Posted by mkmagu on May 23, 2010 at 10:28pm
I was going to move my Drupal sites over to Hostgator.com they are now limiting all shared hosting to 64M for PHP limits. I know form my sites I needs 128M they will not upgrade I was told I would need to get a dedicated server. I will be looking for another host provider.
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64M is not unusual for shared hosts.
I do have a site5.com shared hosting account which I tested that it can go to 256M. I don't know if that is sustainable for permanent use, since these days I am mostly using an unmanaged VPS with $20/month.
I had an account with them a
I had an account with them a few years ago and they were willing to jump it up to 128 but not this time. I posted it just in case someone was looking at them for hosting. I know with my sites 64 just is not enough. Right now all I can afford it shared but I'm hoping to be on VPS by the end of the year.
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If you really need more than
If you really need more than 128M memory, you should consider a VPS hosting. Most of shared hosting will give you 64M (or less).
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hostgator sucks, i have
hostgator sucks, i have resellet account there but its the same as shared i guess and everything is so slow. i was loyal to them for years but seems they just want to have plain html pages on their shared hosting and take money from them, database is so slow, takes sometimes minutes to open module page i dont need vps or dedicated, just normal speed but seems i cannot get it from them. :-(
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re: hostgator sucks
I can confirm that, HostGator is not very "drupal friendly".
I had (in fact still have...) a reseller accountt with them for more than 2 years. As long my sites had very small traffic it was fine, no big troubles, no big downtime, nice live support. Once one of my sites got some medium traffic (aprox. 1500 visitors/day) everything was slow and once they simply deactivated my account with no warning.
In a mail they said that my site "put in danger" the other sites from that shared server because of the high server load of a faulty script. Guess which script was? "index.php"... So, they simply deactivated index.php because of a peak of traffic. This is the way HostGator handles traffic peaks :(
I've spent more than 8 (eight) hours to explain and beg (yes, beg) them to put my site back, to convince them that there is no evil script hidden in my Drupal installation.
So, my advice is:
1. if your drupal installation is a 'quiet' one, no snippets, small traffic then HostGator is fine, is pretty cheap and - generally speaking - ok
2. if you are planning more traffic or you are going to use some sql snippets, etc, just look for a better provider.
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I had similar experience.
I had similar experience. They ban index.php and then nothing works and they play dumb then, i bet they know everything but its just chepar for them to make you go to other hosting then let everyone have more resources, so you should just go away and forget about this, similar with every other shared hosting, anhosting or whatever else is there. some VPS could be good way i think, still testing them and didnt have peaks so far to know how do they behave.
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Shared Web hosting should be
Shared Web hosting should be only used for low traffic Drupal site, which are developed with few modules. If you use some high memory demanded modules, such as imagecache, etc, then a VPS will be needed at least.
Another topic is about their reseller account, it's interesting to me that they do have the same limited as their shared hosting.
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Shared is basicly the same
Shared is basicly the same thing as reseller, you get to resell shared hosting. With you saying what you said, dont understand your link saying best drupal hosting, then it cant be best drupal hosting :-)
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