Hosting support

These forums have been incredibly useful to me so I thought I would contribute this. Maybe somebody else will find this helpful.

I was a Bluehost customer for over a year. My two cents are that Bluehost is good for a certain type of customer, bad for another.

The pros are it was cheap and reliable for my static content sites. When I say static content, I'm referring to brochure-like sites with an amount of nodes that don't increase much day-to-day.

I started to noticing the cons as I one of my sites grew. The site involved forums which demand considerably more CPU power than a site with content that remains largely static.

Even though I worked hard to streamline Drupal and the site as much as possible (turning off statistics, views, etc.), we hit Bluehost's CPU ceiling very quickly. While Bluehost offers unlimited bandwidth, if offers very limited CPU. My site slowed to an absolute crawl.

I realized that I needed to upgrade to dedicated hosting but had to work with Bluehost while I got things sorted out. I tried to work with their tech support to make some improvements to the PHP settings.

Bluehost tech support was always friendly and prompt, but I did not feel like they were very knowledgeable. I am hardly a hosting expert, but I felt like many times I was talking to somebody who knew less than me.

I'm looking at changing my sites to a hosting plan that supports multisite as it's getting tedious to update ten sites with every new release of Drupal.

BlueHost looks very impressive to me. Can anyone tell me if they allow multisite or if it can be configured for multisite on the plan that is advertised above.

http://bluehost.com/tell_me_more.html

Thanks,
Mark C.

Hi all,

My current hosting suxx :-(

memory limits and security limitations makes impossible to have drupal with blogging API from mobile phone.

What I need is
- linux
- SSH + SFTP
- drupal support
- xmlrpc working (I do not want to hack php code forever)

What would you recommend guys?

-Regards,
Andrei

The context :
We have a platform Drupal 5.X, 2 front servers and 1 mysql server.

This site handles content (videos, audios, editorials) for a closed population (Intranet).

The problem is :
The site works fine, but several times a day, we have very strong delays (several minutes to publish simple content) without any explanation.

After analysis :
- The servers are working properly
- The network did not slow down

However, the MySQL Server shows Locked queries.

Hi

I am trying to cache my drupal installation with squid, but I am having a difficult time with the css and js.

Looks like drupal is appending a '?[random number or letter]' to the url, even if I haven't touched the css/js files, like this

Hi,

I've just taken some shared hosting space which lets me had addon domains etc to all me to sort of resell. By "Adding on" a domain and pointing it to a folder of the root of the hosting space you get the desired effect. New domain name pointing to its own area on a shared package.

Trouble is, my main, primeary domain name points to the route of the site where the mentioned "Other sites" folders are. To install drupal on there means I'll have a load of folders on the root of drupal... not good really.