Hosting support

I opened an account with them last night and they sent me an automated reply email saying I have to frikin fax them a page with my credit card pencil-printed on it, because they've been victim to too much credit card fraud, "sorry for the inconvenience", blabla.

I managed to get Drupal beta 5.02 installed... finally... and found out some disturbing things:

The database connection errors reported by the install script -- even though I knew bloody well I had all my ducks in a row -- happened when trying to install at my hosting account with IPowerweb.com. So I thouight I'd try to use one of my Godaddy.com hosting accounts to install in. The results were even worse, with the Beta 5.02 install script totally freaking when initially called, unable to even find a MySQL server which I knew was there. In desperation, I go to one of my old hosting accounts at Lypha.com and try the EXACT SAME installtion procedures that were failing at the other two hosting providers. Sure enough, this time it went through immediately, without a hitch, and installed like a dream.

Turns out that IPowerweb's control panel does NOT allow the database administrator to be assigned a couple of critical privileges like CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES and LOCK TABLES which are necessary for the Install script to run. I know... I couldn't believe it either when I finally realized... I *will* be having a talk with their tech folk. Idiots.

As for Godaddy, on their shared hosting accounts they have implemented strict security restrictions on what they will and won't allow to excute from a base URL. They simply won't allow the install.php script to connect to the database when it is called from the base URL as required. They admit this on the phone and say they won't change it. Some much for them, then. Control Freaks.

Hi everyone. i'm quite new to drupal and i have 4 new live corporate drupal sites (drupal 4.7.x, apache, mySql) (pretty much simple sites) hosted @ www.bluehost.com. it used to work just fine until all of a sudden i cannot login to ALL these. i can see the contents with no problem, all complete BUT when "admin" or any authenticated user logs in, it seems not authenticating and doesn't allow me to login. no errors, no nothing. may not be a drupal problem...but just in case you guys have any idea. i really need your help.

My site, open-personals.com is aimed at quite a few different English speaking countries.
If and when the project succeeds, it will also utilize drupal's AMAZING translation capabilities to translate to other languages.

Anyway, I am currenly hosting with DreamHost, and while it looks the server load numbers are fine, it is really slow in some parts of the world.

Is there anybody who's using Servage.net as a host provider? I have some problems with them (my site is not sending every email) I need some tricks from people who use Servage.net

I like their features, but I'm afraid they might over-sell. Any opinions?