a lot, but that may be old news.