Hosting support

Howdy all,

I am finishing up a drupal ecommerce site with ubercart modules, and before it goes live, I want to make sure that my backup procedure (ftp files and DB) is fully functional, and I don't want to try restore from a DB on my live site, I want to do it on the dev site. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to create a dev environment on 1and1 servers? I use phpmyadmin, and backup and migrate for DB backups, and to backup my modules, I just copy down my entire root folder from FTP.

I'm interested in finding solutions to host a website. The main traffic is expected from Europe and Russia.
So far I've seen only company names with servers based in USA and I'm affraid it may affect loading speed of the website.
I'll appreciate any advices and suggestions. Thanks.
(Just please don't offer any russian companies. It's a nightmare there.)

I just went to my bookmarks to access my admin page (as I usually do) and it logged into what appears to be the actual site page. Any idea why it went to the site page instead of the admin control panel (as it had every previous time)? I turn on my WAMP server and my bookmarked page is (http://127.0.0.1/) because I don't have my domain name linked to the Drupal site? Does that sound right?

I have big problem
my hosting company is JUSHOST.com. and it is typically Shared Web Hosting.
and several times a day i see the DRUPAL SITE OFFLINE page with error
The mysqli error was: User DATABASE_USER already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections

i talk with hosting support, and they say me that max_user_connection is 15. its not enough for our website
what i can do to solve this BIG problem. can anyone suggest anything for me

I am currently working on a project that will use Amazon S3 for backend storage of images and PDFs. I'll need these files only accessible by the Drupal site (i.e. no hotlinking, direct downloads, etc). I've come up with two ways to configure Drupal/EC2/S3 and I was wondering what the community thought and/or who has done this already:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1967653/drupal/Drupal_Amazon_Options.png (I can't embed the image in the post for some reason)

Thoughts?

for uploading a website onto the hosting server using FileZilla do we also have to upload the whole of drupal ( i.e all files that are present inside "c:\wampserver\www\drupal-7.14" folder) also. Please Help ???