Hosting support

Hi,

I'm developing a community site (in Drupal of course) specifically for China.

Can anyone recommend any hosts in China whose servers are optimized for Drupal? It is particularly important they are based here, as sites outside of China are always so slow to load.

Thanks,

Alex

Hello.

I am currently on Hostgator and I am very happy with them at $10 per month. But I have seen many advertisements by SiteGround which caught my attention, under $5 per month with more space.

I do not plan to stop using Hostgator but would like to try another host for a future website using Drupal of course.

Any feedback... good or bad regarding SiteGround would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

Not sure of the version, as I just inherited this site as a webmaster. I've only worked on Frontpage sites, and just published to server after the page was done.
This is all new to me, and I don't have a lot of time to learn DRUPAL, as this involves an election. I already have a site up and running with the same content, but just want to redirect visitors to my new URL to save time changing both sites.
Can you help me edit a setting to do this?
thanks,
kris

As a newbie, I read web host reviews before making up my mind.

1) I chose Netfirms because I wanted to have my own domain, and they rank very high on google and when I say the domain name was available I couldn't help buying it....afterwards when I started using drupal I realised Netfirms is very limited, and mainly aimed towards web 1.0 kind of webpages. Up to August 2006 there's no CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE, OR LOCK TABLE WRITE available whether you ask for it or no...the guys will just say NO.

2) Ipowerweb is terrible on customer service. I've been waiting 1week+ for them to update their old mysql4.0 database, so I can have proper utf8 encoding so my spanish accents are properly rendered on browsers. On top of that, lots of priviledges and perks I need are only given If you ask by email, and then it takes a while for them to approve them and sometimes they say no. The servers are often down, I'm not online all the time, and I spotted twice my website was down in a 2 month period...I find this unacceptable.

3) I switched a couple of weeks ago to site5. yes they're 50% more expensive...but I get 200% better everything. Page loads in a fraction of a time, x4 times faster, ftp is a breeze, x9 times faster easily. My domain is not down, and they send me an email to tell me beforehand when the servers are going to be down for maintenance.

Advice
DON'T TRUST WEB REVIEWS, except probably in forums, and even then be wary. Some companies set up these websites, to say wonders of their services and make you believe these reviews come from independent sources.

Hi everyone,

I run vhost, a web hosting company that is listed here on Drupal in the services page.

I'm considering offering a special deal on webhosting which will be lifetime hosting for a one-off fixed fee. I would like to hear different people's opinions as to whether or not this is something that would generally be attractive.

The main questions I have to ask are:

1) Would you be interested in a hosting plan of this type?

I want to get a SSL certificate. I'm noticing that a lot of websites use certificates that are not recognized in my firefox browser. I feel like my only option is Verisign for $800 if I don't want a lot of users to get a "cannot trust this site" and "certifcate authority not recognized" warning. I'm wondering if anyone else has found a SSL not issued by Verisign that seems to be widely/universally recognized.