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i found this site that gives performance stats for hosting sites....

http://www.realmetrics.com/r/shared-hosting

what do you think, does it look legit?

i need to get a new web host, i think it might be friendlier and site5, friendlier looks good on this site, but dont see site5

I'm currently using RimuHosting.com to support several Drupal sites, both single installation and multi-site, under one VPS account. I'm very pleased with their performance, reliability, and support. However, like most VPS solutions storage space and bandwidth is much more limited (and expensive) than it is with the much more common shared hosting accounts provided by vendors like 1and1.com, et al.

Recently I uploaded several rather large WAV and MP3 files that were intended to be shared with a small audience. A "failure in communications" allowed a link to my site to be published on another site. Within two days my bandwidth usage was about 6 times the amount used in the previous month; fortunately we got the link removed before more people took advantage of it.

Now I'm wondering about using a low-cost shared hosting account, one with large storage space and bandwidth allowances, e.g., 1200 GB of space and 12,000 GB of bandwidth for $4.95/mo, simply to host large files. Thus mydomain.com would be hosted at Rimuhosting while data.mydomain.com would be at 1and1. FWIW, Rimuhosting has a very flexible nameserver where I actually have my domain records.

Two questions:

1. Does this seem feasible?

2. Does anyone know if it's possible to configure Drupal (and or IMCE) so that the files directory is on another server?

All help will be greatly appreciated,

I am having a problem with drupal 5 hosted in root on hostgator.
What i wanted was to setup an addon domain on my primary domain to host another site and cms there.

So this is what i want to do

public_html -> drupal hosted here(main primary domain)
public_html/site1 -> i wanna setup a addon domain to this directory with wordpress installed here(not drupal)

Now i followed the normal procedure which basically is a new folder creation, subdomain, and the domain that adds on to subdomain(all this is automatically handled on hostgaor.)

hi i am hosting a website www.domain1.com on anhosting.... the path of files for this is /home/user/public_html/

i plan to have an addon domain (www.domain2.com)with the same account... I want to know how to change document path of www.domain1.com ... i want it to be /home/user/domain1 and that of www.domain2.com to be /home/user/domain2

Is this possible?

Hi,

I have been on MediaTemple for a few years now and i am very very happy with their service.
I have recently used their one-click install of Drupal 4.7. I am very impressed with Drupal and want to switch over to using it to power my web site.

I will need to create several custom modules and would prefer to do this work on V5.x

Has anyone got 5.x running on the MediaTemple Grid Server?

Cheers

I was wondering whether anyone could recommend a free hosting company that supports Drupal. I'm going to create a small internet site & i can't imagine it taking up more than 200Mb (absolute tops), & won't be needing much bandwidth to begin with.
My colleague has a Dreamhost acct so i might be able to set it up on that, but i'd prefer to get my own hosting plan.
Suggestions? Or all free hosts capable of hosting Drupal likely to be more hassle than they are worth?
thanks!
tom