The best drupal hosting setup

We've tested numerous setups to optimize Drupal for speed and stability. What have you found to work best?

So far our best setup has involved using Debian, with varnish, CDN and then SSD for the SQL database. Obviously that's a bit more complicated than the average user wants, and certainly costlier.

PHP help and concatination

I am building a custom user profile theme and am looking for some help with php. I understand a fair amount, but am still a nube. In both cases below, the code breaks to the next line.

Issue #1

I want to have a custom label/header for one of the fields, "About [field_first_name]'s Job" e.g. "About Mike's Job". Similarly, I would like to have a label/header, "About [field_first_name]" e.g. "About Mike".

Here is the code to print the first name
<?php print render($user_profile['field_first_name']); ?>

This is the php I use on the page.

<div class="cells" style="width:600px;">
        <h2>About <?php print render($user_profile['field_first_name']); ?>'s Job</h2>
		<?php print render($user_profile['field_job_description']); ?><br />
        <h2><?php echo "About ";?><?php print render($user_profile['field_first_name']); ?></h2>
        <?php print render($user_profile['field_about_me']); ?><br />
</div>

Issue #2

I need to concatenate 2 fields into one line. Currently the php is rendered on a new line, as if a
was between the two fields. In this case I want the print render($user_profile['field_user_university']); and print render($user_profile['field_user_grad_year']); to appear on the same line.

how to join drupal IRC channels?

how to join drupal IRC channels at http://drupal.org/irc?

I had downloaded an IRC client called mIRC but the trial period ran out. Is there a free version of any irc client that can be used to join the drupal IRC channels?

Competitions (Drupal.org/Competitions/THEME or Module)

Currently drupal.org doesn't have themes/designers competition and just to be clear to all: Example:
www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Design-Challenge/2011-Gallery.aspx

DotNetNuke CMS has the "Design Challenge Competition" so vote this idea so it would be add on e.g: drupal.org/competitions/Theme

But to be clear, this competition must have rules in it and those rules are going to take place if this idea got the highest votes and this will improve drupal.org entirely =).

Want to Convert my Articlesetup script site into Drupal

I have been running a free press release site for a long time in a php script provided by article setup, though it has lot of bugs in ti and more over not much secure. Our free press release site is going more and more popular, so i want to take a few precautions for my site security and want to convert it into more secure site.

Is there anyway to convert the article setup script to Drupal with out losing any existing data, atleast database migration?

Tags on Modules|Themes by features and Useage.

Modules|Themes can be tagged by the owner of the module. And will improve search results:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud

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