Hosting support

I recently moved on to a Dreamhost dedicated server and have noticed that it just does not work as well as it should. Feeds imports timeout, form submissions are slow. MySQL seems laggy in general and seems to be the cause. Does anyone here have any experience with this? Is there someone I can pay to optimize my server to work with Drupal? I have both 6 and 7 sites on this server, but 7 mainly.

Edit: I wanted to add that I have a server with 16GB RAM / 1TB hd, their top tier dedicated server.

I have installed Drupal 7 on Linux hosted server (Shared Hosting). However, for some reason i am not able to enable clean urls. I have tried possible solutions that i have come across through out the drupal community, but no luck.

I keep getting an error saying "The clean urls test failed"

I have tried making the required changes in my .htaccess file as well.

"#
# Apache/PHP/Drupal settings:
#

# Protect files and directories from prying eyes.

Order allow,deny

i'll be making a new website for my blog, and want to know where to host my website ... ? What is difference in drupal and any other hosting? which is best and cheap for me while fully secure in same time ... :P any suggestion will be appreciated as i have no clue about.

Hi friends,
I am planing to develop a site in drupal CMS. I am interested to buy shared hosting. but in future I may need to use vps hosting. is it possible to change my hosting without loss of data? and I am not sure which is the best place to buy hosting server. can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance

Which Service provides the best Scalability for Bandwidth options? In case If I need exceed of bandwidth space. Please refer me some good Providers.

Issue #1

After exporting my site, I created a new database with Cpanel. The .sql in CPanel would not accept the underline in the name of the database and the name for user1. For example, Atlantis_Phoenix was the name of the database exported from Drupal Gardens. The new database would not accept that name because all the characters must be alphanumeric. The same thing occurred with 'user1_xxxxx."

I was able to use my name 'krsanna' and password exported from Drupal Gardens, because there was no '_' in them.