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overtninja’s picture

ive been with www.jaguarpc.com for almost 2 years. no complaints.

mattm’s picture

Before you switch, have you tried turning on the cache function?
It really helped lower the stress on my server.

TurtleX’s picture

Funny you should mention jaguarpc, that's the host I am fleeing.

Cacheing didn't help. I had to turn off nearly all the modules to get my site back up.

overtninja’s picture

wow that is funny

drubeedoo’s picture

JaguarPC is a host I was considering after my ongoing fiasco with Site5. Damn, isn't there anyone out there that can get this right?

capmex’s picture

TurtleX, are you looking for a shared hosting plan, virtual private server or dedicated server? If it's not an indiscretion, can you tell me how much traffic (visitors/pageviews) are you receiving daily and how many contributed modules you have enabled?
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ojkelly’s picture

If your in the right country Aust. of US try http://servage.net it is incredibly good for $AU10 mo

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TurtleX’s picture

I managed to get it working on my current host. I just had to turn off all the cool modules :(, at least it's working.

If it's not an indiscretion, can you tell me how much traffic (visitors/pageviews) are you receiving daily and how many contributed modules you have enabled?

I get about ~3,000 daily uniques with ~105,000 daily pageviews. I had the stats module, calendar, RSS and some others turned on. I think the stats module was the killer.

capmex’s picture

I have also disabled the stats module. I manage only a fraction of your uniques/pageviews and the database size skyrocket, I can imagine the number of database entries added on a single day on your site and the load they can create.

Anyway, I get better stats reports from the statistics programs provided by my webhost.

I recall having a lot more pageviews before I installed the badbehavior module, analyzing my logs I found many robots (email harvesters, etc.) loading a lot of pages. If your site has many pages you might want to use this module to reduce traffic from them, after all they just waste your resources.

I saw some time ago a file based cache patch http://drupal.org/node/45414, it might worth take a look.

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HedgeMage’s picture

I recently moved to Dreamhost and they are great. I have a little over a terabyte of transfer allowance per month and growing, and have not yet had any problems with them. The friend who first told me about Dreamhost has a high-ish traffic site (a bit heavier traffic than you mention in your post), and absolutely loves them.

They are a bit expensive to get started with, but IMHO they are worth it. If you know someone who has an account with them already, that person can opt to forfeit their referral fee to give you a coupon for $50 off the first month of monthly service (basically, waive the startup fee) or $97 off if you prepay for a year or more.*

Susan

* I'm not posting a promo code because you don't know me, and have no reason to believe that I'm not making money off of this somehow. If you'd like me to make you a promo code that turns my whole refferral bonus into a discount for you, just email me. I have a personal policy of doing this for anyone who asks nicely because I couldn't have afforded to start with Dreamhost if a kind person hadn't gifted me my first year of service.

However, you can achieve the same effect by having anyone you trust go to the Dreamhost rewards info page, creating a refferal account, and making you a discount promo code. (You can't refer yourself, but you can refer people without having an account. Moms, best friends, etc are useful for this sort of thing.)

Rosamunda’s picture

(yet).
www.minervahosting.com
They even install it though Fantastico.
I´ve been using it for a while and everything seems just fine.
(and their support is terrific)

Rosamunda
Buenos Aires | Argentina
www.ligadelconsorcista.org

MrChoke’s picture

I think servage.net is a good server for drupal.
it can modify owner .htaccess.

if you look for good server just click below, you will got 5g.
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catch’s picture

We have a similar size site that we're shifting multiple CMS and static content into drupal for. We're currently using a VDS from blackcatnetworks.co.uk have been using the medium 256mb plan but will have to upgrade to 384mb because it's swapping atm.

Also worth looking at rimuhosting.com for VPS servers as well.