Hello!
I'm thinking of moving a somewhat high traffic site off of a Verio VPS to LiquidWeb's Storm on Demand cloud hosting:
https://www.stormondemand.com/cloud-server/
I love the ability of our Verio VPS to scale up and down, but during high volume times the VPS isn't really enough.
I am interested to moving to Storm on Demand, and from googling I have found almost completely positive reviews. The few issues seem to be due to a slight downtime when scaling up/down and the inability to schedule scaling up/down. I have hosted dedicated & shared w/LiquidWeb before and was always impressed with their service & support (this was several years ago). Verio's support service & support used to be great, but has been getting noticeably worse over the past year.
So I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with installing & running Drupal (6) on SoD?
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any issues installing? with .htaccess, file permissions etc?
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performance good?
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uptime good?
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issues scaling up/down?
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and my main question, do you get the "could not allocate nodes" error that I hear is a big issue with the RackSpace cloud solution?
Answers to these, or any other first-hand experience with SoD would be greatly appreciated. I'm always surprised at how little info there seems to be on users running Drupal in the cloud.
Cheers & Thanks!
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Re: Storm On Demand from LiquidWeb
I see that this post is several months old, but I just came across it and wanted to let you know that I am using this service (2 years now) for my Drupal hosting and have had great experience with it. I have not had any issues with installs, nor have I even heard of the "could not allocate nodes" error, so I would say that it is definitely not an issue with Storm on Demand. With this service you are pretty much free to tweak any aspect/configuration of the server that you wish. The performance and up-time has been good and when I do speak with tech support, they will usually look through everything and let me know if they see anything that is set odd or could be optimized and ask if I would like for them to make any changes for me. Although their techs are not Drupal experts, I will give them an A for being very knowledgeable and helpful with everything on the server side. I don't use the scaling up/down feature often, but I do love the ability to clone the server easily and work on the clone when I am about to make any major changes to the site.
With all that said, I am also interested in knowing if anyone else is using Storm On Demand for their Drupal sites and what their experience has been as well.
I concur, SoD has been good
I concur, SoD has been good for Drupal. Their cPanel installs come tightly secured with modsec2/apf. The issue with scaling up/down involves data transfer, so the more data the longer the scaling. This is annoying, but tolerable; nice to have an easy scaling option, better if you don't need it often. Their support has been knowledgeable, responsive and dedicated.