By nevets88 on

I noticed Earthlink hosting is not in this list: http://drupal.org/hosting

Has anyone hosted their Drupal 6 site on Earthlink? If so, how is Earthlink?

I trying to decide whether to keep a site that is currently hosted on Earthlink or move it to a more Drupal friendly host. The current site on Earthlink is configured for asp/Microsoft, so I can't install Drupal obviously.

Thanks in advance.

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nevets88 commented

Just to help anyone out there who has this question, Earthlink is okay, but could offer more.

I've only been using it for a couple of weeks and my experience with hosts include goDaddy, Bluehost and 1&1.

Using the very basic starter site. A little pricier than most. Telephone support spotty, but one or two of the support people were very helpful.
Control panel and help pages not nearly as comprehensive as say Bluehost. I really don't feel like I have control over the site as I would BH.
No free SSL - you have to buy GeoTrusts' at over $100/yr. Ftp connection drops alot. No outages yet. I've experienced outages with BH during the wee hours.

I'm using it because that is what my client is using. Version 6.6.

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nevets88 commented

Just wanted to add. The latest version of PHP supported by Earthlink is 5.0.5. It doesn't support 5.1 or 5.2.