Hosting support

I'm a volunteer with a small UK charity (all volunteers, no staff) that is looking for some better hosting for our website. It is a busy website with forums and user created content and is only going to get busier:

Our website logs for Jan 2008:
Unique visitors: 3087
Visits: 6574
Page impressions: 465796
Hits: 719548
Bandwidth: 2.95 GB

I expect this to increase steadily as we near a number of big events in the summer with a peak use in the summer.

We outgrew a bluehost hosting account very quickly, and we moved to a UK vps solution (partly because they offered a 50% discount for registered charities). However, I've experienced continuous problems with server loads going crazy thanks to processes on other VPSs (oh yes!!!) and our site is offline for at least 30 mins a day, and I'm tired of the *&$% I keep getting fed by their support guys.

We are looking for a company that could offer us cost effective hosting:

1) Hosting for the main website that ensures reliability and server space that will grow as we grow. At the moment we only need round a gigabyte of storage, but I would expect this to rise over time. However, we do need a reasonably powerful machine to cope with Drupal. A VPS is a minimum so that I can configure the server to my liking.

Seems to me they are overselling their service i have had two accounts with drupalvaluehosting (one on Texas server and other on Seattle) for over 2 months. Ok now here is my issue. 2 months ago everything was great speed was good downloads from my site were around 500kb/sec 600kb/sec (last few weeks I'm lucky to get over 30kb/sec and in the evening around 3 or 4am i get 150kb/sec whooo! i know it isn't my routing to the data center because i own 2 dedicated's at softlayer and 2 at layeredtech which surprisingly max out my 6mbit connection on 1 thread.

Hi everyone,

I'm in the process of upgrading my website from Drupal 4.7 to Drupal 5 and giving it a general overhaul. I'm going to have to move hosts because my current hosting company does not support mod_rewrite module and the ability to use local .htaccess file.

SITE INFO:
* The site -- an online music magazine -- is UK based, but 70% of our readers are US based.
* We get an estimated 50,000 unique visitors monthly but I'm hoping this will rise.
* I'm a Drupal novice -- if the hosting company makes changes to servers, which effects scripts and stuff, I will need to seek expert help to correct these
* We currently have just under 1000 nodes, although file size is fairly small for each.

HOSTING REQUIREMENTS:
* Good support (ideally 24 hour online)
* Who knows Drupal -- ideally a hosting company with formal ties to the Drupal Association or something.
* Whose servers can handle the traffic of a site like mine.
* I was initially thinking they would need to be UK based, but perhaps if the bulk of my traffic is from the US I should be thinking about a host over there? If so, good online support is vital.
* Reliability (!)
* Budget - less than £10 / $20 per month

Hello,

I've been extensively researching web hosts for the past few days, and I have read some good and bad stories about almost all of the them, including Bluehost and Hostgator. I personally am dumping Anhosting, which is generally very high rated. But I have to decide on someone, and no host will be perfect. I need a host that is:

I have six sites currently hosted by GoDaddy. Once I started using Drupal, I noticed that my sites load MUCH more slowly than they did when I just used static HTML pages. My hosting expires in July, and I want to move my sites over to a new host. I originally had Dreamhost in mind, but after doing further research I am leaning towards ANHosting. I want to know what the Drupal Community thinks about ANHosting.

Is ANHosting a good Drupal host? Please, can someone OTHER than John Forsythe give me a review. Thanks!

I have 6 Drupal sites running off a Godaddy hosting account. I've noticed that all my sites load really slow, even with caching and CSS aggregating turned on. My Godaddy hosting expires in July, and I'm thinking of moving all of my sites to Dreamhost, because I have read that they are excellent. I have a few questions about this transfer.

How would I transfer all my sites from Godaddy to Dreamhost? Do I have to download all the files, export the databases, then upload the files and import the databases, or is there an easier way?