<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;">Has anyone had good experiences with Dreamhost? What about Rackspace?<br><br>Both of these providers offer personal servers with adjustable settings.<br><br>Mark<br><br>
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Subject: Re: [consulting] Sluggishness Concern<br>
From: "John Fletcher" <net@saltwebsites.com><br>
Date: Thu, March 05, 2009 10:30 am<br>
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</style> <div class="Section1"> <div><font style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" color="#663300" face="Calibri,sans-serif">Personally I would agree that shared hosting can be a mixed bag, however I wouldn’t blanket write off shared hosting. I’ve had success with it.<o:p></o:p></font></div> <div><font style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" color="#663300" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></font></div> <div><font style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" color="#663300" face="Calibri,sans-serif">Sorry I can’t recommend any hosts in the US, assuming that’s what you want. I’ve used <a href="http://www.newsprout.com.au" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.newsprout.com.au">www.newsprout.com.au</a> with success in Australia, definitely enough resources allocated, but if you’ve got a generic domain (.com etc) site you should make sure you host it in the country you are primarily targeting.<o:p></o:p></font></div> <div><font style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" color="#663300" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></font></div> <div><font style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" color="#663300" face="Calibri,sans-serif">If you have access to PhpMyAdmin or similar make sure the mysql_query_cache is enabled and set to a non-zero value. Once a host failed to enable that and it caused major performance issues. Also you might narrow the problem down to logged-in-users vs non logged-in-users.<o:p></o:p></font></div> <div><font style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" color="#663300" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></font></div> <div><font style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" color="#663300" face="Calibri,sans-serif">Regards,<o:p></o:p></font></div> <div><font style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" color="#663300" face="Calibri,sans-serif">John<o:p></o:p></font></div> <div><font style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" color="#663300" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></font></div> <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"> <div><b><font style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";" size="2" face="Tahoma,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">From:</font></b><font style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";" size="2" face="Tahoma,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> consulting-bounces@drupal.org [<a onclick="return true;if(window.location==top.location){Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=consulting-bounces%40drupal.org');}else{top.Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=consulting-bounces%40drupal.org');}; return false;" href="mailto:consulting-bounces@drupal.org" target="_blank" mce_href="mailto:consulting-bounces@drupal.org">mailto:consulting-bounces@drupal.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sam Cohen<br> <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 5 March 2009 5:13 PM<br> <b>To:</b> A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers<br> <b>Subject:</b> [consulting] Sluggishness Concern<o:p></o:p></font></div> </div> <div><o:p> </o:p></div> <div>Hi all,<br> <br> Sorry if this if off-topic ...<br> <br> I've got a new client that I'm implementing a solution for, but based on the number of modules needed, I'm a bit concerned about sluggishness -- something I've been hearing complaints from my clients about with Drupal 6. <br> <br> All my Drupal 5 sites work really fast. But the 4 Drupal 6 sites I've set up are all sluggish, especially for logged in users. <br> <br> A dedicated server is definitely a possibility if the client's business works out, but in the beginning they want to start with a shared host.<br> <br> So my question is, has anyone found any shared hosts that a heavily-module-loaded Drupal 6 site can really fly on? <br> <br> I've tried 3 or 4 hosts by now, and all seem equally slow.<br> <br> Or is just luck of the draw? You get on a shared server without a lot of other sites and the site works great. If it's a busy server, you're out of luck?<br> <br> Thanks,<br> Sam <o:p></o:p></div> </div> <hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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