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I'm interested in finding a hosting company that not only meets Drupal's requirements but also provides PHP5 and MySQL5 services as well as a good reseller option. I was going to settle with Site5's reseller plan, but looking at their specs it appears they only provide MySQL4 on their servers. While I could go back to using a VPS on my current reseller plan, I'm in need of a good cutting-edge hosting plan that provides 24 hour support/monitoring. Some of my sites are just getting plain to busy for downtime...

Hi Guys,

I am looking for a good hosting where i can put my site www.tastyfood.tv together with drupal,

At the moment i am with cirtex, but my site many times is offline.

If you know a good hosting, can you please reply me with a link?

Thanks
www.tastyfood.tv

Hello!

I can't log in as admin in Drupal on a server of FreeHostia. I have to done a file (php.ini) and I have to change some lines in the .htacces archive, but now, using Firefox, when I log in as admin it appears a white page (with URL www.mydomain.com/?q=user) and it takes a minute.

I don't say what can I do, but I'm very angry with FreeHosti. If noone has a solution I want to know good servers to install Drupal.

Thanks, and sorry for my english (I'm spanish).

I haven't decided which host to go for, so I thought I'd open up a conversation about which host and hosting plan to choose for a Social Network website.

1) Obviously I don't know whether my Social Network will pick up or not, so I want to start with an affordable price, and also have options to upgrade to higher packages if the website becomes popular.

2) End-user experience is paramount. Speed of moving from one page to another must be super-fast (if the website is slow then the social network will fail)

3) the initial members will be from UK, but the hosting prices in UK are crazy-high. So I'm thinking of hosting in US. Is that a bad idea? For a social network based on Drupal, which factor matters more: the physical location of the server, or the computational speed of the server itself?

4) Because it is designed for a small market, I don't think the number of memmbers will be more than few thousand (in the first year). But they will also have their own blogs and also upload their own files.

5) Each user and each OG will have their own subdomain names, eventhough everything will run from a single database.

Here are the steps that I remember going through in the past couple days while I was setting up my new web site. So far, so good! :)

1. Signed up for Yahoo Small Business Web Hosting. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/

2. Reviewed Content Management Systems (CMSs), especially Drupal, Mambo, Joomla, Xoop, and WebGUI. I especially considered each system's install base; how many implementations there are and whether I recognized the users (i.e. Tim Berners-Lee!). I used the following websites to help me compare the systems.
- http://www.cmsmatrix.com/
- http://www.opensourcecms.com/
- http://www.cmsreview.com/

3. Downloaded Drupal. Unzipped the package to a new, local directory (on my hard drive) that I am using to mirror the files and folders in my Yahoo Web Hosting account.

4. Went back to my Yahoo web hosting control panel. Activated/initialized local MySQL database. Created admin user account. Used control panel to install phpMyAdmin. Logged in and created new database called "drupal" with the collation = "utf8_general_ci".

5. Went back to the new local directory and changed the "\sites\default\settings.php" file as per http://drupal.org/node/31395. Specifically, I changed the line that starts with "$db_url =" to

$db_url = 'mysql://myadminusername:myadminpassword@MySQL/drupal';

So I have had WHM for a while but haven't really used it much for hosting and I figured I would change that and start offering some cheap hosting for people who want to host their Drupal site. My latest blog post on my website www.anthonylicari.com kind of describes it more but I really only want to offer hosting to people who contact me, so if you are interested then please contact me. I'm not looking to be competition to host gator or any other host.