By Trunkhorn on

So I'm on dreamhost at the moment with a year and a half to go and am really wanting to bail on it for my drupal based site. I'm pretty sure I'm heading for Acquia Gardens when it materializes, but need a stronger solution until that point. I've got the hardware and relative Ubuntu knowledge to pull off a home server which I think would cover my 1000 daily visitors. I have a feeling that a hosted VPS solution will probably give me the same hassle that a home setup would, and the price will be equivalent, while I'll have much more hardware firepower than I could with any hosted VPS.

Thoughts/suggestions?

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seanray’s picture

seanray commented

If your site is not for your critical business, i think home setup should be fine. Otherwise, i would like recommend to go with VPS as they will make sure the fast connection and reliable infrastructure.

alpinejag’s picture

alpinejag commented

A lot of ISP's don't allow you to host on a home account (and you'll have a dynamic IP). If you have a business account you should be ok though.

marcus_clements’s picture

marcus_clements commented

Given the number of individual requests in an average web page the combination of low upward bandwidth, high contention on ADSL edge servers and the fact that each request has to travel from one edge of the network to another is likely to mean that your site's performance will be noticably degraded.

Do yourself a favour and use your local server for development but host live sites on a VPS. You can find a managed VPS which will need nothing more than a security review to host your Drupal with a reputable company with plenty of CPU for your 100 visitors for 200$ a year (or a little more in europe).

If you want a reccomendation for a responsive, well priced host in the UK let me know...

cheers

Marcus