What is the best place to host Drupal?

for Drupal I think

Go Daddy web hosting and linux server

I've had good luck with Hostgator (my affiliate link) for shared web hosting on multiple Drupal 5 & Drupal 6 installations. Their prices are competitive and tech support has been damn good.

The main problem that I have with Hostgator is that they do not support MySQL InnoDB tables on anything except dedicated servers. This is a problem for me because CiviCRM requires InnoDB and dedicated servers are too expensive for some of my clients. If you do not require InnoDB, Hostgator is a good choice.

Very few hosts offer Drupal-specific support. It's too expensive to hire people who are actually qualified. For example, a Drupal support account with Acquia costs $2500/year! And that doesn't even include hosting!

The best place to get support is Drupal.org, in the forums. Or in #Drupal-support on IRC.

Anyway, the best place to host Drupal, in my opinion, is AN Hosting. I've got a review up on my website if you're interested.

For Drupal hosting, There are many good hostings, such as Hostmonster, ANHosting, midPhase, etc. You can look at Best Drupal Hosting to get more about them.

I've been using Tigersites the last few months and so far, so awesome!

Hi There,

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Hi,

I have been using SiteGround Web hosting for the past 1 year and i find it very reliable. Although comparing with other plans like godaddy i find it bit expensive, but data transition is much smoother in Site Ground then Godaddy.

Thanks
Varun Mathur

Hi, thanks for all the great comments on this thread and elsewhere about this issue.

I'm taking in some of the comments made recently about the PHP memory issue, and would like to rehearse here that issue with respect to Bluehost. I'm thinking of going with them but please feel free to advise otherwise if you think I should go another direction.

If you've used them, and have a similar usage profile as I do, please help me out by reporting out what you're finding.

The 3.95 deal and the 2.50 (per month) option to have a dedicated IP seems like the best I'm going to find at my level. What is my level? Let me tell you a little bit about what I'm trying to do.

I've been toying around with Drupal since 4x and am about to upgrade to 6, launching a site complex reflecting some of the advances I've made in my skill level, mostly involding css, themes, etc. -- I'm planning a class website and will probably have 100-200 students on it eventually, perhaps as many as 400. But this doesn't mean concurrently. The max there might be 20 or so, and a Bluehost rep told me in chat that there is a limit of 20 -- so I can imagine that having a students working lab all in their drupal accounts would probably test that capacity, even if most of the kids will be writing not performing actions -- at least not all simultaneously. Now, if "simultaneously" is not REALLY simultaneous but means something like within a one-minute, 5-minute, or 10-minute span, etc., then I am going to have real problems. I understand that and so may add dedicated IP once I'm up and running (Sept 2009). The dedicated IP allows for more traffic in this way. Without that, I understand that my students will see white screens as requests are quietly killed by site admin (by rule). If I grow beyond the needs of what dedicated IP can provide, then okay, by then I'll have some support to pay real money for real server power. If I'm not getting subvention from my school, a grant, or some other support, I should let someone else do it, LOL

Finally, the PHP memory thing. The sales rep at Bluehost said it was set at 128. Does this sound right? What do you think? Does anyone want to report on this issue with Bluehost? Any advice?

I don't plan a very chunky website, but I don't want to be too restricted with respect to Modules. For example, I will certainly be running Views. How many I cannot say. I see people on these boards describing having 50 or 100. I don't really have a sense of this in practical terms, but right now I'm probably not running even 25 modules.

I'm on Hostpapa right now--its php memory is set at 32--and frankly, these forums have explained why we've been having the issues at Hostpapa we have been having. We even told them we were doing some drupal development, and with no traffic, just sitting there slowly building. We had to get whitelisted to even access our accounts, so I guess the idea of visitors was out of the question. I guess we probably over did it earlier with the modules, so some clean installs over the course of the last year demonstrated that issue with the module largesse clogging up the plubming. Duh! I had no idea, so thanks, all, for that info. I'm still a newbie and only doing this myself because I have no budget to hire someone for real. I lived with DrupalEd for the last year, and learned a lot from it, but like I said, I'm now ready to go it alone with 6 and my own homemade themes. I'll post an update here, of course, if I have any experience with Bluehost and will wait around here for any response to this.

Any thoughts?

Thanks-

I use GreenGeeks for my site. They've been wonderful so far. I'm switching to a Drupal based review site soon too :) Works so fast!

http://www.midphase.com
http://www.site5.com
http://www.justhost.com
http://www.webhostingpad.com
http://www.fatcow.com
http://www.ixwebhosting.com
http://www.powweb.com
http://www.hostmonster.com
http://www.a2hosting.com
http://www.bluehost.com
http://logicboxes.com/product_pricing
http://www.2gbhosting.com

I am myself trying to find the best out of this list... So if any of you have used any of these and could comment on the same, that would be great...

Thanking in advance
:)

Have been using Hostmonster.
No problems so far.
Just hosted another site on the same account. CPanel support is brilliant!
Feel I dont even need SSH access. CPanel does everything for you. Lets you upload zipped files and then extract the contents, and vice versa.