<br>I have my sites on a cloud server, and it's even free for the first year (<a href="http://nephoscale.com">http://nephoscale.com</a>). I use a shared hosting account (for which I foolishly prepaid for a couple of years, before I started using drupal) for automated off-site backups. Nice, fast, reliable (I have had this setup since February). <br>
<br>I don't think they have cpanel, and I administer my cloud server (centos) myself (they gave me an intitial centos 5.5 image, and I have configured everything myself, run updates every couple of days, also had to upgrade to Centos 5.6 myself). Since I am an sysadmin, this is no biggy for me, but might deter others. <br>
<br>I tried the dreamhost vsp for a while, which was also nice and fast, but I couldn't deal with their meddling with the systems administration. <br><br>Ursula<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nan_wich@bellsouth.net">nan_wich@bellsouth.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>Installing Drupal with Fantastico is really bad news!!! Learn to do it right; it is not much harder. Thos installation scripts are fine for the initial installation, but you cannot use them to upgrade from one release of Drupal to another.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>The only choice I have seen besides cPanel is Virtualmin/Webmin. Between those two choices, I would choose cPanel in a heartbeat.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>I am sure to get flamed
for this, but I also have Drupal running just fine on shared hosting. These are low volume sites, to be sure. And the host is one of the few who actually limits how many accounts it allows on the box. Keep in mind that VPS is also a form of shared hosting, but with a guarantee.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>In today's world, for higher volume sites, I would no longer choose VPS at all. I would either go with a dedicated box or cloud server.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font color="#ff007f" face="bookman old style, new york, times, serif" size="4"><i><b>Nancy</b></i></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.</font></div>
<div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif;">
<font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jorge Biquez</font></div><div class="im"><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font><font size="3">I was wondering if maybe some of you can shera off line to me the </font><br>
<font size="3">name of your providers you are using. For sure linode
is the best </font><br><font size="3">option for Drpal but I am thinking also to move teh other applicatons </font><br><font size="3">that are running on my VPS.</font><br><br><font size="3">I Guess VPS would be the best option, with CPanel installed and </font><br>
<font size="3">something similar to Fantastico to do installations.</font></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><br>--<br>
[ Drupal support list | <a href="http://lists.drupal.org/" target="_blank">http://lists.drupal.org/</a> ]<br></blockquote></div><br>