By Sincraft on
When looking for a host, if I had an area where people leave comments or have discussions on a site, and the user base was around 100+, where are the comments stored? In the database or files on the server?
Places like Godaddy allow you a large amount of storage, but a limited database (200m)
I really need to find a host that has a fast response time. Godaddy has proven to me to be pretty good in this fashion...although their control panels sucks bad.
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Database
Content is generally stored in the database. So you will want a decent database config. I was at Dreamhost which is very nice, but not (when I was there) good on the database. ANHosting works pretty well for a modest-sized site such as yours and is a cheap way to get rolling.
Our sites are outgrowing ANHosting, and we are moving to a bigger VPS from a brief sojourn on a friend's dedicated host.
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For Drupal, compared with
For Drupal, compared with size of database, the more important factor should be considered is the connection speed between database server and web server. GoDaddy performs normal in this area.
For your case, you can consider the company like anhosting, bluehost, etc. Those should be good enough to support the traffic of your sites now. And response time from both of them are great.
As they are shared hosting, you might meet some problems when your daily traffic goes more than 200 ip per day, as they all have some constraints in consuming their resource from cpu to memory. It that happens, you should consider a VPS hosting.
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This thread is about the size of the database
This thread is about the size of the database.
Here the question is, what is the max limit for ONE/ALL databases in an account.
It's a good question.
Though, many hosts provide "unlimited databases", is there any limit on one of the databases and / or all the databases. Also many of them provide "unlimited disk space".
It's a tricky question, like the PHP memory limit.
Let's get the opinion from experienced Drupal users.
will the size of database
will the size of database become an issue? My drupal site with close to 1000 articles, and I only use around 3MB database.
100MB is actaully very large for database.
If you need more than, I think the size of your site will require you to host them in a Dedicated server, at that time, you definitely can decide how many space will be for database.
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Truth be told, GoDaddy is a
Truth be told, GoDaddy is a superb domain registrar, but their core competency is not web hosting -- so I am not sure why people buy hosting with them. There are tons of great cPanel hosts out there that will support what you're looking to do.
All of those comments are stored within the DB and MySQL databases do not use that much space. 200M is a fairly large drupal web site.
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