I’m shopping around for a hosting provider to run a Drupal installation for a middle school. Once set up, it will have 40-50 student users, with each having their own blog and possibly utilize a wiki and forum module as well- all within the same drupal site.
The question I have is what kind of plan might be appropriate? Most of the hosting companies point me toward a virtual server solution, which is more expensive.
They have version 4.6.2 of Drupal -- not the latest, but close. I was able to delete xmlrpc.php. In theory, I guess I could upload 4.6.3 to my directory, although so far the only thing I've added has been a module, which was trivial over ftp.
The sysadmin gerry has been very helpful when I've had questions.
Has anyone had experience with hosting Drupal on a Yahoo! Small Business hosting account? I have the web hosting "standard" level of service... which seems to support php-nuke, but makes no mention of Drupal. I've developed my site with the Yahoo! SiteBuilder software, but really need the features of Drupal. Any testimonials or thoughts would be appreciated.
I have a problem with running Drupal sites using 1and1 hosting. Well actually, 1and1 has been pretty good for me for hosting 'smaller' and 'less dynamic' pages. Eeven though I upgraded to 1and1's "Premier" account last year. I am starting to have problems with their hosting for my Drupal sites as my Drupal sites start to expand and grow larger. I am posting this looking for suggestions of hosts which do not encounter any of the following problems.
Here are the problems that I currently have with 1and1:
A) Using Drupal, if I have a lot of modules installed, when I try to access Admin / Modules, I get a *500 Error: Internal Server Error*. If I have a lot of menu items, when I try to access Admin / Menu, I get a *500 Error: Internal Server Error*. If I have a lot of modules installed, when I try to access Admin / Access, I get a *500 Error: Internal Server Error*. When I try to use the Simple News module I get *500 Error: Internal Server Error*.
B) Even with my "Premier" 1and1 virtual hosting account. They only offer a total of THREE MySQL databases. Each database only has a limit of 100MBs :(.