Hosting support

Hello -

I have a host that I would like to stay with and who is working hard to host a Drupal site for me, but is just having a terrible time. He sent me this note and it just seems wrong...

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As you know, the core issue & problem is based on the owner/user rights. Apache runs as one user and that works for hundreds of sites on all our servers. Drupal requires a dedicated server setup which runs Apache under the user account of the site owner. It is the only application I have seen do this in over 10 years of running web servers. Never heard of it (the user rights issue) or seen it before. Close as I can tell Drupal is the only "shared" application in common use which poses these issues. To me, it simply is not an application which was ever coded for use in a 'normal' shared server environment.

I have a website hosted on Hostmonster.com, and recently my drupal access to the site is broken. ( not the password just the access window to the system). When I try to access /?q=admin, the server resets before loading the page. When I use /?q=user, I am able to log in but once inside when I try to access any of the drupal tools, edit blocks, add content I get the same server connection was reset prior to the page loading error.

I suspected I might be in over my head, but I managed to install the Drupal app on GoDaddy and build a website on my own -navigating the Drupal modules, blocks, configurations, etc. Just as I was starting to feel somewhat competent, I can't figure out how to turn the old site off and make the new one go live.

The existing website was built in Joomla. To the best of my knowledge the Joomla powered site is also hosted on the same GoDaddy account. I need to turn off this Joomla site and turn on the one created in Drupal. I have a feeling this is probably very a simple task, but I have looked through the forums and found nothing. It may very well be my search terms, so please forgive me if this is a duplicate question.

I did find a tmp folder on the HTML tree (In the FTP file manager on Go Daddy) that contains one item... a file titled index.html. However, I can't seem to find a single other page on this tree.

Please help. A "for dummies" or "for blondes" instruction set would be most appreciated. :-)

Thank you!

Fact overview:
Old website needs to go away.
Old site created in Joomla.
Old site hosted by Go Daddy.
New site needs to go live.
New site created in Drupal.
New site hosted by Go Daddy.
Marketing coordinator (me) not bright enough to accomplish this without help.
Please help.

Background information:

how is name.com hosting service? do you recommend?

Hi everyone!

I've installed your drupal 7 site on a remote server. I have also a version of my site on my local computer. So must I always do every thing on my remote server (this requires a internet connection) or may I do these stuffs on my local (if someday the internet connection fails) and upload these changes somehow to my version on remote server.

Any help would be appreciated!

A guy from vietnam!

I just built a Drupal site on my hosting account (see at annetschider.com/wshsc) and have to migrate it to my client's GoDaddy account (wahealthcaresafety.org).
I moved the files over following the instructions under "Copy your test sit to a live site", but all that comes up on the GD host is their default Drupal front page - it is not seeing my site at all.
I am a novice at this, and so please speak s l o w l y and in English ; ) but I'm hoping there's an easy fix that I'm just not aware of.