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Hi: I use the OurMedia.org site to embed audio clips into blog posts and the site hasn't been working for many hours. I'm wondering when it will be back up? Does it go down often? How long before it's up and working again? Thanks! Best, Amy

Hi,
I'm looking hosting providers for a drupal site in India. I searched around but did not found Drupal specific user experiences reports.
Please help me to find out.
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Sharique

I was just uploading a module (not yet activated) on my site www.forniture-alberghiere.net hosted on very cheap VPS of wwwversaweb.com when I go in all pages a mountain of errors, generally all to the same line, and after about 10-20 mnutes afte tell this to techical support all is disappeared totally again after about 3 hours. What is happened? Do you think that my files and db are lost or not?

Warning: Table 'watchdog' is read only query: INSERT INTO watchdog (uid, type, message, variables, severity, link, location, referer, hostname, timestamp) VALUES (1, 'php', '%message in %file on line %line.', 'a:4:{s:6:\"%error\";s:12:\"user warning\";s:8:\"%message\";s:291:\"File './fornitur_i/locales_source.MYD' not found (Errcode: 30)\nquery: SELECT s.lid, t.translation, s.version FROM locales_source s LEFT JOIN locales_target t ON s.lid = t.lid AND t.language = 'it' WHERE s.source = 'Address' AND s.textgroup = 'default'\";s:5:\"%file\";s:81:\"/home/fornitur/public_html/forniture-alberghiere.net/modules/locale/locale.module\";s:5:\"%line\";i:365;}', 3, '', 'http://www.forniture-alberghiere.net/admin/build/modules/list', 'http://www.forniture-alberghiere.net/horeca/arredamento-mobili', '213. in /home/fornitur/public_html/forniture-alberghiere.net/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 128

Are Cron and SMTP required in Drupal?

And what about the Drupal Hosting, can I have FTP that I have the control on my page and that I can add modules and themes in the FTP?

Please help me!

Dear

I'm sorry for my bad english and strange question.

At this moment I'm makeing a personal website, the last 3 days I read a lot about Drupal and I will try with this CMS.
This is not the problem, the problem is where can I find a good and free host?

I will upload Drupal by FTP, because it's mine installation.
I will have a host where I can upload the package but where I have min. 500MB diskspace and 1GB bandwitch (or something like that).

Off course I need the typical requirements for Drupal (PHP, MySQL (2-3), ASP, HTML, CSS, CRON)

we are going to launch a social networking site where we hope to gain 5 million users. obviously there is a ramp up period, so immediately that kind of support is not necessary but we hope to be there fairly quickly.

can i get your recommendations on what kind of server hosting is recommended for:
1) 0 - 100K users?
2) 100 - 500K users?
3) 500K+ users?

keep in mind we will need to ramp up as the user base increases but dont want to shoot ourselves in the foot from the get-go.