Hosting support

As part of our new service offerings we are offering a free month of service to Drupal Forum members.

Our core offerings are all based on VPS hosting. This allows users to start on a VPS which is not much more than a shared host, but then easily work up the ladder as higher end plans host fewer and fewer customers.

We own and operate all of our own hardware. Each VPS based server is fully managed.

My host, 247-host.com (skip them in your hunt), has been unable to provide me with adequate uptime or support; the best they could offer is upgrading my plan. Their new (and as yet unpublicized) VPS plan was too expensive, both for me and in comparison with other hosts. I finally decided it was time to get serious with finding a new hosting company. This has been a very "interesting" experience, so I thought I'd share it with you.

I sent the following to each hosting contact:

Hello I plan to use a VPS for my new drupal site.I am not sure if that is the best option for me and would love your (expert) suggestions ..One of the primary reason for opting for a VPS is that I would want to learn as my application grows so that I can manage
my site by myself ...

Background:

I have a simple Drupal site (first one) on my computer and think it is time to move it to the outside world.I have limited Linux and php experience but I think I can get around doing my stuff.

I have the following questions...

I will like to see the bosses of drupal contribute to this topic as it will give alot of confidence to readers.We all know that even though drupal is an open source project and runned by volunteers,there is always a team leader,supervisor and or an overall boss.
I am looking for a friendly and reliable drupal web host with 99% uptime guarantee.I have a couple of sites(3) and three sub domains with my present hosting provider and I am looking to move.I need some advice on this please.
I will take recommendations from teamleaders and supervisors very seriously.

Edited by: VeryMisunderstood; Comments set to Read Only

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I deal with several hosting sites one them being Dreamhost, which graciously host my non profit for free. at first I decided on joomla, but i decided to put nearly all my sites with Drupal so I could get better and more efficient at how a cms works. I did notice that when they offer automatic scrips to install software Drupal was not there, and the drupal/dreamhost wiki has a rather sarcastic/snarky attitude about installing it. I am planning on running a fairly active site, although catered to a local audience.