Hosting support

hi

I am having trouble enabling clean urls with drupal. I have read quite a lot of article but still no luck. My hosting provider runs on windows and i have asked them to install isapirewrite which they have. this is the rules that i am using:

# Various rewrite rules.

RewriteEngine on

# If your site can be accessed both with and without the 'www.' prefix, you
# can use one of the following settings to redirect users to your preferred
# URL, either WITH or WITHOUT the 'www.' prefix. Choose ONLY one option:
#
# To redirect all users to access the site WITH the 'www.' prefix,
# (http://example.com/... will be redirected to http://www.example.com/...)
# adapt and uncomment the following:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
# RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
#
# To redirect all users to access the site WITHOUT the 'www.' prefix,
# (http://www.example.com/... will be redirected to http://example.com/...)
# uncomment and adapt the following:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
# RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

# Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory or in a
# VirtualDocumentRoot and the rewrite rules are not working properly.

We're looking to develop an internal faculty/staff portal on Drupal for a state-wide college (scattered centers). I believe a VPS is our best route so I keep hearing, but I'm still not certain of the advantages/disadvantages of VPS vs. Dedicated (or I even see Semi-Dedicated)? We obviously need 24/7 uptime and security is a must. We're also looking for a host that manages security, updates, and optimization, ideally on the Drupal end as well.

I just got a VPS plan but my site is not open to the public yet. I am the only one using it but I runs out of memory all the time when browsing the site and testing to make sure the links work fine. I had to increase my memory from 96MB to 128MB but no luck. This is my memory usage from the free -m command

Like most folks here I find it very difficult to get a reliable, moderately priced hosting company. You want my business? Here are a few thoughts to help you out. I can't afford crack companies like rackspace, so I am not talking to you. But, I don't expect absurd prices for impossible specs either. I want something that is obviously deliverable for the price quoted, with room for reasonable support (but not 'fanatical' - I am prepared to do some work for myself to keep the cost down).

So here it is:

1) I don't want absurd lack of limits - I want limits that make sense. And AFAICT, those are: disk space, bandwidth, processor time, and memory. Maybe particular services that involve effort in setting up. Any others? Please let me know if I have left anything out.

This is hardly a Drupal question (sorry) but I'm not sure where else to ask it so here goes:

I'm working on building a Drupal intranet for a department at my school. Those who will use the system currently connect to the internet and other services over a wired connections. We have no control over that system what-so-ever. It uses DHCP to auto assign everything (ip, gateway, dns etc).

For a number of reasons we do not want to put the site on the web or on the university infrastructure. As a result we do have total control over the server.

Hello all,

I've been with my host for 3 years, and now they're saying I'm using too much CPU and RAM (over 6% daily). They're suggesting I move to a semi-dedicated or dedicated server, at $75 or $200 (respectively) per month. This seems to me like an awful lot for my site (plus they haven't been great on a couple of other issues too).

My site gets about 300 visits / 7,000 hits / uses 60 MB Bandwith per day, average.

There are nearly 10,000 nodes.

I think I need a new host.

What I need to know is:

1. what's a great host for a Drupal site?