[support] Problems installing drupal

[sander-martijn]

lunarpages starts at $6.95/mo. and I have been developing a site on 
there for a couple weeks without a problem... they're feature set is 
great - up to 10 domains, unlimited subdomains, databases, 350GB 
storage, 3500GB bandwidth etc. for 6.95.  I've been hosting with them 
for about 6 months and have had no problems whatsoever.

However - I would warn you about drupal on a free/cheap shared host if 
it's going to get any large amount of traffic.  There has been a lot of 
talk on the forums about people getting shut down because drupal used to 
much processing power, the most famous being 
http://drupal.org/node/137898 (well i don't know how famous it is, but 
it comes up on the first page of almost everything I search for no 
matter how unrelated my search is).  To be safe I called lunarpages 
yesterday and asked them about their policy - as others have said their 
hosting providers did, lunarpages would shut my sites (all of them, not 
just the one causing trouble) without notice if my sites go above 1% of 
the processing power of the machine.  1%.  not much.  I don't think I'll 
run into a problem because I'm only developing on that server.  I still 
ended up in a screaming match with him - my contention being that 
whether it's a policy or not it's an unfair one if I am not provided 
with a tool to monitor my usage or given warning.  Like not putting 
speedometers in cars but still issuing tickets if you speed.  He 
basically said tough luck, it's the way we and everyone else does it in 
the industry and it's not going to change.

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Sauro Cesaretti wrote:
> Ok thank you
> I'll try to ask that.
> Can anyway anybody give me some advices about cheaps hosts
> Where I can install drupal easily?
> Thank you in advance and sorry that it's a bit off-topic.
> Best regards, Sauro
>