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Hi,

I am looking for a suitable host for my upcoming site. The site will be politically leftist oriented, and I presume many of the members will post content that is politically radical. I need a host that won´t freak out - e.g. if receiving complaints or pressures from governmental or other agencies - but that stays calm and is loyal.

Also, the host should be able to give me an enormous amount of space and well-functioning and flexible MySQL services.

I expect to pay something for the hosting service, and I am ready to pay a lot if necessary.

Right now I am with GoDaddy with their 5GB storage 250GB Bandwidth plan. I am planning a large site, and I need at least 20GB of storage. Right now I can hold about 450 users if they are all using their allotted storage space for pictures, up to 1000 if none of them have pictures. I would like support for at least a few thousand. I looked at brinkster as reccomended by someone else, but their biggest package (for$20) is the same size as what I have right now (for $4).

I am looking for a dedicated hosting company.

Rackspace is $425/mo to start, though they do sound excellent.

I found this info, which I wanted to share since it actually quotes the number of visitors at which you want to move to dedicated.

http://www.thehostingnews.com/secart18.html

If you simply have a brochure-ware web site, then virtual hosting is for you. When you have a site that is more than a brochure whether you are selling something on the Internet, or you have a very popular site and you get more and more traffic a shared site may not be able to keep up with that. If your site has a number of visitors in the low-thousands per day, you probably want to think about getting a dedicated server.

Another reason revolves around security. Whether you have data that you really want to protect, or if you happen to have a high-profile site that is a target of hackers, dedicated is preferable. Typically sites on a shared environment are less secure for a variety of reasons. So as you start to get more and more serious about security, the dedicated environment makes more sense for you.

Additionally, when you're in a shared environment you are in many ways at the mercy of all the other customers in that shared environment. So if there's another customer on that box that's doing something bad - that may be using up all the resources of that server your customer

I installed Drupal 4.7.2 on Bluehost and began getting many 500 errors.

I called them up and Bluehost said that they no longer support Drupal 4.7.2.

I was told that Bluehost has contacted people from Drupal and said that they would not support the latest version of Drupal "until the memory problems were fixed." Something about Drupal 4.7.2 using up too much memory for their servers.

If you are planning on using Drupal 4.7.2, Bluehost will not work (until these problems are fixed -- if they ever are).

Hi all,

I would like to find out what I can do to speed up my website (from a bandwidth-used point of view) - I'm not really concerned about the page-generation time.
I heard things about GZIP compression and the likes, but I'm not sure exactly how it works.

With bluehost, you cannot add php commands in .htaccess
This has to be done in the php.ini for that folder.

I tried adding

Installing Drupal on 1and1 servers.

As most first times (or first couple of times), installing Drupal wasn’t as easy as expected but it should have been if I was better prepared.

Now, I think I could do it in my sleep. ;-)

So the first thing you will need in a non MS hosting plan from 1and1. I have the Business plan, but any of the accounts should do. If you look at the comparison chart, they all do PHP and SQL.

Note: Yes I know you can do it under IIS, but I didn’t do it that way. In fact, Imoved to the Linux package from an MS one just to install Drupal

Now you need to download the latest version of Drupal from http://drupal.org/project/Drupal+project.

Unzip, oops, untar the file to someplace in your hard drive like x:\drupal\drupal-#.#.#, but any place that you can get to (and remember) will be fine.

Now go to your 1and1 admin web page at http://admin.1and1.com and log in. You will need to create a SQL database. Make sure you are on the Administrator TAB and click the MySQL Administration icon.

Now create a new database by clicking the “New Database’ button. Give the database a description. Doesn’t really matter what you put here, just something that you will remember. I put the name of the site someone in this description, to easily identify it. Believe me, you will need it, especially if you are going to create more SQL databases.