[consulting] Client Hosting...

[Shai Gluskin]

I quit with Mosso in July after about 4 months. Maybe they are ready for
prime time now. Back then they weren't. Latency was a huge factor in my
sites. The control panels were horribly buggy (their "legacy" one and their
beta which was a totally rewritten one... both way buggy.)

It become clear to me after a while that what was holding this "cloud"
together was a LOT of code that they were writing themselves. It made me
really appreciate a LAMP stack running the exact same code as a gazillion
other hosts with Cpanel also running on a gazillion other boxes.

After going from shared to VPS to "cloud" I finally broke down and got a
dedicated box from Inmotionhosting.com. I'm not running any sites that are
likely to get slashdotted or are particularlly high volume... so the
advantage of the cloud wasn't really that important. It's just great to have
shell access again, I can't believe I lived without it. The box is fully
supported (and so not cheap), but it's been incredably reliable and easy.
And I sleep good at night knowing that any unused CPU, RAM, disk space
etc... is just sitting there, unused. They run SuPHP which takes just a
little bit of learning some minor differences.

That's my experience.

I host most of my clients' sites and charge them $300/year for a very basic
site to $900/year with CiviCRM and/or is much more complex. That includes
security upgrades for modules and core. I'm not running a multisite set-up.
Each site has its own Cpanel account.

I don't want to troubleshoot a shared hosting situation for my clients. My
clients are small and want one stop shopping. By hosting myself in a really
stable environment I reduce a lot of variables and make the hosting part
bearable. I explain this to my clients and they get it, even though they are
small. The ones who push me on $100/year hosting, I don't want them as
clients.

Shai

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Brian Vuyk <brian at brianvuyk.com> wrote:

>  Cardell,
>
> I've been using Mosso for a bit now, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend
> them, as long as you are aware of a few minor issues:
>
> 1. There is no shell access to the accounts.
> 2. Currently, Java isn't supported, so you won't be able to run something
> like Solr
> 3. You have to uncomment the 'RewriteBase    /' line in .htaccess before
> clean urls work.
>
> On the upside, they have had 100% uptime since I've started with them, and
> both my clients' and my own sites have not slowed down regardless of load.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 04/02/2009 07:00 PM, Cardell Orrin wrote:
>
>
>
> I’m wondering if anyone has any recommendations on hosting for multiple
> client websites. I’ve used shared hosting with a reseller account for some
> clients, but have been thinking about something more robust….with VPS or
> cloud. I was looking at Mosso, but have seen mixed responses on their
> handling of Drupal. I do like their ability to bill clients, so if someone
> knows of something better that has that option, I’d be interested in that
> too.
>
>
>
> I know this is discussed in some other places, but I was hoping to get the
> perspective of other consultants.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cardell
>
>
>
> ---
>
> Cardell Orrin
>
> Linx Consulting
>
> 901.210.2161
>
> www.consultlinx.com
>
>
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