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@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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