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Hello Friends,
I'm running one site(domain.net).I want to set "test site" for this site(domain.org) with different database and different dns.how can I proceed in this case.I'm hurry about this one.Please

Asha

Hi

After a lot of search and contemplating upon my requirements, I have zeroed upon a few companies.

My requirements:
1. Shared Hosting for testing purposes but must have FFMPEG in their shared plan
2. A host that has a VPS, and if the need arises then I am allowed easy upgrade.

I run a drupal 5 site with 3000 - 5000 visits/day. This site was hosted on a reseller account, but a week ago i moved to a vps with 256MB ram. The drupal site has not a lot of modules and has aggressive cache enabled, so I thought the vps could handle it. I have no experience in managing a server, but i think the server usually behaved well, -top command result can be seen here:

http://i24.tinypic.com/70zucz.png

CPU usage is 0% and almost no swap memory is used.

But today the page was down and resources consumption was following:

top - 23:13:40 up 14:03,  1 user,  load average: 30.41, 31.61, 17.73
Tasks: 341 total,   1 running, 340 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.9% us,  1.2% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id, 97.9% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   2044896k total,  2030936k used,    13960k free,    14720k buffers
Swap:  4096524k total,  2986956k used,  1109568k free,   206912k cached

I guess that cpu load is very low, but memory usage is very high. At the same time I received various mail with cpsrvd failed @ Wed Nov 7 23:46:13 2007. A restart was attempted automagically. ( i receive this emails every day)

and this ssh message:

Broadcast message from root (Wed Nov 7 23:43:53 2007):

The rules of hosting are changing rapidly. It would be nice to compile a list of the top Drupal hosting companies without regard to space or bandwidth. These are secondary and often times unobtainable due to limits described in often vague and hard to find Acceptable Usage Policies (AUP) and Resource Usage Policies (RUP). It will take some serious detective work to actually get hard numbers and although I thought their numbers we're low, I must give Site5 credit for even posting hard numbers! Their RUP is somwhat hidden but it definitely has useful information about how far you can go before you can expect the dreaded "Site terminated for excessive CPU usage" message. If we all work together and share what we know we could have a valuable resource here.
Rules

Hi

I am new to the hosting activity with drupal (actually to any site). I have talked to a few hosting company supports about the possibility of hosting a site with them, but I do not know that am I asking the correct questions.

So I want to know what should I mention in my requirements from the hosting provider.

What I have been asking is:

1. Do you support Drupal sites. If yes then what version. (Generally they are having Fantastico, and the latest release has Drupal 5.1)

2. What version of PHP, Apache and Mysql are they using? (I believe PHP5 is essential, someone please mention the minimum requirements for Apache and Mysql)

3. Specifically I ask for "Crontab Management".

4. What administrative panels do they provide (like CPanel, Plesk etc.). If yes then what is the extra cost (if any).

5. Do they host the site as well as the databases on the same server? (Because I believe it is better on the same server)

6. Specifics that I require like FFMPEG etc. And if they do have the same, then what is the cost of installation or maintainance?

7. What happens in case I exceed their bandwidth limitation? Do they stop my site altogether or charge me extra ?

8. In case of VPS or Dedicated servers, are they 'managed' or 'unmanaged'.

I'm not a programmer, but I'm interested in having one of the Drupal themes hosted as a training site for my online company. Maybe someone would be kind enough to help with easiest and quickest simple hosting solution.

I have downloaded the theme and will I need the drupal application as well?