By Charles-2 on

My hosting service - godaddy.com - has disallowed the use of about 20 php variables that drupal needs to run. Does anyone have any recommendations for other hosting services that are more compatible with drupal?

Thanks in advance!
Charles

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grace5’s picture

grace5 commented

We already have it installed and working on servers.

1Ahosting.com
w3ace’s picture

w3ace commented

I've got drupal working with w3ace.com being hosted for a very reasonable price at: personalsites.org

Classic Atari Games http://atariace.com

mike3k’s picture

mike3k commented

I like PEHosting.com. I have 3 domains hosted there (one each using PHP-Nuke, Movable Type, and Drupal). Their basic package is $2.99/month for 200M with 5G bandwidth.

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cel4145 commented

I have associates using Open Source Hosts (I have my own server so I don't use hosting). Note that they will even install Drupal for free for you. And they also run opensourceCMS, a great resource for everyone interested in CMS's. That's a good reason to use them if all other things are equal since they do much to promote the use of open source CMS software.

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Charles-2 commented

I've gone with w3ace's suggestion of personalsites.org. I'm rather inexperienced with choosing hosts. It's hard to put my finger on exactly why I chose them. Almost all sounded better than GoDaddy - of course hindsight is 20/20!

Thanks again!
Charles

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danesparza commented

I just wanted to point out that I'm using GoDaddy's cheapest plan (which comes with a MySQL database and PHP access for around $4 / month -- see here for more details: https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosting/shared.asp ).

4.5.2 seems to work fine with one hitch: news aggregation doesn't seem to work because they look like they block outgoing requests from the server. I was suprised that the install went so smoothly, actually -- considering the original post left me very pessimistic.

I did have to use the code fix suggested here: http://drupal.org/node/1190 -- but aside from that it works great. Emails send out no problem, database access is snappy and I'm lovin life. Drupal rocks.

-D

nsk’s picture

nsk commented

I reccomend WestHost: http://portal.wikinerds.org/paidhosting

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NSK, Admin of Drupal-based site http://www.wikinerds.org

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gordon commented

what variables are they disallowing?

maybe we can sort of blacklist them, or maybe better still work with them to allow drupal to work. I don't like blacklisting people but we should be able to get drupal working to some degree with them.

BTW I use glob@ which works pretty well except I haven't been able to get clean url's going yet.
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Gordon Heydon
Heydon Consulting

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Gordon Heydon

jiangxijay’s picture

jiangxijay commented

PAIR also doesn't support a number of functions, including IMAP extensions, with it's PHP 4 support. This is causing me a great deal of angst ... should I stay or should I move?

http://drupal.org/node/15020#comment-36170

wwwoliondorcom’s picture

wwwoliondorcom commented

hi,

Can you tell me if Drupal is now ok with Godaddy?

Thanks.

http://www.oliondor.com

nguka408’s picture

nguka408 commented

I installed drupal on godaddy with no problems with the LINUX hosting plan - I got an ulcer trying to get it work with windoze... but with godaddy/linux, so far so good

theskunk’s picture

theskunk commented

I just tried it and i'm just having issues telling it to connect to my mysql database!

Maybe i need to wait until tomorrow for everything to sync up, but i didnt think it would be this bad...

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asethi commented

I am happy with HostMonster. They have a script for install, the performance is pretty good, and the bandwidth is practically unlimited. The service is good, they have responded very timely. They have an excellent control panel and FTP and SSH access. I am quite happy with it and it is only $6 a month.

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ms1 commented

But i think they do not offer a VPS plan. What they have is shared plans, reseller plans or a dedicated plan, but no semi-dedicated one. When I asked them, they say they have something like a unmanaged Dedicated plan for $75/yr, but if you run into trouble its $75/hr for the admin to look into it.

asethi’s picture

asethi commented

I checked and HostMonster doesn't have VPS hosting. Only shared hosting, but its pretty cheap at $6 with full features including SSH & control panel which does the Drupal upgrades for you. (They already have 5.3 upgrade in their script)

drewcephas’s picture

drewcephas commented

I am having a tough time with GoDaddy as well. I have there Linux/hosting that they give free with a domain name purchase. Can anyone give me a little more info on how to setup drupal using GoDaddy? I am a total rookie, so the more detail the better! Thanks!

kage.fu’s picture

kage.fu commented

i'm using the bottom-tier linux hosting package and installation is not just easy - it's automated.

https://hostingconnection.godaddy.com/Application/Drupal.aspx

just log in and click install - the rest is pretty obvious.

robin1232’s picture

robin1232 commented

They've made some changes there since your posting. You can't use the automated install to install Drupal on a free hosting account any longer BUT you still can do it yourself with FTP. The automated install is only available if you have a paid Linux hosting account.

jruberto’s picture

jruberto commented

Just wanted to make a current comment on hosting a Drupal site at GoDaddy.

I recently got a Drupal 6.12 + Ubercart installation working on the bare-bones Economy Linux Hosting with minimal fuss. I did not use their automatic Drupal installer, I manually set everything up (including the Ubercart encryption certificate needing to be outside the webroot) and it went smoothly. I did not have to do any wacky configuration or jump through any .htaccess hoops or anything like that. PHP5 defaults seem okay, MySQL5 working fine. It's only been a couple days, but site performance seems acceptable, if a little slow at times.

I was happy to note that the hosting account does come with SSH access (it's not enabled by default, you have to activate it in the hosting control panel). I'm not sure how I would have been able to set up the Ubercart encryption certificate outside the webroot without shell access, since the FTP login drops you in at the webroot and you can't go up any higher. Shell account lets you get up into your hosting root and make a directory alongside the /html/ directory, then you can refer to it from the system root (it will be something like /home/content/m/y/w/mywebsite/ubercart_certificate_folder_which_i_created ) -- issuing the "pwd" command at the shell prompt will tell you the full path to your current location.

I was unhappy to learn that unless you upgrade to a higher tier of hosting, you do not get access to apache access or error logs. This is kind of lame, especially around setup & troubleshooting.

All in all, not bad for super-cheap hosting. I will also report that their tech support has been consistently friendly and competent.

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jefflocke commented

I moved a site to godaddy from imageleet where I build it. It's a small site for a non profit org I help with and they already had the server paid for a year. When I moved the site there was a significant difference in performance. Even when I use the ftp client I notice a a much slower speed. Not having cPanel on godaady is a negative. Bluehost at $3.95 with 2yr pmt. seems like a good deal. Imageleet has been fine but the 3.95/mo for a small npo saves a few bucks.

Any feed back on BlueHost would be appreciated.