shared hosting

Hi guys,
I figured this is probably the best place to discuss Drupal 7 performance for sites in shared hosting environment.

I installed a D7 site on godaddy servers the other day and am puzzled with my page load times. Most significantly it seems that latency is the biggest problem but as I am not necessarily the most knowledgeable on that subject I'd like to get some opinions from other members.

I did all I could to improve my site and it scores 95 with page speed and 91 with Yslow. One would expect a pretty fast site with those scores right? But page load speeds are rather on the slow side.

Hej!

Jag sitter just nu och letar efter ett bra och prisvärt hostingalternativ för en ny drupalsite jag ska sätta upp. Det ska bli lite av en community, med profilfunktioner, "se mig på kartan", forum, organiska grupper med mera.

Jag tittar just nu på två intressanta alternativ:

Manufrog - shared hosting - ~250 MB PHP-minne enligt supporten, mellan 150 och 450 kronor per år för lite olika utrymmen och trafik.

Glesys - Cloud VPS - skalbart - 256 MB PHP-minne, cirka 100 - 120 kronor i månaden.

Vad säger ni om detta?

It may be due to changes that were done on Godaddy servers but in essence, the new version of openpublish (1.7.0) will not install normally on Godaddy.
The reason I say it may be due to changes was that I originally was able to install OP 1.6.* without making any changes to php.ini but an an attempt to upgrade to the new version led to some issues:

Hello Everyone,

I am newbie to drupal and i am assigned one task to create and manage Multisite with drupal. Now i have found few resources at
http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/install/multi-site
http://drupal.org/node/290768

but problem is we have shared hosting. We can not make any changes in Apache configuration file. Does anyone have solution for this ?

I want to make sites like following with different database and modules/themes.
www.mysite.com <- master site
www.mysite.com/site1 <- sub site's
www.mysite.com/site2

Version of Drupal is 6.x.

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?