By slazenger on

I thought I should let people know that I didn't find this infobit before I installed Drupal and brought it up on Dreamhost recently. The Dreamhost techsupport folks told me that they are running a Wiki for their own services and their installation technote for Drupal was quite helpful in helping my install process go clean. (I had already downloaded Drupal and unzipped the tarball by the time I ran into it.)

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Drupal

Hope this helps someone.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.6.x

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sepeck commented

I love this line

should be used by those with knowledge of HTML, web applications and at least a vague notion of how Databases (such as MySQL) function (as usual you don't have to actually know PHP and SQL to make it function but a working knowledge of PHPMyAdmin, the mysql GUI application is helpful

Probably cuts down on support calls for them.

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Hory commented

At least in my case, Dreamhost was awfully slow regarding MySQL queries. Impossible to use my drupal site even if I was the only visitor. I recently closed the account and moved to Site5, and it's a lot better so far.

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laura s commented

...though I've been with Dreamhost since 1999 and, aside from poor Drupal performance, have had nothing but great service from them, including very fast html connections (nice for media downloads). Because they're so affordable, I've kept an account with them for media servers and other web apps.

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Geary commented

I have accounts on TextDrive and DreamHost, and if I set up identical Drupal sites on both, my page load times are 2-3 times faster on TextDrive. The difference is entirely in the MySQL queries. So I run the sites themselves on TextDrive and store large media files on DreamHost.

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kbahey commented

A somewhat related article regarding a client's experience with Dreamhost.
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csagum commented

Fast forward a few years now, its seems that Dreamhost servers are handling Drupal much better. They've also added Drupal in their list of "one click installations" to help end users with installing Drupal. Beware though that this is in their "basic mode" which won't allow you to have full access to all the files of Drupal.

I wrote a very simple step-by-step guide for installing Drupal on Dreamhost for those of you who might not want to read through all the extra information in the Dreamhost wiki. Hope it helps you guys.

http://idreamhost.net/install-host-drupal

ptoly’s picture

ptoly commented

I've had four Drupal sites, on separate shared hosting accounts, all have constant problems with memory errors and gateway timeouts.

Latest response (in a long series of dialogs) from Dreamhost tech support "Any and all applications installed by end users are custom applications. "

Meaning they don't support Drupal installs.

After 9 years with Dreamhost, I'm moving away from them.

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Patricia_W commented

Your installation instructions do not explain what URL to use when you start the install.php.

In my case I have an existing domain name that I want to use AFTER I configure Drupal on Dreamhost. I cannot get a clear description of how to set this up.

(I have already uploaded the Drupal code and created the MySQL database)

Patricia W