For different kinds of sites, I use different providers.<div><br></div><div>0. Linode rocks, rocks, rocks. I have used it for three years and never had a problem. Of course, as pointed out in this thread, it&#39;s a strictly DIY approach, so someone who knows what they are doing has to participate in the process.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Interesting alternatives are:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Liquid Web VPS</div><div>This gives a great managed alternative on CentOS, great service, a VPS with CPanel and WHS</div><div><br></div><div>2. Funnily enough, Site5... It was great 3 years ago, horrible up to 12 months ago, but since it has been on Planet, I have found that a Reseller account has rocked for simple shared-hosting kinds of sites. I recently created a site for a friend, and I could install drush and have full ssh access, and everything just worked, with decent performance.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Victor Kane</div><div><a href="http://awebfactory.com.ar">http://awebfactory.com.ar</a></div><div><a href="http://projectflowandtracker.com">http://projectflowandtracker.com</a></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Justin Ellison <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:justin@techadvise.com">justin@techadvise.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

I&#39;m partial to Linode - they&#39;re affordable, and performance is top-notch.  I&#39;ve written quite a few articles about them on my blog: <a href="http://sysadminsjourney.com/category/linode" target="_blank">http://sysadminsjourney.com/category/linode</a><br>


<br>You mention security - Linode is a hands-off provider.  They give you a VPS, and a distro, and that&#39;s about it.  Security is up to you.  You don&#39;t get a CPanel, but you&#39;re free to install your own if you like.  They also have StackScripts, which allow you to have &quot;click-n-run servers&quot;.  There&#39;s plenty of Drupal StackScripts, check them out at <a href="http://www.linode.com/stackscripts" target="_blank">http://www.linode.com/stackscripts</a>.<br>


<br>Many others are happy with Amazon AWS and Rackspace, but I can&#39;t speak for them myself.  I have less than stellar personal opinions of running Drupal on Aplus.net and Dreamhost shared hosting.<br><br>HTH,<br><font color="#888888"><br>

Justin<br>
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