shared hosting

Introduction

I just started my first multisite setup (on a shared hosting account).

• sites/default → example.com/drupal
• sites/foobar.example.com → foobar.example.com

The problem

Clean URLs work great for example.com/drupal.

Hi everyone,

I exactly followed intructions explained here: http://drupal.org/node/125539

Except, i used SSH symlink instead of multisite.php trick:

ln -s ./drupalsite ./subdomain1
This symlink only creates shortcuts for all files and folders of drupalsite(original drupal installation) in subdomain1(new multisite). When i navigate subdomain1 it takes me to drupalsite not to subdomain1's install page. If i navigate subdomain1/install.php, i get a 404 error. When i look at subdomain1 folder via FTP program i see the same files and folders as drupalsite folder.

Via this story, I see that GoDaddy now has their own auto installer, called Hosting Connection.

It installs Drupal amongst other scripts, and also includes a rating component.

We should:

• reach out to GoDaddy and see how Hosting Connection is run and updated with Drupal out of the box
• encourage people on GoDaddy to rate Drupal highly

My web host uses CPanel and I get 2 TB of space with unlimited domains for just $144/year. CPanel comes with Fantastico, which is the only way I've been able to get Drupal of any type working so far, but I can only install 6.2 that way because that is what Fantastico uses (at this time).

I would like to learn CMS and graduate from Dreamweaver so I can become a more valuable webmaster. But I seem to be caught up in installation SNAFUs and certainly need to upgrade and have the option to use other versions of Drupal.

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.

Hello

I have set up an aggressive static page caching system using Boost module, which I modified to build gzip compressed pages to speed up load times and be able to serve more pages in less time at cuentosparadormir.com. The system works fine with just a few thousand users in a typical shared hosting account, as the content is oriented mainly to anonymous users. Of course javascript and css files are aggregated and compressed (using smartcache module).

Have anyone tried a similar approach? what do you think the limits of such a set up could be, and what should be the next bottleneck I will face for these kind of sites? do you propose any other configuration to create a high performance drupal site in a shared hosting account?