So, what host providers are REALLY Drupal friendly?

I have a VPS (virtual private server) account with TekTonic.net that runs Drupal fine. It's right at $15/month, but comes with sufficient memory and disk to run Apache and MySQL without any problems. The only catch is that you're root on the (virtual - UML) box and have to be comfortable enough on the command-line to "apt-get update ; apt-get -f dist-upgrade" yourself from Debain 3.0 to Debian Sarge. On the other hand, the flexibility of a virtual server is great. No more begging hosting admins to load this or that...

The way Debian works, you'll automatically get all of the dependencies loaded with "apt-get install drupal" and the package installation scripts take care of database setup and creation.

Cheers,
tony

Have you considered http://opensourcehost.com/? They'll setup Drupal for you. (I'm not an opensourcehost.com customer so I don't know how good their service is.)

Transnexis are really, really good.

http://www.transnexis.com

No, I don't own shares in them, but I wish I did ;-)

From reading posts here, you'd think they suck, but on my free account I have been able to:

Install 3 Drupal sites (using table prefixing on one MySQL database)
Install ImageMagick and Aspell
Enable clean URLs
...all without trouble

Things you can't do on 1and1: install perl modules

They are pretty poor on responding to emails, and offer pretty much no customization but if you can do it yourself, they have a very reasonable $10/mo Drupal-compatible package.

Warr -

I recently started using WestHost.com for our new Drupal site. Their support is EXCELLENT, and provide a great environment for Drupal sites. My experience has been so good, that I decided to join their affiliate program - and will be featuring their banner through the banner module soon from my site.

I encourage everyone looking for a hosting facility for a Drupal (or any other site) to check them out via this link

Enjoy!

Radi

I'm using AQHost and it is great. It is very affordable. I'm paying $16/month and am hosting almost 20 virtual domains.

What I really like is that they offer Fantastico, an installer of over 40 different open source apps (include Drupal).
http://www.aqhost.com/one-click-install.php

I enjoy playing with the different open source apps and being able to install them in less than 20 seconds (and uninstall). I know that other hosting companies use Fantastico too.

The company seems to be a small shop, but the support is outstanding and I have not had any down-time in the past 6 months.

They also were able to install some custome Drupal Scripts upon request for a nominal fee.

http://www.aqhost.com/

www.g3hosted.com, my website is always fast, have had no downtime, and best of all support is really helpfull. My account has Fantastico, this let me setup Drupal in less than 30 seconds, it creates the database and config file for you. Also has phpMyAdmin, .htaccess, cpanel, ImageMagik (for drupal image module) and the works. If you're interested contact me through www.nik.ca and I can get you deal :)

long live drupal!

I have had virtual hosting accounts with them, many people at civicspace use them. All the stuff you want for hosting drupal. Thier support is awesome, and they also provide great dedicated and colo services. They just started a new set of plans, http://www.10for10.com/ where you can get 10 sites (domains) for $10/mo. I have been working with them on dozens of websites for years. Great folks, great services, ridiculous uptime. No they arent paying me ;).

Oh, and I just saw they are having a special where you pay for one year and get the second year free, ridiculous.

what to look for. We have hosting that's obviously drupal friendly, since we run drupal on it and host other sites with the same behind the doors features we use. Take a look at out hosting packages. we could work something really nice for $15.00 ... most people only need 1 gb disk space, unless they have a lot of images. http://drupal.cyberocity.com is the drupal website. http://support.cyberocity.com is the ordering/support site. We just installed automated instant account activation, a php script that creates your account immediately after you pay. It is still being tested but it works.

Check it out... oh BTW drupal installs from your private CPanel using Fantastico ...
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LeBlank

Dreamhost works great!

Miguel Duarte

Webmaster of: Lisbon Guide & Love Poems

http://modwest.com I have been hosting with them for years. I am very picky about support -- by the time I turn to support, you need some real guru to help me and as usual, I need it ASAP. They have that. They have fixed rewrite rules I have written in the past which I find pretty amazing.

I use the shared host option which gives your own environment, you may edit php.ini to your heart's content. Yet it's not full virtual host (for me, it means no admin hassle, no need to do security updates and so on) and you do not need to know Linux too much, no apt-get or so.

For $15 a month you get 2 gigabytes Disk and 30 gigabytes transfer.

Usual disclaimer: I am not a modwest employee or owner or whatever, just a very, very satisfied user for long years.

http://www.hostmatters.com
I've been with them for several years and never had a problem installing a whole slew of open-source cms scripts.
You can get a small account with 1 mysql database for just $6/month, and the prices for the other accounts are also very reasonable.
Servers are RedHat/cPanel with Fantastico.
Takes me about 5-10 mins to set up a drupal site there (that includes grabbing the tar.gz file, unzipping etc. on the server).
If you have any special requirement (modules etc.), they are happy to oblige.
I once mentioned that I'd love subversion to be available on the server, for checking out projects, and within 5 minutes they had installed it for me.
They really are good folk there.

