By Holgerson on

Hi!

I am currently looking for a host for Drupal websites in Brasil and I ran into insite.com.br.

They are offering Drupal 6.6 via "Fantastico", so installing Drupal should be no problem. However, if Drupal 6.6 obviously runs on the server, can I assume that an upgrade to (or completely new installation of) Drupal 6.8 should be no problem? Or could I run into trouble?

Any experiences? Or do you know any good hosters for Drupal in Brazil? Locaweb seems to be a pain in the ass for Drupal. You need to changes to the servers configuration via .htaccess.

Regards,
Holgerson

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

Not sure if Fantastico has changed lately, but I recall that they had removed drupal's update.php file, making it impossible to update core or any additional modules.

If this is still the case, you will need either to follow their own updating methods or replace the Fantastico installation with a Drupal 6.8 package and update the database.

Holgerson’s picture

Holgerson commented

Thanks for your reply. So my assumption was wrong. ;-)

However, I would prefer to install the newest version of Drupal from scratch anyway.

Am I at least right, that when Fantastico is able to install 6.6 I will be able to install 6.8 on this server? Or are there some requirements in 6.8 that are different from 6.6 and I can not be sure just because it is possible to install 6.6?

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

All Drupal 6.x releases have essentially the same requirements. No new or changed features, only bug fixes and security updates. Installing D-6.8 should be no problem.

However, check also http://drupal.org/requirements
In particular, check if your php memory_limit is 16M or higher (see http://drupal.org/node/207036), just in case Fantastico had already done that for itself.