[consulting] Sluggishness Concern

[Steve Rasmussen]

I use hotdrupal.com, they are an excellent host.

nolimitsdude

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:34 AM, <mark at markery.com> wrote:

> Has anyone had good experiences with Dreamhost? What about Rackspace?
>
> Both of these providers offer personal servers with adjustable settings.
>
> Mark
>
>  -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [consulting] Sluggishness Concern
> From: "John Fletcher" <net at saltwebsites.com>
> Date: Thu, March 05, 2009 10:30 am
> To: <consulting at drupal.org>
>
>  Personally I would agree that shared hosting can be a mixed bag, however
> I wouldn’t blanket write off shared hosting. I’ve had success with it.
>
> Sorry I can’t recommend any hosts in the US, assuming that’s what you want.
> I’ve used www.newsprout.com.au with success in Australia, definitely
> enough resources allocated, but if you’ve got a generic domain (.com etc)
> site you should make sure you host it in the country you are primarily
> targeting.
>
> If you have access to PhpMyAdmin or similar make sure the mysql_query_cache
> is enabled and set to a non-zero value. Once a host failed to enable that
> and it caused major performance issues. Also you might narrow the problem
> down to logged-in-users vs non logged-in-users.
>
> Regards,
> John
>
>  *From:* consulting-bounces at drupal.org [
> mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org <consulting-bounces at drupal.org>] *On
> Behalf Of *Sam Cohen
> *Sent:* Thursday, 5 March 2009 5:13 PM
> *To:* A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
> *Subject:* [consulting] Sluggishness Concern
>
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry if this if off-topic ...
>
> I've got a new client that I'm implementing a solution for, but based on
> the number of modules needed, I'm a bit concerned about sluggishness --
> something I've been hearing complaints from my clients about with Drupal 6.
>
>
> All my Drupal 5 sites work really fast.  But the 4 Drupal 6 sites I've set
> up are all sluggish, especially for logged in users.
>
> A dedicated server is definitely a possibility if the client's business
> works out, but in the beginning they want to start with a shared host.
>
> So my question is, has anyone found any shared hosts that a
> heavily-module-loaded Drupal 6 site can really fly on?
>
> I've tried 3 or 4 hosts by now, and all seem equally slow.
>
> Or is just luck of the draw?  You get on a shared server without a lot of
> other sites and the site works great.  If it's a busy server, you're out of
> luck?
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
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