hosting

I have a site that will be heavily used in only six or eight states but they are on different sides of the continental US. I found a really fast host on the east coast with super service, etc, but whenever there is heavy network traffic, it is dog slow on the west coast. I imagine the opposite is true. I found this by doing a tracert and seeing that the big delay was in the middle of the country.

Does anyone have any thoughts or advice on how to select a host for best performance in this case? It is truly a conundrum.

I started to use Drupal about 14 weeks 3 days ago as depicted in my account in Drupal.org. I found our Pinoy group because of this post.

I join because I want to keep in touch with people of my blood. I am not an IT professional and I don't have any proper training in website development. I started to build static pages last October 2007 in free hosting as a hobby, but this hobby turns into passion. My stay at free hosting gave me some opportunities to learn the basic HTML and some CSS. Being my passion, I go with the paid hosting at Yahoo! in November 2007 then run my static pages with my very own domain. How proud am I with my own domain.

De Webontwikkelaar heeft veel affiniteit met de creatieve aspecten rondom websites en (online) applicaties. De producten van Webontwikkelaar behoren tot de meest diverse binnen Byelex. Je maakt concept ontwerpen in Photoshop, brainstormt mee over mogelijkheden voor nieuwe websites en levert werkende websites op in PHP/ HTML en CSS. Je overlegt met de Senior Ontwerpers en Project Managers en leert je creatieve oplossingen overtuigend te verdedigen.

We've had various good efforts now at building mass provisioning solutions for Drupal. But too often we're building solutions in isolation, in competition, without enough resources to pull them off. We end up with duplication, half-finished products, privatized code. To put it mildly, it feels like we're not making the best use of the potential of open source.

Hi,

We need our www.projectstars.com site to run a lot faster than it is at the moment and wondered if anyone with experience could advise us on a good option for upgrading from our current virtual server. We're using memcache, block caching, and general drupal caching but as most of the site is dynamic I'm guessing that having a fast database server would help.

I'm looking for Drupal-friendly web hosting for my organization. If you send your suggestion directly to me I'll compile and e-mail the list. Thanks! (NOTE: I'm posting to the Bay Area group because I'm looking for hosting that has good network speeds here in the Bay Area.)

Desired specs
- prefer to spend <$50/month
- good network speeds in California important as visitors overwhelmingly from Bay Area
- typical Drupal requirements: Apache, PHP 5, MySQL, PHPMyAdmin
- tech support by phone would be nice

Traffic on our current (FrontPage) website
Storage: 300 MB

I am starting to do research on finding a hosting site for Drupal.

My starting research has led me to a service called "siteground" that is supposedly #1 for Drupal hosting.
I have also looked at the Drupal main page for hosting sites and they list a few, but not SiteGround.

I could host a Drupal site at my home ... but I then have to modify Postfix on my Linux box to send out email via another SMTP Server.

Thanks!
Tom

In de VS kom je allerlei shared hosting providers tegen die tegen een zacht prijsje een uitstekende omgeving aanbieden om Drupal te kunnen draaien.
Ik denk dan aan:

• Apache met mod-rewrite
• locale .htaccess toegestaan
• PHP5
• SSH-toegang
• PHPmyadmin
• automatische dagelijkse backups van MySQL

Als we dat zachte prijsje eerst eens achterwege laten: wie kent er hosting providers in Nederland die een dergelijke omgeving bieden?

After the DUG meeting tonight we were talking about hosting solutions for Drupal and thought it would be helpful to gather a list of our experiences.

So what hosting services that support Drupal do you know about, and which would you recommend? Do you use a managed solution or manually install yourself? How long have you used a particular service? What is your selection criteria: reliability, price, features, security, support, etc.?

Below are some previous threads on drupal.org that discuss the same topic...

Just wanna hear about your experience with hosting drupal.

Our current (non-drupal) site is hosted on our own server. Right now our article archive has more than 120.000 db rows taking up more than 1.6 gb. We have close to 30.000 registered users. So far this has worked out ok, but because we expect our new drupal site (which is still under development) to demand more of the server, we're thinking about outsourcing hosting.

Are you hosting in house or have you outsourced? If you outsourced, what hosting service do you use? If you're hosting inhouse what are your spec's?