Posted by kelvinleehk on July 4, 2011 at 4:46pm
I have recently started to work on a project on Drupal 7, however sadly our current hosting partner does not have a share hosting option that can meet the system requirement for Drupal 7. What do you guys use for your Drupal 7 projects? Can anyone recommend 1 or 2 plans that are economical for a small development house?
Thanks!
P.S. Haven't seen you guys for quite a while already due to work. How has everyone been? :)
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Your host can't run Drupal 7?
Your host can't run Drupal 7? It would be interesting to know what the limitation is.
Since you are a development shop it might be a good idea to use a VPS. We offer several VPS plans that you can run multiple sites from. Our sysadmins are very familiar with Drupal (it's 95% of what we do). There's lots included in the packages and plenty of room to grow.
https://www.getcadre.com/
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Dave Hansen-Lange
Director of Technical Strategy, Advomatic.com
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Other VPS provider.
Other VPS provider. http://www.linode.com/ will provide you a very good solution for cheap price. Check their website.
Julien Didelet
Founder
Weblaa.com
Thanks for the info!
It's always great to know there are hosting out there to serve the community. I will definitely take a look at them and give them a shot if I could :)
Drupal 7 is a monster. It has the following requirements:
PHP 5.2.5+ (5.3 recommended)
- Memory Limit 64M+
MySQL 5.0.15+ with PDO extension
- Max allowed packet 16M+
Apache 2.x
Throughout my search for the right hosting partner in Hong Kong, I realize that 80% of the (shared) hosting are still running PHP4 and MySQL 4.4. It is difficult enough to find share hosting service that can support the PHP and MySQL version requirement (let alone the memory requirement). I know I know, VPS is a better option in many cases. However as per the discussion with my hosting partners, they did mention that the control panel (cpanel / plesk) alone can eat up quite a large portion of memory and processing power already. If I am to subscribe a VPS service, I will have to go for $500/mo+ plans, which is too costly if we are handling just about 3 projects in avg at all time. Plus we really dun wanna take on the overhead of managing the VPS on our own (installation and setup of the PHP, MySQL, Apache, and various other extensions), so a shared hosting service is a more ideal solution, though it seems too much to ask in Hong Kong..?
Do you guys usually host your Drupal projects overseas btw?
Kelvin Lee
Onion Creative
Twitter: @KelvinLeeHK | @OnionCreativeHK
Google+: +Kelvin Lee
So far I have a dedicated
So far I have a dedicated server in Hong Kong to host my clients and my own site. And everything for drupal is enabled. If necessary I can add what you need. That server runs the last Debian and I provide you with SSH login.
Also I'm in Hong Kong these days and would be very interested to meet people from the community of Drupal people there. I'll soon be back in Beijing.
Contact me at phone at +852 6441 6581 (If it is not working it means i must add money in it, so you can send me SMS or try later).
My name is Julien.
Julien MARY
http://www.icdsoft.com/hostin
http://www.icdsoft.com/hosting.php?hk
PHP 5.2.17
I can use 128M on their platform
Joetsui's blog
I don't host any of the
I don't host any of the projects that I work on in HK. As you point out, many HK hosts are running 7yr old servers that have well known security vulnerabilities.
Note though that the requirements that you list are higher than the official specs:
http://drupal.org/requirements
MySQL is not a requirement (You can use SQLite which should be more performant on shared hosting anyway). Drupal can also run on Apache 1.3. And having a memory limit > 64M should only be necessary for a site with a lot of contrib modules.
An unmanaged VPS is a lot of work to manage on your own. Unless you have a sysadmin on staff (and even then) I would highly recommend getting a managed VPS. All of the VPS options at Cadre are managed. Neither is there CPanel running on these VPSes to steal resources (CPanel is pretty much useless for managed hosting).
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Dave Hansen-Lange
Director of Technical Strategy, Advomatic.com
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Joe you are da man!
icdsoft seems to be exactly what I'm looking for, and CHEAP!
1 question tho. What version is their MySQL? Have you tried implementing Drupal 7 project on it?
Kelvin Lee
Onion Creative
Twitter: @KelvinLeeHK | @OnionCreativeHK
Google+: +Kelvin Lee
yes, D7 i better dig my aff.
yes, D7
i better dig my aff. code somewhere..
Joetsui's blog
Drupal 7 hosting
Hey sourcesqr,
I have been using one company for Drupal 6 hosting for about a year now - http://www.vpshosting.com.hk and they are a Hong Kong based company providing VPS servers. The VPs server can manage the Drupal 6 resources with no issue so probably Drupal 7 would work on their system too.
Nikhil
Custom Web Solutions
Interlink Systems Ltd.
www.ilinksys.com
You do that, Joe..
You do that, Joe.. LoL.
Thanks for everyone's comment, particularly Joe's and Dave's! :)
Kelvin Lee
Onion Creative
Twitter: @KelvinLeeHK | @OnionCreativeHK
Google+: +Kelvin Lee
wow what happened
Suddenly the mail box just went BAM! and got filled with HK drupal group emails.
Nice to see some activity here, aside from the usual meetup emails :P
I recommended ClubVPS
I recommended ClubVPS http://www.clubvps.com/products/cloud
Fast support, High internet speed.