Who do you guys host with?

I have been using Verio now for about seven years, and I've been using Drupal on one of their virtual private servers now for about two.

They are not cheap; however, their support is very good and you get a lot of flexibility. Their virtual server setup still does sometimes change the way things need to be done, but much less so now than a few years ago.

FWIW, I haven't been able to get mod_rewrite and clean URLs working with them, either.

I'd recommend TekAdvantage.com. They're a small company but offer spectacular support (see their forums for evidence).

Or, of course, you could host with us, www.PhiloxeniaWeb.net :-)

I know a few people that use Open Source Host and have setup a couple of Drupal sites with them for others (I self host). I've always thought them a good choice because of their expertise with and dedication to open source CMS's. They will install one for free as part of account setup and they run opensourceCMS, probably the best place for demos of open source CMS's.

I'm also running off of 1And1 and I setup clean URLs. I don't remember having any problems with it, but looking at my root .htaccess file it seems like the only change I made was the RewriteBase, e.g.:

# Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory
# and the rewrite rules are not working properly:
#RewriteBase /drupal

...became...

# Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory
# and the rewrite rules are not working properly:
RewriteBase /

As for hosting alternatives, I've had excellent service from 8-95.com. $8.95 for 6 months of hosting and 50MB space. Great for personal sites.

I have 2 Drupal-powered sites at 1and1, and they supply some nice services. I just started using them last month, so I will see how it goes as to whether I keep using them. You are obviously already familiar with them.

I also have 2 other sites, one Drupal-powered, the other with custom PHP code (soon to be Drupalized), at another host, and this host is my favorite for great service: www.pajunas.com

Clean URLs work perfectly out of the box at Pajunas. MySQL/PostgreSQL, PHP, Webdav and e-mail included. They may be a small company, but they host in a world-class datacenter (DSL.net/VISI.com), so they've got great connectivity and reliability.

I am using 1and1 myself ( http://www.dillonsdomain.com ), and have managed to get clean urls working. There's a pretty good selection of how-tos and other helpful drupal-related info on the 1and1 support board. The board URL is:

http://s88567960.onlinehome.us/forums/index.php?act=idx

I found help on getting imagemagick, magic quotes, and clean urls operational from the posts on the forum.

I simply followed the instructions for activating clean URLs:

Go to your site config admin page.
Select CleanURL support enabled.
Hit save.

If I recall correctly, because my Drupal installation is within a subdirectory of the root (/home), the trick with clean urls is to edit .htaccess to reflect this. In my case,

#RewriteBase /drupal

had to be changed to:

RewriteBase /

I also addressed the magic quotes problem by simply creating a php.ini file with the following contents and placing it in my Drupal subdirectory (/home in my case):

magic_quotes_gpc=off

Overall, after discovering the support board, my experience with 1and1 has been very positive. You might want to try posting on the support board if my suggestions above do not work for you. I have found the moderator to be very responsive, and the community very helpful.

For the sake of full disclosure: I am using their free (for 3 years) professional hosting package. However, if their service was bad, I would say so without hesitation.

I hope this helps.

I use PEHosting and I'm very happy with them. Their prices are great and their support is excellent. I had 3 separate accounts, which I just changed to a single reseller account.

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I thought everyone had a DSL line, a RedHat box, used dynamic dns (dyndns.org) and hosted their own site. I am not trying to be silly, I really thought that.

I'm using 1&1. Have clean urls working, refer to the above comments to get them working.

After reading this thread I've discovered that clean URL's work on my own sites too. Hosted on Box. I've found their tech support helpful too, FWIW.

adrinux
adrinux@ntlworld.com

Oyster River Networks provides excellent service at solid prices -- http://oyster.net/

my hosting company offers this:

unlimited php and mysql
100 MB disk space, 2000 MB Bandwidth
unlimited pop3 emails, subdomains, ftp accounts, etc
monthly pay : $1.99/month

hackerhosting.com

I have had accounts with several places....

http://Tekadvantage.com Still there. Great service. Small company but in a top data center.

http://Site5.com I have had my main account there since 97. Never left em, and I highly recommend them.

I have also had accounts at flexihosting.net, budgethosting.com, powweb.com. Not bad, but eventually something comes up, and having great service the one time you need it is awesome.

If you aren't headed for a dedicated box, contemplate site5.com (They also have a fantastico installer for Drupal) They also use NetAdmin which I like better than CPanel.

Terry Adams
http://ElectricOcean.com/67/ (Not Drupal yet)
"Mini Painting News and Updates"
http://Selectress.com (a drupal driven site)

I am with Pair since 8 years now. Never had any technical problems or serious downtime and if you need support, they usually react within 24 hours. The performance of their web- and database servers is good and they have a good account control interface with all your settings. Pair is also supporting various open source projects.

If my website traffic increases a lot, then the next step would be a dedicated server in a rack at a local provider.

I recommend Fluid Hosting or Quadra Hosting (the latter was set up by a founder of the former, who is himself a keen PHP developer). They're not the cheapest around, but they are always willing to install extra PHP modules or other libraries if it's missing on the server - something other hosting companies I have dealt with have been unwilling to do.

