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.
They seem rock solid etc, but there is one drawback: no SSH, meaning you cannot install multi-sites :-(
I've just phoned with an account manager at Mosso, and they confirmed they do know about the business they are losing in the Drupal community by not providing SSH for cloud servers... the guy said SSH is priority #1 for them, but it is technically challenging due to their system architecture, and he could not give me any definite date.
The other similar option is MediaTemple, but they do switch you off if your site gets a little more popular. Besides, at times they are more offline than online. (I moved away from them with deep disappointment.)
So I am staying on a dedicated box, hoping Mosso gets their act together and allows SSH very soon... or perhaps somebody even better will come along in the meantime.
Just to let you know, it IS possible to use the multi-site at Mosso.. You have to put the databases on the first domain, and set up aliases and the proper sites directories for configurations of the different domains.. Not ideal but it works.
I am currently a very new user of mosso, they have very good capability of cpu and bw usage. If you have a startup site that has a potential use them. At the first day i was very happy to see that my site could handle 10K+ uniques w/o any errors. I was previously using two godaddy virtual dedicated and i am very happy to use mosso. They have one drawback that they have a limit on concurrent connections to database. If 500 concurrent database connection is ok for you never use any other company.
Their smtp limit is also satisfactory for me.
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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.
No SSH as yet at Mosso
They seem rock solid etc, but there is one drawback: no SSH, meaning you cannot install multi-sites :-(
I've just phoned with an account manager at Mosso, and they confirmed they do know about the business they are losing in the Drupal community by not providing SSH for cloud servers... the guy said SSH is priority #1 for them, but it is technically challenging due to their system architecture, and he could not give me any definite date.
The other similar option is MediaTemple, but they do switch you off if your site gets a little more popular. Besides, at times they are more offline than online. (I moved away from them with deep disappointment.)
So I am staying on a dedicated box, hoping Mosso gets their act together and allows SSH very soon... or perhaps somebody even better will come along in the meantime.
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Multi-site at Mosso
Just to let you know, it IS possible to use the multi-site at Mosso.. You have to put the databases on the first domain, and set up aliases and the proper sites directories for configurations of the different domains.. Not ideal but it works.
I am currently a very new
I am currently a very new user of mosso, they have very good capability of cpu and bw usage. If you have a startup site that has a potential use them. At the first day i was very happy to see that my site could handle 10K+ uniques w/o any errors. I was previously using two godaddy virtual dedicated and i am very happy to use mosso. They have one drawback that they have a limit on concurrent connections to database. If 500 concurrent database connection is ok for you never use any other company.
Their smtp limit is also satisfactory for me.
Kursat, any additional
Kursat, any additional comments after a month? I'm thinking of transferring to them, but I'm not sure yet.
Thanks