Hi,

I'm interested in knowing what most Drupal Users look for the most when searching for a hosting company, besides the usual disk space, bandwidth and price of course. It is always interesting to know what goes behind the thinking of drupal users when looking for new hosting so we can add additions to our hosting services as well!

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NikLP’s picture

Make sure your host is already running some Drupal sites!

I've got on a host that didn't have any running as yet and I'm having a lot problems with bottlenecks in the DB and processor.
This will most likely get resolved, but you can save yourself a lot of heartache by trying out the loading speeds of the sites that are already running on their server(s).

Christefano-oldaccount’s picture

edited 18-Feb-2008: I no longer recommend SustainableWebsites.

actdigital’s picture

Is the rarest component of a web host these days.

seanray’s picture

Easy to use Control Panel which will allow you to maintain Database, and conduct some routine maintenance tasks for your Drupal application

- An easy to use to tool to create MySQL or PostgreSQL database and grant the access.

-phpMyAdmin or phpPgAdmin to manipulate the data in the database, execute the backup or restore tasks to the data.

-An editor to modify the Cron job of the system. There are many tasks need to run regularly. A permission to change the Cron file will be very helpful for the Drupal webmasters

-Privilege to change the access permission of the file and directory.

Very fast connection speed to the database. Many web hosting providers haven't optimized the connection speed between web server and database server, which cause Drupal run very slowly. This feature you will only know after installing Drupal in their environment.
Reliable web hosting service provider with courteous and professional customer support. As an CMS web site, nothing can be more important than a stable environment.

Reliable web hosting service provider with courteous and professional customer support. As an CMS web site, nothing can be more important than a stable environment.