Posted by Tonerdrupal on February 18, 2010 at 4:25pm
Does anyone know if there are any hosting providers in Toronto / GTA that 'specialize' in Drupal hosting?
Does anyone know if there are any hosting providers in Toronto / GTA that 'specialize' in Drupal hosting?
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got one
http://www.netfirms.com/
looks decent to me. They are east of 404.
Not sure if they are here?
I was going to mention NetFirms as well, but after the EIG buyout I am not sure if they still have their stuff here in Toronto anymore. I could be wrong.
You could check out http://www.greengeeks.ca, http://www.hostpapa.com or http://www.cartika.com, from what I have seen have stuff in Toronto.
I would strongly advise
I would strongly advise against hosting with netfirms for anything other than a personal website or development environment.
At a glance they seem like a pretty decent host, but I have hosted multiple drupal websites on almost every different account they offer and the outcome always ends up the same.
The client complains about random server errors. speed, uptime and usually wants off the netfirms server and onto something new within the first few months.
So buyer beware, there are better hosts out there!
I second that
I moved one of my sites off of there because it was always slow and kept getting tons of errors. Actually the site was down for over two hours one Friday night and Saturday night for one weekend. Prime Time!! My favorite error was that the mySQL server had "gone away" :) I called them and asked where it went; that is after I was on hold for over 30 minutes listening to this most annoying message from a woman with a lisp! I also found their max_user_connections setting at 10 to be a little too tight.
I've since went with CanadianWebHosting (my fourth hosting company) and the site is always lighting fast and not a single error in over two months. Their max_user_connections is set at 25.
then 404 it is... http 404
Good to know guys. Thanks. I was thinking to open several accounts with them. Anything else than CanadianWebHosting?
We have used Fused Networks
We have used Fused Networks hosting for a few medium sized drupal sites that we have launched over the past few months.
http://www.fusednetwork.com/
Great support and they are based out of Toronto.
We have also launched some larger scale government initiative drupal websites with Canada Web Hosting. Overall they offer a pretty solid service, although I think our particular box was having hardware issues for a while, never the less the site has seen some heavy traffic and serves up lots of media without any hiccups.
Would love to know about any other GTA based hosting solutions.
why GTA hosted?
Why GTA hosted? Are you looking just for local support or is there some reason the hardware needs to be located in Toronto?
My clients are mostly in Eastern Ontario, some are hosted in Ontario, some are not. As well, many who think they are hosted locally turn out to be third-party hosted elsewhere (talk about nightmares for developers).
When it's my choice I use Media Temple in California. I know they aren't on the drupal.org list, but that's 'cause they don't have an up-to-date auto-install. I install manually so that's not important to me.
I use Hostpapa for my sites.
I use Hostpapa for my sites. I currently have 5 Drupal sites hosted with them and never have any problems. They have unlimited bandwidth, unlimited add on domains and sub domains and allow 100 sql databases per account. They are located in oakville (and so are the servers).
Hostpapa
Have you a shared code installation on HostPapa?
I'm trying to install several domains with the same code base (on HostPapa). Each site works correctly if accessed via the primary domain (by renaming the sites/secondarydomain.com directory to sites/primarydomain.com) but I get errors if I try to access via the secondary domain. The error is that I get the home page with no theme (pretty ugly) ... and when I click on a link I get either a 404 error or a modified URL with /cgi-sys/defaultwebsite.com appended to the URL (note I am going by memory about the actual text appended but it was something like that.)
HostPapa will not help with "installations of 3rd party applications" so unless I get a fix I am going to have to ask for my money back. Has anyone got a shared code installation to work with HostPapa?
Multi Domains
The only way around this issue is to create DOMAIN ALIAS's for the secondary domains.
This shifts the domain to the main domain on recognition.
We do this all the time in our hosting environment and offer it to all our hosting clients.
Touch base if you would like to move your site.
Regards
Marc Behiels
I may not understand what you
I may not understand what you are saying but it sounds like these aliases are not separate sites. I do not want the domain to be shifted to the main domain. I want the "secondary" domains to access different settings.php and databases. That is what the shared codebase I have on another host does without any problems.
Ack - Sorry My misunderstanding
So you want a single drupal install with multiple sub-sites (with domains directed to those) so you can keep the core drupal updated and affect all the sub sites?
As discribed here?
http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/install/multi-site
This requires admin access to you VPS/host to set up sub domains and then DNS to redirect those sub domains.
Again - do this regularly.
Marc
Perhaps we are talking about
Perhaps we are talking about different things ... I am not talking about sub-domains. I am talking about full domains. With my previous host all I had was set up /sites sub-directories - where the sub-directory name was the same as the domain name - no messing around with sub-domains. (Of course, I also had to change my DNS entries to point to the hosting site.)
This thread has probably
This thread has probably already gone on too long, so I'd recommend you try an appropriate drupal forum. You're probably leaving out some important details ... the only hint I might have is that you talk about renaming directories in your initial post and how that messes up your theme: it's often the case if you move things around, Drupal can't find your theme and/or module directories where it thought they were (the full path locations get 'cached' in the system table), but it'll find them again if you go to the admin/build/modules and admin/build/themes pages and resave. Other than that, your setup sounds like it should work.
This will be my last post ...
This will be my last post ... but if it was a caching problem it prevented me from going to any of the admin modules to rebuild caches etc. I could not get past the first page.
Renaming the directories did not mess up my theme. If I renamed the sites/example.com folder to sites/default the web site was totally functional. If I rename it back to sites/example.com I cannot get past the first page.
But I will not pursue this any more (here)
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stard dot hosting
i have used star dot hosting ( http://www.stardothosting.com ) for about a year now for my site and i'm very impressed at the quick response times for all my support requests , on average of about 10-15 minutes to get any response!
thats somewhat of a rarity in my experience :)