Hosting support

Hello,

for my website I have a hosting, which I have difficulties with /safe mode off/, is there any reccommendation for the best Drupal hosting?

Thanks,

Luke
http://www.bizhrguide.com

We ran the devel module to find out why our site is running so slow. We're using a Dreamhost shared server to develop but their info on dedicated says there are no improvements database-wise going dedicated with them so they're probably out. Adding it all up, it's 2-3 seconds before things even start loading, which is 20x as slow as an average home PC.

It's unacceptable ... and that's with no traffic yet.

Does anyone have recommendations on price/value dedicated hosts? We need something that will be good for 1-2 million views a month.

Okay, my ISP moved my Druapl-based site and failed to bring the database over. Okay, that's solved. However, when they finally added it, the content (each page, poll, story etc.) is now in descending order instead of ascending order (most recent content at the top). Can anyone explain how this happened and how I can remedy?

Is anyone using the host webmasters.com, or has anyone used them? My question is mainly about multi-site. If someone has already done it there, I can be fairly sure that the challenges that I run into will be workable.

Thanks!

Michael

I'm having a big problem with mysql and drupal, hope you can help me...

My drupal 4.7 website is hosted on a linux RH box (not mine: Atjeu.com). Drupal was installed upon mysql 4.0.27 and utf8 was the encoding.

The server has been rebuilt because it has been heavily hacked, and the technicians have fully restored the backups.

Restoring the server, the ISP upgraded mysql to 4.1.x; actually I don't know if this is the real culprit, but my web pages scambled all accented letters. I opened the database with phpmyadmin and saw that every table had a latin1 charset and swedish_general_ci collation, instead of ut8_general_ci

The ISP doesn't seem to be able to fix the issue, I opened a support ticket three days ago! I need your help!

It seems that the db actually has utf8 data in it, but for some reason it reads it as latin1.
I have already tried to:

1) alter the tables and change them to utf8 and utf8_general_ci
to no avail, all accenter letters were still garbled on my web pages

2) follow the directions on http://textsnippets.com/posts/show/84 :

# mysqldump --user=usr --password=passwd --default-character-set=latin1 --skip-set-charset mysql_db > mysql_db.sql

# sed -r 's/latin1/utf8/g' ./mysql_db.sql > mysql_db_utf8.sql

I am a relatively new convert to drupal - about a year or so. I love it. There is nothing like open source to inspire new ideas and push the boundaries of the code. In fact, that is the essence of the site i am creating with drupal. I have some basic programming capabilities, and with a minimal understanding of php and a lot of cutting and pasting code from the community, i have managed to put something good together.