Britta
developer for nznaturaldog.org.nz, a drupal-powered community site

Xeriom.NET (http://xeriom.net/) are ideally suited to host the Drupal platform for the UK market. As well as having great plans, we will install Drupal on your webspace and setup all the database stuff so you just have to sign up for your initial user.

A working install of Druapl running on our servers can be found at http://geek-syndicate.org/

If you'd like to ask any questions please don't hesitate to email me; my email address is included in my signature below.
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I'm using two different hosts, one supports cpanel with the fantastico script installer, which includes drupal. With this provider I can install and upgrade drupal very easily, with just a few clicks. With the other one I have to do everything manually.

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canadian directory | capmex.biz

I'm surprised no one has mentioned ASO yet.

www.asmallorange.com

Excellent prices, and their customer service is the best I've ever seen.

Very Drupal friendly!

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Josh Stevens
Nautilus7 Design | www.nautilus7.com

I'm thinking about hosting a customers site here. For $7.50, they offer unlimited storage and 50GB bandwith. Full plan details here.

Any good or bad experiences?

Thanks,

bonobo

I've run several Drupal sites at www.lunarpages.com very successfully. $7.95 per month with lots of storage and bandwidth.

- gil -

We have little problems hosting Drupal and despite being services and not mass market directed we tend to chage (depending upon the resource demands of a project) for a typical operations less (even including domain, mail and other "basic" other services). We don't charge any set-up fees--- and no fees to leave either. We don't have any moving prices for disk storage or transfer either but handle these things on a case by case basis since its not really ever a question of how much traffic a site is getting in a month but how much impact on the network the site's traffic and resource demands are. Most of the non-premiere sites would be probably be under the 120 EURO/Year mark--- and many well below that.

About us:

IBU/BSn: We've, to put it lightly, have been around for some time. My company was among the first to provide commercial Internet services in Germany, back even (1992) before the acceptable use policies were lifted on the then ASF backbones--- I personally go back to the early days of the ARPAnet--- and a WWW early adopter... In fact, among other basic Web technologies and concepts, the first ever Mail->Web gateway came from me.

We have, however, an acceptable use policy and don't accept sites judged by us (yes subjective appraisal) to have pornographic or primary racist content.

With respect to Drupal--- and why I've come to this site--- we are working on launching some new concepts and modules (see my points in the General Forum) within the D-A-S-H project ( http://www.d-a-s-h.org ) to advance the development of a vision of a Pan-European youth information network. As many of you know, Drupal has been successfull in the project.

Fluidhosting is very nice.

Textdrive has been amazing, and they are active on their support forum (forum.textdrive.com)

$12/month

If asked, they would probably even make Drupal one of the open source projects you can choose to have half the profits from your subscription contributed to.

I've been using Site5 with no problems. I am running multiple Civic Space sites using their hosting (I'm on a reseller account).

They include Fantastico, but I haven't used it to install Drupal since I use Civic Space.

They always answer my questions very quickly and have lots to offer.

I set up a site for a friend with an account on siteground.com. It went quite smoothly and works on their cheapest account, $5/month. Doesn't see a lot of traffic, though, so I can't speak to scalability. Also their support people tend to mark issues as resolved as soon as possible, even if they're not really resolved.

I also have a site running on 1and1, which I started using because of their free 3 year deal a while back.

I've had excellent success with http://www.aqhost.com. They run a nice LAMP setup and the $40 a month package (the high end) even allows unlimited mysql DBs and 50 domains. I'm hosting no less than five drupal sites there at the moment, and support's good as well. They have Fantastico for turnkey Drupal config, but Fantastico is still at version 4.6.1.

Definitely check them out, I've been really happy with the pricing, service, and support.

I'm thrilled with 101sitehosting.com. They charge $29.95/year (which comes to under $3/month) and offer Drupal. I can (and do) install additional modules. You can see my site at www.beyondsatire.us. The service has been excellent (fast, intelligent responses to my technical questions).

Highland Webosting is a drupal friendly host, i.e. all of the pre-requisites are already in place, and we even have drupal on our installer for people who aren't confident that they'll be able to get the initial drupal install to work first time.

The prices are also in our opinion, really good value, and the extras are also really cheap for when you want to expand the plans a little bit.

http://www.highlandwebhosting.com

After a LOT of looking around for a few days in mid-March 2006 and comparing features, pricing, etc., I went with DreamHost.

For more info, please visit http://drupal.org/node/46707#comment-104697

DreamHost has A LOT OF FEATURES to offer, including a really nice control panel they developed. Also, the COUPONS I created for folks to use when signing up should make the DreamHost offer all that more attractive. I created two coupons: (1) a NO4995SETUPFEE coupon to waive the $49.95 set up fee that appears on monthly plans and (2) a 50DOLLARDISCOUNT coupon to obtain a $50 discount on the initial cost of any plan that's for a year or two. For example, you'll pay an average of $5.78/month on the Level 1 "Crazy Domain Insane" 1-year plan with the $50 coupon vs. $9.95/month without the coupon. You simply enter the coupon code when signing up to get the discount!

