Some time ago, we had clients on Dreamhost, some shared, some dedicated.<br><br>I think they discontinued the dedicated now, but at that time BOTH the dedicated<br>and shared had the database on another machine, which is shared by other sites,<br>
and this caused a lot of contention. The sign to look for is an excessively long time<br>for queries relative to the total page time in devel.<br><br>They had Debian, with shell access, but not root.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:34 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@markery.com">mark@markery.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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" <<a href="mailto:net@saltwebsites.com" target="_blank">net@saltwebsites.com</a>><br>
Date: Thu, March 05, 2009 10:30 am<br>
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<div> <div><font style="font-size: 11pt;" 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.</font></div>
<div><font style="font-size: 11pt;" color="#663300" face="Calibri,sans-serif"> </font></div> <div><font style="font-size: 11pt;" 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">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.</font></div>
<div><font style="font-size: 11pt;" color="#663300" face="Calibri,sans-serif"> </font></div> <div><font style="font-size: 11pt;" 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.</font></div>
<div><font style="font-size: 11pt;" color="#663300" face="Calibri,sans-serif"> </font></div> <div><font style="font-size: 11pt;" color="#663300" face="Calibri,sans-serif">Regards,</font></div> <div><font style="font-size: 11pt;" color="#663300" face="Calibri,sans-serif">John</font></div>
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<div><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">From:</font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:consulting-bounces@drupal.org" target="_blank">consulting-bounces@drupal.org</a> [<a href="mailto:consulting-bounces@drupal.org" target="_blank">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</font></div> </div> <div> </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 </div> </div> </div></div><hr><div class="im">_______________________________________________<br>
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