Posted by adamharms on April 7, 2013 at 11:43pm
We need to change hosting for our drupal site. What host do you all use? Perhaps one with drush pre-installed?
What host do you use?
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site5.com/
I've been with them for many years. Shared hosting. Drupal installations run well. The price, I think under $10/month, is good for unlimited sites and bandwidth. The support is only by email and sometimes can take a few hours for response. The wait is not good but the responses and followup is good.
My server is in Amsterdam because my clients are in the middle east. That provides a better connections for that. You can pick servers in many parts of the world for just a couple $ more - and it really does make a difference if you have overseas clients.
What I don't understand is their "Cloud hosting". More than double the price yet they say the server is still from a single location (Dallas I think). So not sure what they mean by Cloud.
Drush
I think it is pre-installed on site5. I am messing with it right now. I can't tell if Drush module I installed on my Drupal installation also installed it on the server or it was there before.
I am having a hell of a time setting up Drush Aliases so I can sync local with remote. If someone out there can help, please let me know.
If you'd like to drop by
If you'd like to drop by before this month's High Performance Drupal Meetup, I can work with you on crafting a few Drush aliases. The meetup is from 6-8pm on Wednesday, April 17th:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/289083
If you want some help before then, just drop by Droplabs for this week's Mentored Drupal Training and I can work with you then. It's from 12-3pm on Friday, April 12th:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/289498
There are also a few tutorials that can help simplify the process:
http://lcadvanced.com/blog/drush-pro-tip-automatic-site-aliases
http://buildamodule.com/video/change-management-and-version-control-how-...
http://buildamodule.com/video/change-management-and-version-control-how-...
Droplabs has a site license for Build a Module.com and Droplabs staff can set you up with a day pass any time you drop by.
Thanks. I'll see you
either Friday or next Wed. Thanks for your reply. The Droplabs concept sounds great. I wish there was one in the Valley.
offinc: I took a look at your
offinc: I took a look at your site and it looks like you might indeed benefit from changing hosts. It's also possible that your site just needs some extra configuration to work properly in its current environment. Have you talked with Web Hosting Hub, where you're hosted now?
Do you have any sysadmin experience and a budget for a VPS server? I run all my servers at a variety of VPS providers, from BudgetVM and WebEnabled for low-end requirements to AWS and SoftLayer for high-end requirements, and I can't recommend VPS servers enough.
If you'd like some hands on help, drop by any of our meetups for Users Helping Users, or drop by for a quick consult at this month's Mentored Drupal Training. It's from 12-3pm on Friday, April 12th:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/289498
Hi Christenfano, Thanks for
Hi Christenfano,
Thanks for checking out the site. How did you figure out it was hosted with webhostinghub?
We have the dreaded white screen of death on any views or sections of the site (even in the backend) that display the most recent content. It appeared out of nowhere. All of the forum threads I looked at said I need to raise the max_execution_time and webhosting hub said they won't change it on a shared server environment. We are a low traffic site with a dedicated userbase and over 8,000 nodes.
Unfortunately this is a pet project and my partner and I who run it have pretty much no money, haha. So we have to figure out the most affordable option. We may try and have a fundraiser. Any suggestions for an affordable option that could fix our problem?
Thank!
Maybe I should try BudgetVM?
Maybe I should try BudgetVM? I have no idea what kind of package I would need though.
I said earlier that I'm using
I said earlier that I'm using BudgetVM but I'll be moving to another host very soon. Their prices are competitive but it seems that those prices are too good to be true.
One of my VMs has had two extended network outages (during which their support site was down, too).
They have one of the stranger SLA credit policies that I've seen (they require monitoring logs from a third-party service and the requests need to be filed within a month + 7 days of the outage).
To top it off, they rebooted one of my servers without my permission.
ThemeDeveloper
FWIW, disabling Theme Developer solved a similar problem for me; I still don't understand why - just that eliminating it solved the problem. The devel module did not cause me this type of problem (although it can really bog your system down).
The problem varied depending on what theme I was using; I had the problem with BlueMasters and Garland, but not Bartik.
Get a VPS
It could be max_execution_time or memory_limit as well. No way to know unless you turn on error reporting in your settings.php file. Unfortunately with shared hosting, a lot of hosts aren't willing to change any of those settings for you because it usually affects either on your machine or on the entire system.
I'd suggest checking out Digital Ocean. They have very affordable VPS solutions where you'll be able to control everything yourself. Plans start at $5/mo and no matter which plan you purchase, it's going to perform better than your shared hosting. I don't know of anything else that offers that much for that little, and I've got a couple sites hosted on one VPS from them and it's held up very well.
I do not work for them, just a happy customer who pays $10 a month to host two different sites that run quite fast.
Glad to hear a good
Glad to hear a good experience with Digital Ocean. They just opened a data center in San Francisco, so I might give them a try.
That said, they recently had a glaring security issue that makes me question using them for mission-critical sites in the near future:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/digitalocean/
Digital Ocean's FAQ says they use KVM. This typo of security incident would never have happened if they used Xen, which I always recommend.
re: Glad to hear a good
Christefano:
Why do you think Xen would be safer?.
It sounds like they were using Raw Disk access and not scrubbing the LUNs and the Wired article implies as much.
I'm not sure Xen in the same SAN infrastructure wouldn't have the same problem.
By the way, in case low
By the way, in case low round-trip latency is a priority, there's a section in the Greater Los Angeles Drupal Business Directory for webhosts with datacenters in the area:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/73063#hosting-companies
Dive into Linux
I suggest diving into Linux/systems admin and getting a VPS on linode.com and installing Aegir.