Hosting support

I wanted to propose an idea.

This idea originated from a major need. Even though we have such a great CMS..the benefits are not visible becoz most people host the sites with various hosts...who ill fit the need.
Hence Drupal seems to lack on performance and other factors.

Why not have a special hosting free for all Drupal sites. This has certain benefits.

Hello,

My company is redesigning a client's site and will be moving them to Drupal. The site currently gets up to 3,000 page views a day, and we anticipate that the new site will get closer to 5,000. Can shared hosting handle this with a little bit of room to grow, or should we plan on putting them on a VPS?

Thanks!

Hey everyone,
I am working on my first Drupal website and have (unfortunately) had some pain in the a55 experiences already.
I have read a lot of threads already but have no conclusive answers, so my questions are as follows..

1)Who is a good host for Drupal where the pages load FAST?
2)I have read that Dreamhost and Servage are good for Drupal site, is this true?, Is their hosting/database on the same server? (I read that seperate databases slow Drupal to snail pace)
3) Is Drupal just generally slow to load?

I've just moved a copy of a sister site from a dedicated server in China to a development server in my office in Hong Kong and plan to develop the site in a different direction on the development server and rebrand it.

I've copied the drupal folder from the server in China using ftp access and placed it in my xampp installation on the windows 2003 server in my office and put the drupal folder in htdocs. I've uploaded the database to MySql and changed the settings file to point to the database.

When i run the site on the development server everything looks fine - navigation works and content is all there. I can access admin and make changes to everything but when I try to access blocks I get this error message:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 77502 bytes) in C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\includes\theme.inc on line 808

Also when I try to access menu I get this error message:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 268240 bytes) in C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\modules\menu\menu.module on line 628

I've tried switching on and off modules, reinstalling the database, reinstalling drupal but nothing seems to help. The sister site admin works fine and the sites are identical apart from the server set ups

Could somebody please give me a step by step on how to set up a multi site drupal installation.

I have set up drupal for one of the site that I am hosting. I would use drupal for all the sites that I'm going to be hosting in future, but I don't want to have to copy or set up drupal in the /www/domain folder for every site that i host.

There must be a why that i can set up drupal once and host multiple site by pointing apache to a folder or a file.

Thanks

I use Rimu Hosting (rimuhosting.com) and they're excellent. They have VPS and dedicated servers. They're not super-cheap, but their customer support is REALLY good. I'm sure they could install Drupal for you.

Good luck
-Mike