Posted by pdcarto on May 20, 2009 at 7:35pm
I'm looking to deploy my first Drupal client's site in the next month or two, and I'm trying to weigh the merits of various hosting options. I'm thinking that a managed VPS would be smart, since I'm far from expert in server management. But I'm not sure that is sufficient - if I run into the kind of broken Drupal login problem that I had on my Site5 development instance, I'm not sure server management support is going to be able to deal with that. Are there Drupal shops that will essentially just act as a very specialized hosting service, offering all the usual services with the addition of being prepared to step in when I screw something up?
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Hi - I use two places and
Hi - I use two places and are very happy with both:
http://totalchoicehosting.com/ (resellert plan http://totalchoicehosting.com/)
and for more heavy duty a VPS plan here: http://www.powervps.com/
Like Rick I too use two
Like Rick I too use two different plans.
I have several drupal 6 sites at http://hostgator.com. They have recently enabled MySQL Innodb.
For unmanaged VPS I use http://slicehost.com
WorkHabit
Researching the right hosting provider for my project, I came across a company called WorkHabit (http://www.workhabit.com/).
They seem to supply what you're looking for, though I have not used their services (they are a top candidate so far in my research), so I obviously cannot judge the quality of their offering.
If any of you have conducted business with WorkHabit, I'm assuming people like pdcarto@drupal.org and yours truly would appreciate your input.
In my work with the Drupal Design Camp, I've found
a handful of companies with some interesting offers for hosting. You can see them at http://boston.design4drupal.org/sponsors. I just finished a profile for WebEnabled, though they are just coming out of beta, they are focusing on providing developers and designers a free development and hosting for up to three instances of drupal, and other apps. Worth a check out, especially since it's free.
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Drupal Hosting
I use GoDaddy for everything. They make everything easy to install and administer. I use WordPress for one client and am learning Drupal for another, all installed via GoDaddy. Their tech support is superb, 24/7 and they always answer even my newbie questions with a smile!
Unix access without power/scalability?
I started out as a Drupal developer with midPhase hosting my own web sites.
Now I want to set up a RealChat server for my site composersvillage.org to use, and I discover I can't do it with my shared hosting plan. [I wrote a tiny glue module for letting users of a Drupal site click a link to chat]. And I've also been using drush locally and would love to be able to use that for my hosted sites - it would save me quite a bit of time over what I do now when I need to upgrade modules.
Upgrading to a VPS plan through the same provider would give me the access I need but would cost $20 per month instead of $7 per month. And I am not looking for power and scalability -- this is just for my own small sites. Any thoughts? Is $20/month just the going rate for a web host with Unix access? I hope not, but I just do not know.
Shared hosting was never
Shared hosting was never meant for Drupal sites with crazy modules/features like the one you're trying to do. So yes, a VPS that will allow you to be able to customize what you want/need to run your site is required.
Good Drupal hosts
You should definitely check out
GreenGeeks
Hostmonster
Both of them are cPanel based. Depending on which one you like, you should have no problems.
Geengeeks should be greedgeeks
They come across so nice at the beginning. Truth is they are a bunch of liars. To add injury to insult they serious limit your your server resources so if you want to host a site with as little as 200 visitors per day be prepared to get an upsell on resources or live with server errors due to the limitations you have. I've built dozens of Drupal sites, hosted with many different providers, and let me tell you that these guys are, BY FAR, the worst. As far as support, if you like canned responses and a footer with an ad for an upsell then you'll love these guys. And finally, if you want to back up and move from these goofballs, be prepared... they have disabled backups in cpanel. What a colossal joke!!!