By miahjenn on

I have posted in another thread about looking for a hosting provider, I am currently with 1and1 and not happy because of how Drupal performs with it.

I have been turned on to Mosso and am very impressed and have a great first impression as they tell me it will blow the doors off other hosting companies using Rackspaces cloud hosting.

It is $100 a month however, any feedback from Mosso by anyone?

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silverwing commented

going to point you to http://status.mosso.com/ that listed their outages, but they seem to have gotten rid of everything but the current month. There was post after post of mysql outages going way back.

I'd be cautious.

~silverwing - never hosted with them

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brianV commented

I've been using Mosso for several months now, and been quite happy.

No downtime yet for any of my sites, and always pretty snappy. Being cloud-based, it is 10-15ms per request slower than traditional setups, but heavy traffic / server load don't affect it at all. It's very consistent speedwise, no matter what I've thrown at it.

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Kaumil commented

How do you gather that because it's cloud-based that it's 10-15ms slower? Just curious!

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kursat commented

hi
if you want to use an enhanced shared environment never try any other company, mosso is one of the best.
But they have some limitations too,
for instance they only allow 500 concurrent database connections per user per mysql database.
If you have a site bigger than this amount of connection, do not use them, use slicehost (also another rackspace company as mosso).
If you have some time, mosso is going to open a new service for dedicated servers, give a try for that service.
kind regards.

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anthonylv commented

There's an older thread covering the same topic at http://drupal.org/node/133786

You might want to check the comments over there.

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m.e. commented

We tried Mosso but not having shell access with a bunch of Drupal sites was a real pain. We ended up going to Bluehost. So far so good.

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anthonylv commented

We were initially quite frustrated by the lack of shell access but quickly got over it. The only real annoyance we have now is FTP-ing the untarred installation via a slow connection. One work-around for this is to upload the tarball and set up a 'Scheduled Task' to extract it to the correct location. Nevertheless, installation is fine even with slow broadband connections.

Out of curiosity, what is it about not having shell access causes problems for you?

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m.e. commented

Having shell access allows us to upload and untar modules and themes, fix permissions issues, etc. much more quickly. Also, moving entire directories and/or sites without shell access is a real pain. Yes, there are workarounds ... but once you've had shell access, clomping through a control panel to do these things seems cumbersome and time-consuming.

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brianV commented

Shell access is a bit of an annoyance, although I can live without it. The customer service reps I've spoken to have indicated that shell access is supposed come come yet in Q1 2009, although we are rapidly running out of time...

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benny_tan commented

This is something that is very interesting, but $100 a month is very expensive for the little guy! I think their main target is bigger people!

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kursat commented

It is not 100$ per site, for unlimited sites. But you have resource limitations on cpu, ram and bw.
By the way you can find a cheaper dedicated server with this money, but you have to manage it, backup etc...