VPS.net

Posted by feconroses on November 12, 2009 at 1:11am

Hey! i have been hosting my drupal site in ANhosting for 4 month now. Its a complex drupal site with tons of modules and heavily uses the database. Support is great but the page its too slow (it takes like 20-30 seconds for loading a page when you are logged-in).

Im now considering buying 1 node from VPS.net, try virtual private servers perfomance and increase nodes from there.

I was wondering, have any of you tried VPS.net with a complex drupal site? Whats your experience with this provider and its performance? Did it improved the site speed if you previously were on a shared hosting?Any advantages/disadvantages with this company? What about support?

My priority is that it NEEDS to be fast and have a good performance.

Thanks in advance!!

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Really?

Posted by Cayenne on November 12, 2009 at 2:30am

I am on ANhosting for a somewhat low-traffic but bulky site and do not have anywhere near that poor performance. You might pause a moment to see whether there's something that is dragging your site down.....

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I currently have several

Posted by csdco on March 29, 2010 at 2:19pm

I currently have several sites on ANHosting and they all receive relatively low traffic but have spikes of really poor performance. I.E. MySQL crashing, 30 second timeout (page not found), etc. This can happen once or twice a day, and then things go back to normal. This recently happened on a brand new Drupal installation, so it couldn't have been me using too many modules / too much content / etc.

At first I was incredibly impressed with them, and the numbers on paper look good (practically unlimited bandwidth, space, access to cpanel and cron, a somewhat well-tuned mysql db) but in practice the unreliable nature of their performance is making my clients very unhappy.

They are recommending vps.net and I'm curious as to how well they guarantee the shared resources...

Posted by JohnForsythe on November 16, 2009 at 3:32am

You only get 256MB of ram with a 1-node setup. You'll probably need at least 3 nodes to get good performance, but you might be able to squeak by with 2, if you're using something like Nginx instead of Apache.

You should definitely try to do some debugging/optimizing on your site first, though. Install the devel module and enable query logging, so you can find out what's causing the slow down.

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vps.net is part of midphase

Posted by seanray on November 17, 2009 at 1:50pm

vps.net is part of midphase (which now is uk2.net in the early of this year). This is a cloud product to replace their previous VPS solution. As I still hold an VPS account with them, in general, their product and service quite good.

As i don't know the traffic of your site, I think we can go with 1 node first, and probably can go for more node if it is not fast enough. A cloud solution should be able to scale your site very well.

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Posted by yktdan on March 13, 2011 at 9:09pm

So I signed up for the free node - pretty bare bones Centos. Old PHP. Currently their forum and wiki are down so hard to figure out what to do.

Although free, pretty hard to do much more than testing without getting charged, e.g. backup is extra, cpanel is extra. But I did figure out how to install Webmin. My raw sysadmin skills are pretty rusty so one of these is necessary.

They claim that there are many starting images, including one for Drupal, but I can't find it or it costs extra.

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