[support] CPU usage

[Victor Kane]

It's true that sometimes shared hosting gives great value.

The problem is that the service is never consistent. Their fortunes
and the service they offer varies tremendously over time.

I started out with Site5, several years ago.

For the first year they were great, recommendable. Then their server
performance began to suck as evident overselling took place.

Now, however, they have migrated to new servers (new owners) and right
now are tremendously recommendable. Service is great too.

However, I prefer the freedom of VPS and have been working with
linode.com for over a year, and love it. Never a problem, strong
performance, great service, irc discussion group, great wiki... Highly
recommendable.

My referral code is
http://www.linode.com/?r=a105db8a0cca040b67cc8221fe25ffc84d45e25b

Use it!

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Sam Cohen <support at newms.net> wrote:
> There are plenty of shared hosting companies that offer great support and
> can handle very busy sites.
>
> And this is coming from someone who hosts about 40 Drupal sites for clients
> on my own dedicated server.
>
> I have to say, I'm thinking about getting out of the hosting biz altogether,
> because I've seem really inexpensive hosting companies do a great job.  I
> manage a number of GoDaddy hosted sites that work great with a lot of
> traffic and logged in users.
>
> The thing you do have to watch out for on shared hosting, are sites that
> consume a massive amount of php memory, such as a site running Ubercart,
> CiviCRM, Views, Devel etc -- with some shared host companies, even though it
> says you have plenty of php memory, it turns out they allocate it
> dynamically and you might wind up with the white screen of death on some of
> your pages.
>
> On one such site, I recently went with a managed VPS at servint.net -- which
> was recommended by a number of Drupal consultants.  So far I've been happy
> with them and their prices are good.  You can also use this code to get 50%
> off your first month -  whtreturn09
>
> For shared hosting, there's also http://hotdrupal.com/ -- which I haven't
> used, but they have been recommended by a number of people.
>
> Sam
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Nicolas Tostin <nicolast at logis.com.mx>
> wrote:
>>
>> > > Regarding Mosso, I'll understand their basic plan will fit you ?
>> > > It's 50GB HD, 500GB Bandwith and 10000 compute cycles for $100, so it
>> looks
>> > > good for your usage ?
>> >
>> > I must have made a mistake. I calculated the cost and I got a very
>> > different value:
>> >
>> > 500*0.25 + 50*0.25 + 10000*0.01 = $350/mo.
>> >
>> > Where did I go wrong?
>>
>> Don't know where you got these numbers, see their pricing page
>> http://www.mosso.com/pricing.jsp
>> Start at $100, extra GB of storage is $0.5, extra GB of bandwith is $0.25
>>
>> What I'm not really sure is how the compute cycle will stand, for exemple,
>> I'm building a web site which abuse of views, and some dashboard admin
>> page
>> generates hundreds of queries... I know I should optimize this but the
>> optimization will cost me a lot of time so if it doesn't hurt so much the
>> bill it's ok...
>> But I think you'll have to evaluate this to be sure not to explode the
>> compute cycles in Mosso.
>>
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