Green Drupal Hosting
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We all need reliable web hosting! And those of us in the Drupal world long for a web hosting company that at least knows what Drupal is and can help support our sites that use it in an intelligent manner.
If you need a host for a large and high-traffic site, you will probably go to one of the "big" hosting providers like Amazon, Rackspace or Linode. Even Acquia (one of the most popular Drupal distributions founded by the founder of Drupal) is teaming up with Rackspace to offer Enterprise-level Drupal web hosting.
But if you are like me, a little fish in the big Internet pond, you can't afford these wonderful Enterprise hosting providers. Currently, I'm on GoDaddy, which I can't really recommend but has been "okay". I have several sites and the idea of migrating to a new web host makes me rather go visit the dentist.
I just found out about a "green" Drupal hosting provider called Green Geeks. I love the name! First of all, being green is cool. Secondly, being a geek is super cool! So, although I don't currently use them, I'm checking them out to see if I should switch.
Green Geeks is listed on drupal.org's hosting page and in the latest Drupal for Dummies book (which I haven't read or even skimmed so I can't say anything about that).
The reviews at webhostinggeeks are pretty good (though I'm suspicious that the "geeks" at webhostinggeeks are supporting the green geeks... ;)
Of course, Green Geeks has it's own green Drupal hosting reviews (look at bottom of the page), but obviously take those with a grain of salt since they are on their own site.
If you are using Green Geeks for your Drupal web hosting needs and have an opinion, please leave a comment below. Thanks!
Update (4/28/10): I've been emailing back and forth with someone at Green Geeks to find out more about their web hosting and it looks like it might be a good choice for me. Currently, I have several websites hosted on GoDaddy and am paying around $4/month for each. But, at Green Geeks I can sign up one site for around $6 or $7/month and then "add on" additional domains at no charge so they are all piggybacking off the main account. They said I can ssh in to get at the all the files in one place. This is pretty much ideal for me and the price is great. I wonder how the speed is... leave a comment if you know! Meanwhile I'll do some more research.
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I have a client with
I have a client with lunarpages and they've had nothing but issues with them. They will be migrating to something else but probably something higher-end than Green Geeks... probably a VPS setup since they get a fair amount of traffic.
Hi fellow Drupaler, I haven't
Hi fellow Drupaler,
I haven't had any troubles with Drupal on Greengeeks so far. They even knocked down their price to $5 per month now, which is really cheap. If you are running small sites, it should do the job.
Jimmy
Green Geeks
HI - have been with greengeeks for about a month and performance seems to be OK. I was with Hostmonster and my site would grind to a halt as i was editing it. They showed me where to look in cPanel for "Slow Queries" which they call any query that takes over .5 sec. I asked to increase this and they said no. They told me to disable modules ONE BY ONE to see which modules were slowing the site (meaning that Hostmonster was arbitrarily throttling my site) down and to then remove that module. At Green Geeks one time my site has been slow and i called them. The first guy i chatted with (24 hr chat support-these guys are not engineers) said everything was fine - i said no it wasn't - so i called the next day and talked to someone who checked the server and said, indeed, something was slowing it down, which then they fixed within about 6 hours. In any case, through this whole time, my site (to end-users) continued to work - but my editing back-end work was slow - not ridiculous slow but annoying. I will stay with them.
btw - drupal.org has a rant between some guy and the GreenGeeks owner you might be interested in. At first, i thought the ranting guy might be real and i was ready to quit GreenGeeks, but after the 4th message, back and forth, it sounded like the GreenGeek guy was really trying to mediate the situation.
http://drupal.org/node/810476
Thanks!
This is great info. I still haven't decided what to do but this gives me a nudge more into Green Geeks corner.
I've heard good things about linode.com and one of my clients is using them but I'm not sure if they have a cheaper hosting package or not. Something I need to look into.
Thanks again,
Kristen
Green Drupal Hosting
Hi, I just signed up for greengeeks about 30 days ago. I have several drupal sites running today and build about one per week. I had been with lunarpages, but noticed that my drupal sites were terribly underperforming. I have been very happy with greengeeks in the regard that my drupal sites on there are snappy fast. My one complaint so far is that clients are getting emails bounced back to them from services like AOL and Craiglist stating that the email server ip their email is routing through (at greengeeks) is a known spammer. I've email gg about this and they state they have been delisted and it should be ok, but it's happened twice in two days now. I've had this problem before, it's an issue with the lower cost providers. I would like to find a host who doesn't have that issue, but that may push my prices way too high.
Lunarpages vs Green Geeks
Thanks for the lowdown... glad GG is working out pretty well except for the spamming issue.
Is it true that you can host a bunch of your domains under one account with one price (e.g. $8/mo)?
I have a client with lunarpages and they've had nothing but issues with them. They will be migrating to something else but probably something higher-end than Green Geeks... probably a VPS setup since they get a fair amount of traffic.
Kristen
Most of the hosts in the
Most of the hosts in the $6-$25 price range will allow you to host multiple accounts. Lunarpages basic account will allow you to do that, I believe their wording even states "unlimited". Basically, you just need a host that will allow unlimited add on domains, unlimited mysql dbs, and unlimited space/bandwidth. LP allows it, but I believe this is also why they are slow. I actually have had several different accounts with LP, and it seems like a server to server issue. Some servers perform well (probably underutilized from a client side) and some are terribly slow. I've also had the same spam block issue on some of their servers.
I do like the way green geeks sells their reselling plans. That's actually what I have is a sprout plan for like $25 a month I believe. It allows you to set up your sites at a higher level, more like an admin. For example, you can control your bandwidth for each site, number of dbs, add on domains, emails etc. Each site ends up getting it's own control panel with a unique login. I've found that very helpful. And it can integrate with client exec for billing purposes (I haven't used that yet).
If it doesn't work with GG, my next step is the Rackspace Cloud Sites I believe they call it.