Hosting support

First, I am not locked in to finding a hosting provider that provides Drupal-specific support: I am very open to configuring, installing and managing my own Drupal installation. I'm not a Linux guru, but am a quick study and not afraid of the command line. I understand some of the advantages of a provider with strong Drupal support, but am not convinced that is the only way to go.

I am working on a social networking site (aren't we all?) which may reach 10,000 registered users quickly (within 2-3 months). Expecting much more than that eventually, but for now those are the numbers I'm likely to have to deal with. I also want a service that will handle eventual growth and spikes. One feature is a weekly update email, and every member will get a registration / welcome email. My geographical location and user base will be in the USA: I assume a US-based provider is the way to go.

I am looking for a Virtual Dedicated Server hosting service that will handle the bandwidth with fast and consistent access, and the e-mail volume, at a reasonable cost. I have researched numerous reviews of hosting providers and have not found any that give me that "green light" feeling.

Hi all,

Ok, I am over to a VPS because I love speed and hate caching. But how to start and make optimal use of Drupals multisite capabilities? I have sites on Drupal 5, 6 and soon 7 and will probably upgrade them one at the time. Should I make a separate users for all different Drupal versions or just one and different hosting?

Idea is to keep updating sites as easy as possible...

I know it's kind of basic, but would prefer some idea's of the people who had done this before instead of spending many hours figuring things out myself.

I'm running Drupal 6.14 at Servage, but I can't enable 'Clean URLs'. Servage is not much of a help, so I'm pretty much on my own with this problem, and since I'm a newb at Drupal and PHP, it would be very nice with a little help...

Thanks,

Marc.

Hello,

My client is wanting to host their Durpal, e-commerce site that we will be building on a server in house instead of using a professional hosting company. I have heard this is not a very good idea but need to convience them about that. Can a Drupal expert give me some points as to why we should not set up a server in house? If it can be successfully done, please also mention why and/or provide any information about the specs of the server needed, etc. The site will be quite big, some 1600 items sold online and pages rich functionality.

Thanks in advance

i'm a newbie in drupal and have been learning for the past month the problem is that im new in deployment also can one give me a detailed way of deploying onto a server

I am configuring a server setup specifically for shared hosting of Drupal sites. Just wanted to get some input of what you all think is needed or wanted in your servers?