Hosting support

Hi everyone!

I made the mistake of having my website hosted on GoDaddy, I registered my site through them and I thought I'd have them host it while I'm in the Drupal development phase. The thing is, the performance of the basic $5/month is awful, even for a single developer. It takes about 10 seconds to access anything with Drupal.

Is there such thing as Drupal friendly hosts? Sites optimized for running Drupal? Maybe a one click install of Drupal too (which Godaddy does support)?

I trust that you'll give me the best and most honest advice about this.

Running Mac OS 10.5.8
Trying to set up local host.
Have MAMP installed OK.
Configured root to folder name htdocs
File show up fine on my Mac directory under MAMP
with all my drupal 6.x files, etc, and a test index.html I put in to test.
When I navigate to http://localhost:8888/MAMP, MAMP shows up fine.
however I get a 404 page saying can't find any page I put in.

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Hi! I am troubleshooting my site being a resource hog on a shared server, and need to figure out the limits of drupal use on a shared server.

What is your experiance? I am getting timeouts at around 50 users simultaneously. I have tried to stop using all dev versions of modules and trying to improve my caching skills. I just need rto know what is the most users I can expect with an optimized drupal on a shared hosting server.

Thanks!

I have 3 Drupal sites that I have developed but I learned most of it by trial and error.

I recently decided to set up a localhost to try some things out, so
1) I copied all the files into the www folder on Wampserver
2) I backed up the database and copied it into mysql on wamp (I had to install php 5.2 and also create a username and password in mysql to match the one in the original database)

I now get the "site offline" page - it has the header and site name, so it must be accessing the database.

Hi, I allready finish to create my first drupal site and I wanna put in a host how can I export all to the host and make it work fine