By illusion4000 on

I'm looking a good VPS hosting for my Drupal 7 site.
It's not very big site with this modules:

  • chaos tools suite
  • meta tags
  • Backup and Migrate
  • Custom Breadcrumbs
  • Pathauto
  • SEO Checklist
  • Token
  • Panel nodes
  • Panels
  • Image CAPTCHA
  • Taxonomy Manager
  • ckeditor
  • Views
  • Views Slideshow
  • Views Slideshow: Cycle
  • Views UI
  • Forum+Advanced forum with autor pane
  • and a few modules for analitycs and social

Site with a forum and library of articles, about steam/atom/sovietpunk. In future a planned add a profiles creating and customize modules.

Site have 17 Gb traffic in a month now, 600 unique visitors /1400 views in a day. Planned up to 5000/more per day.

Now i stay in a hetzer.de, keyweb, linode.
And what is it a "cloud" hosting?

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If you don't want to do the server management yourself (which you probably don't unless that is within your experience), I'd recommend KnownHost - their VS2 should do you for now, and if the site grows more popular you have an easy upgrade path available to you. With their help you should be able to get that setup tweaked so that MySQL etc. is running well for your single site.

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illusion4000 commented

Thank you!

I can manadge server for myself. It's not a problem.

I don't understand about pricing.

Why Hetzer asks for 7-12 euros for VPS, while the other ask $19 - $25, even $60 for the lower/equal perfomance?

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix_vserver/vserver-produktma... - $170/year

http://www.maiahost.com/vps-hosting.html - $1600/year!

Not a very good example, but the pricing difference is almost ten times! Where is the trick?

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Per month for 1GB RAM setup: Hetzner = €12.90 == $16.65
Maiahost = $49.95.
Factor of 3.

I don't know why the difference. The only unmanaged VPS providers I've used are buyvm.net and hostigation.com. Both those are around the $13 per GB of RAM kind of price mark, so Maiahost seems overpriced to me.

Maiahost don't give much away in terms of their exact hardware configuration, but you need to look into all kinds of things with VPS host to make sure you're comparing apples and apples. Do they use RAID10? What port speed? What peering does the data-centre have? What service level are they willing to underwrite with a real refund? How much management / help do they give? Do they overload the nodes, or is the RAM / disk space that they specify really yours to use?

You're best off doing some careful research http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=103 or http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=104, as it's a crowded marketplace and there are some really good VPS hosts out there and some real clangers!

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illusion4000 commented

You are right

But it very big time to do a careful research.

Is it possible that such large community like Drupal the are, no have a real tested hosters for a middle sites?

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John_B commented

Linode is the best value for money in my experience. You may find that Cheap VPS + 1GB RAM and unlimited bandwidth (which you never use) is a lot slower than Quality VPS + 512MB RAM + very limited bandwidth. Going cheap can be a big mistake (I had a disastrous VPS from a very major hosting company who compete on price). However, some bargain VPSs do a reasonably good job, e.g. I am generally positive about PhotonVPS, although for my current needs I prefer to use Linode.

Also look at the backup facilities. Support quality? How fast do they recover from network outages? Do they have engineers on site round the clock? Do their engineers have the skills to react if a massive attack takes down almost their entire network (as happened at my hosting company)? etc. There are many factors. With managed servers the variation in price and quality is even bigger.

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tlamonia commented

My company offers VPS starting at $99/month http://www.hosting4biz.com. We also provide Drupal design and development services in the event you need an extra hand with your projects. Hope that helps!
-Todd

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jsimonis commented

My favorite has been LiquidWeb. I started there on a small VPS and then slowly moved up as I needed more memory and CPUs. Now I am on one of their Storm servers.

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jereoms commented

I have been looking for the same thing, a good VPS for hosting say 20 drupal websites with similar types of traffic that you expect. It seems like there is a gap in the market from the cheap $5/month shared hosting provider to the much more realistic service for small businesses at $50-$100/month. To me the perfect target price would be $20/month to include a service that would be powerful enough to satisfy the load we would need yet not require a full dedicated service. I'll eye this forum to see what others end up sharing.

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jsimonis commented

I know when I am looking for a web host for that many sites, I'm typically expecting to pay at least in the $50+ range - that's just over $2.50 per site. When I consider how much space, bandwidth, CPUs, and memory I'm needing for that many sites, $50-100 really isn't that much. Even with a number of my sites being hosted for free, I'm able to recoup the costs without charging my clients much at all.

Usually the $50-100 range will get you a VPS where you can have a large number of sites and is fully managed. A dedicated server is typically going to cost well over $100 a month.

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alex_shapka commented

We at Drupal Companion (http://drupion.com) provide all the listed features. We would gladly provide quality hosting to your website.

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sciacco commented

Prometeus is a long time hosting provider (since 1997). You can check the vps offers here:
http://www.prometeus.net/sito/VPS

and a specific drupal shared hosting here:
http://www.prometeus.net/sito/drupal-express

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seanray commented

Personally, I like Linode. We have 7 instances from them, so far so good. But for Linode, as it's unmanaged, you will need to learn how to manage VPS (or cloud server) by yourself.

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robinthoms2 commented

Check with vpswebserver.com, i have used their service and i would say they are best in vps field.their service and specially customer support is awsom!

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Jelmer85 commented

Haha
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HJulien commented

I've hosted (Managed VPS) with WiredTree.com since 2012 and I'm really satisfied with them. Their customer service is fast - like within 10 minutes fast. And they'll help you with everything in their power.

I tried Pantheon for something else recently and just yuck - lucky to get an answer within a day on their free developer plan. And rude too.

I've also had good luck with LiquidWeb on another project. Fast and thorough as well. They kept their cool with a big issue with the DNS namespaces while someone at the client's office lost theirs. They went beyond in that situation.

Hélène