Another Drupal user here on the forums gave me a great deal by allowing me to use his coupon (anyone can obtain and freely use a coupon; they come from DreamHost and it's their marketing incentive to promote sales). So, I'm extending a discount to other folks that are in need of hosting like I was. You'll be able to offer other folks a discount and also make a small amount of money by recommending DreamHost and having folks use your coupon, so everyone wins! :) Take a look at http://dreamhost.com/rewards.html

If anyone has questions about the coupons, please feel free to contact me via http://drupal.org/user/15083/contact.

Thank you and I hope the info above helps!

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President, Wellness Corps, LLC
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Drupal Users and Developers by Geographical Location
http://drupal.org/node/46659

I am! (See node/56175

My servers have:

Apache
PHP
MySQL
GUI admin for MySQL (phpMyAdmin on one but a different app on the other)
Ready to roll and working with Drupal and clean URLs

I (server support staff) won't argue with my fellow Drupal developers - and will listen to what you need. If I know you and trust you, I'm even happy to let you configure the server yourself for the benefit of all of us using it.

What does it cost? I provide hosting starting from 10.00GBP (about $17) a month

I use IX Web Hosting for my drupal sites. They seem to work really fast. They don't have cron but poormanscron works great for me. Their hosting that supports drupal starts at under $7 a month.

George Algozzini

interesting discussion guys. Any uk or european Drupal users got any hosts they could recommend? I notice that many of the above are US based.

Paul

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Graphic Designer.
New to Drupal and loving it large.

I've got my stuff hosted on NearlyFreeSpeech.net, and a recent post on their member forums shows that installing Drupal is pretty straight forward. They give you one or more MySQL database processes, and you can administer your virtual host via SSH in a FreeBSD jail. The service is great (the guy who runs it posts on the forums, and they have very dedicated support staff). The cool thing is the pricing - they only charge for bandwidth used (1US$/GB or lower if you buy in bulk) and storage (very little money). No basic fee, no setup fees. You get your account with SSH access and everything for just 1$.

It's well connected in the US. Routing to Europe can be a bit on the weak side - that's not a problem for me, I just host a normal website, not media-intensive stuff.

http://www.david-reitter.com

I suggest everyone actually wait a few months before you pass verdict. Some hosting companies seem great while you build your site but once that's done, they'll back on everything they promised and said.

I can only recommend Bluehost on this. They are wonderful!
15Gb of space and 400Gb of transfer @$6.95 per month, with full out-the-box Drupal support and Fantastico scripts.

Check out http://www.dieinter.net/bluehost_is_great

I'd have to plug www.sustainablewebsites.com (my own company), since almost all the sites I am creating for clients are in drupal. We have fantastico installer for 4.6 and are also compatible with 4.7
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ivanoats on #drupal-support IRC

I have been with Site5 for 8 months and I am very satisfied. All trouble tickets were handled quickly and accurately. But I have only had two problems (which I created). I have had two brief outages, They use the forum section for outage notices, so I was informed - they could have been more descriptive. I have a dosen sites up and have used Fanastico to install and uninstall WordPress and Joomla and then install Drupal. All installs and uninstalls were easy (3 steps). Since people are listing offers, I went to http://www.site5.com and the least expensive 'unlimited' sites offer is $9.97/ month if you pay for two years and 11.97/ month for annual billing and it goes up for shorter contracts. They list a 60 day money back quarantee and so on.

They have been developing - and finally 'got it' - a multisite and individual site integrated management tool. I love it. It is intuitive for a Windows professional. Adding and managing sites is almost too easy. And it is allowing me to slowly get acquainted with all things ending in "...nix"as well as php, etc. because site creation is not killing me. Now, I am getting on with the business of learning Drupal. And trying to have some content.

Best wishes,
joltman

I use http://Made2Own.com for my hosting. I believe I have their middle "value plan", if I remember correctly. It is inexpensive ($5.50 a month or something like that, I pay by the year). Plenty of disc space and bandwidth for me, but, maybe not if you have a really high traffic site and/or a lot of images or something. MySQL and Postgres, unlimited domains, unlimited emails, unlimited databases. cPanel for configuration. SSH if you request it (may have to jump through some hoops).

I have had no really problems with them, but, keep in mind their TOS states you need to do your own backups -- if they have catastrophic problems you are on your own to restore your site - this is probably standard, but... The will try to keep your site backed up but it is ultimately your responsibility to backup and restore should bad things happen.

I have Drupal and Joomla on DreamHost without problems. It is not fantastic fast but enough good. And they upgrade themselves permanently.
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xScience.Info

I currently host one site with Maiahost and I am pleasantly surprised. Great price and fast support.

I picked up one of their developer packages a couple years ago and it's been outstanding. Their basic packages with MySQL and PHP start at $5 - and that is with 25 databases, 2 free domain names and 100 GB of web space.

I currently have over twenty websites running off of my shared server package and integration with Drupal has been very easy. http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=6434541

I happily recommend it to all my customers after I tried out a lot of other hosts.

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