I also wouldn't consider a host who didn't supply ssh access - it may be less secure (someone with know-how on a weakly set up server can access your files) but for sheer ease of maintaining sites and making quick changes nothing can beat it!

Dedicated/VPS would be nice, but is a bit pricy for me. I still am shopping around for other hosts, as more bandwidth/disk space and unlimited domains for the same/less price would be very useful (small clients take up such a small bit of space it's a shame not to be able to host lots of domains on one account!)

I've had fairly good luck running my sites on a virtual server at http://jvds.com/ (formerly known as http://65535.net/). Their servers start around $20/mo, and you can add hardware ala carte. With root access on a Linux or BSD system, you can do just about whatever you want with your server. They even have support for your OS, so even though you're root, you're not completely out in the cold if something goes wrong.

I'm too much of a control freak to not have root access, so this arrangement works great for me.

I've recently looked into PHP hosting sites, and some have already been listed, but here's a few that I saw:

http://pair.com/
http://dreamhost.com/
http://phpwebhosting.com/

It's nice to see others mentioning Dreamhost. I'm hosting two Drupal sites, a Mambo site, a gallery site and a static site with Dreamhost. (The one linked below is my first Drupal site.) Personally I love these guys. They're fast, solid, well supported, running on open source servers, and pretty seasoned in dealing with the kinds of things a popular site can face. When I was deciding on the first leap into a CMS, I discovered that they do not support mod_perl in shared hosting plans, so that decided me to forget Scoop for the moment and try Drupal, and now I'm not looking back.

If you do go with DH, something specific to Drupal installation: Be sure to disable PHP-CGI in your webpanel. My first installation ended up being a nightmare with their CGI global. But I've had no problems running as an Apache module. You do your MySQL setup in the webpanel (allow an hour or so for the setup to "take" on the system), but you do the actual db install via ssh or phpMyAdmin. The user forum there is kind of quiet, but there are a couple of threads with specific info for the SQL part of Drupal installation. Their knowledgebase is quite informative.

$20/month gives me 7 domains, oodles of subs, e-addies, unlimited aliasing, unlimited mysql dbs, unlimited conueries, tons of webspace and enough bandwidth to handle just about anything, though I've not been slashdotted, so there's that unknown. (No, I'm not an owner. But if you go with them, please tell them mediagirl sent you. If you need install tips for DH, let me know. I'll be happy to help however I can.)

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mediagirl.org

TMLP (Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant). They're a local power company who expanded to internet service around the time of AOL 2.0. When fiber started coming out they laid it around town before the lawsuits were filed against public municipalities running ISPs, so they are grandfathered into the system. I have almost unlimited bandwidth (not quite but not enough people visit my sites to make it an issue) and their support is awesome. Cheap fiber access ($170~ a month for way to much bandwidth) plus really good support The server is my own and is a little on the slow side since I can't afford a new one. I piggyback on a client's access so that's why I have access. I recommend looking into local municipalities if you have to oppurtunity, they generally treat you better and are often on a first name basis with customers. Plus, if they're not doing what you'd like, you can vote them out! Unfortunately the industry has successfully lobbied against this in many states. Remember, running your own server is great, but if it breaks, you can't blame it on anyone else.

I've been with Nexcess.net for a couple years now and love them.

I have found BlueWho to a great overall solution for hosting.

I find their greatest strength is the amazingly fast responses to any questions. All my questions have been responded to within 10 minutes and often far less. This is not uncommon given responses by other BlueWho users on their publicly available forums. An example of their great support is that they moved all my sites from my previous provider as part of their standard service. More on my experiences with BlueWho can be found in the linked article provided.
BlueWho and Hosting Search Article

It does. I have confirmed this you just needed to update the RewriteBase command.

They may not be a big host but their packages are great:

5gb Space
20gb Bandwidth
Unlimited E-mails
Unlimited Addon Domains
Unlimited SubDomains
Unlimited FTP Accounts
Unlimited MySQL DBs
Unlimited E-mail Forwards
Unlimited E-mail Responders

and cPanel 9, cron etc

They also have mod_rewrite and ability to install Droopal though Fantastico

and thats for $3 a month!!!

Hi just bought some space at EuroVPS. A Virtual Server, powered by Virtuozo and Plesk. 15GB of space, unlimited databases and subdomains, 400GB traffic and best of all, I can configure the server the way I want/need it.

https://www.eurovps.com/vps/

I chose the more expensive VPS300 because I want to be able to run java-applications.

I installed drupal from cpanel, we have cheep deals for space/bw. Drupal works fine here with clean urls etc. Cron jobs too.
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We use Drak.net and I'd highly recommend them.

Xeriom.NET (http://xeriom.net/) are ideally suited to host the Drupal platform for the UK market.

A working install of Druapl running on our servers can be found at http://geek-syndicate.org/

If you'd like to ask any questions please don't hesitate to email me; my email address is included in my signature below.
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