Who is your host?

Hi
Version 4.6.8 but testing 4.7 for later implementation too.
I use www.siteground.com and have had no complaints at all with them in the 6 months I've been there, they've been great.
Very little site traffic admittedly so I cannot say it's been stress tested yet.
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I researched this a lot and have used 3 over the last years.

These are the hosts I have used

1. I started with aplus.net without doing much research, they were o.k. but too limited in my opinion
2. I then researched like crazy and narrowed it down to 2. I went with hostgator.com which is who I am currently using. They were much better than aplus.net but have no shell access, something I didn't know I wanted/needed when I went with them. Hostgator does use the cPanel control panel with fantasticico. This allows you to install drupal with a few clicks, but I never used it since drupal is pretty easy to install. I had narrowed down my choices to them and site5.com. If I had it over to do again I would go with site5 because they have shell access, support for a lot of things.
3. In the mean time, I have gained the knowledge to set up my own server. I now am in the process of moving over to a vps solution at vpslink.com so I can do anything I want.

So I guess it depends what you want. My suggestion if you are in the US and just want a basic drupal site and want to manage it yourself look at hostgator.com or site5. If want a host who specializes in Drupal there is bryght.com. For a vps solution, I am very happy with vpslink.com, but this option is not for everyone unless you want to setup and manage a server via command line.

I forgot to mention I use godaddy.com for my domain registrar. It is nice to have your domain names registered with another company other than your host so you can switch a little easier if you decide to in the future.

You should be cautious of any links that contain reseller ids. Not that I don't want to support resellers, (I am one myself, not for hosting though), but sometimes they are a little biased.

I have been with 1and1 for 3 years now. Drupal v4.6.2 , v4.7 rc2 and 4.7.2. Very satisfied.
Read this thread though. http://drupal.org/node/75311#comment-139699 (there are some other providers mentioned)
and this is a 1and1 / Drupal install howto: http://drupal.org/node/75041

ADDED:

- Clean URLs = YES
- Cron = YES
- Memory limit = 40MB
- Specific PHP modules = Everything I need for Acidfree etc. GD, sendmail etc
- PHP Version = 4.4.2 (php 5 available)
- space 150GB
- Monthly transfer 1500GB
- 100 x 100MB MySQL db's
- 3000 emails
- 5 domains included 200 subdomains
- software included :
# Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 4.0
# Adobe® GoLive® CS2
# Ulead® GIF Animator™ 5

This and more included in the $19.99 pm 1and1 Developer Plan.com

I am with Servage.net for www.francaisalondres.com - I am satisfied, plus the cost is very low.

I am with Webscorpion.com for www.birlouez.net and www.ifocus-ltd.com - the webadmin console is better then servage but i ma limited to 1 database only.

Both run 4.7.2 with clean URLs (also with Webscorpion I had to ask them to move me to a server that have it enabled).

Good thread. Very useful.

It would be more useful if some specific Drupal features are mentioned.

For example:

- Clean URLs (which means mod_rewrite is enabled, .htaccess is allowed, ...etc.)
- Cron
- Memory limit
- Specific PHP modules (e.g. GD for images, smtp for email, ...etc.)
- PHP Version
- Any specific resource limits (e.g. they kill processes which take more than X CPU time, or Y MB of RAM, ....etc.)

Hosting companies today tend to advertise loads of disk space and bandwidth, and people only look at those. However, the fine print (or unpleasant surprise) is when you find that there are resource limits or missing features.

So, adding a comment on whether those are supported or not is a good idea.
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I get very little traffic. Here is my site:

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Hi, I can't really give stats at this stage as very new but I took the advice of a postee here and signed up with Xion in the UK end of August.

They are really cheap (from my limited experience) and their support has been fantastic (Cheers Kieran).

They are experienced with Drupal.

I'm running 4.7.7 and will soon be implementing my multi-site config. once I've ironed out the last issue (with acidfree).

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I have http://www.virtualnic.com hosting and i am fully satisfied. I recommend them. VirtualNIC.com have affordable hosting plans.
btw Version 4.7.

hi drupalzack
i am using Godaddy more than 5 years, i started with shared hosting but then passed to their virtual dedicated servers.

for small sites i have a centos 5 server with their simple control panel virtual dedicated. this virtual host has 30+ customer sites. these sites do not have heavy usage so they are really fast with virtual dedicated. these sites totally have 30000+ visitors monthy and 60GB bandwidth usage. these are mostly brochure style sites and very less new content submission by their owners, they have nice templates so i preferred mostly joomla to those sites. also some static sites are stored there.

one of my forum(phpbb) site uses 2 servers at Godaddy. one server is pentium IV with 2 gb ram with firewall as mysql database, the other is used as web server with same configuration.

more than 3 years i am a godaddy reseller which reduces my total costs.

shared hostings have many tricks with all companies.
here are some tricks they use compared to dedicated and virtual dedicated.
some companies limit connection to mysql database
some make limit on number of concurrent users(one company is giving unlimited space but allow 25 users to connect site).
some uses very less cpu and ram power(ie one company is giving 300gb space but 100 hosting account users use the same cpu which means only 80mb of ram per hosting account)
some of them give unlimited bw but allow 80 connections with 50kb/sec per connection.

All kinds of variations can be found in industry. within all shared hosting providers again i prefer godaddy because i am ok with their server environment, panel, over all software and support.

but i dislike all shared hosts w/o looking at their company brands. i use shared hosts only for storing huge amount of files, i see them only as file storage places. i never use shared hosting for any dynamic sites.

as kbahey stated
"Hosting companies today tend to advertise loads of disk space and bandwidth, and people only look at those. However, the fine print (or unpleasant surprise) is when you find that there are resource limits or missing features."

you should ask company on what you get. i asked their support teams to get those details above from many companies. but be specific to what you want because mostly they only answer-they really honestly answer- what you ask but no more info they give.

i always give a discounted price account to open source community developers who wants hosting from me, because i benefit nothing monetary on discounted prices at my reseller, and those developers get cheaper services via me. We find this fair because i benefit from their modules w/o paying money and they benefit web services w/o paying me any money.

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Downtownhost
A2hosting
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I haven't had any problems with any of them.

I definitely do NOT recommend Bluehost.

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