Drupal.org: Awesome Company

Ok Drupalers,

I read this entire thread yesterday and found myself no better off than before I had read it. Some people thought "This" hosting company was great but others have had problems with them in the past. Others thought "That" hosting company was no good, but they may have changed things and might be good now.

Well... I decided to take my chances and go with this new company Drupal Value Hosting. I know it's only been a day, but I could not be happier with their hosting and support. I have their basic package with one website currently being hosted. You can check it out at www.mossbargerphoto.com and see how quick it is to load a slide show with a 4.26 MB sound file and about 12 MB in images. I plan to upgrade next month and move other domains over.

I though I'd also let you all know that I put them to the test and downloaded the 20 MB test file from my site. It downloads just as fast as from their own site. I'm even willing to risk running over my bandwidth and let you guys try it out for yourselves. The file can be downloaded at www.mossbargerphoto.com/sites/mossbargerphoto.com/files/testfile20mb.zip. Please end the download when you verify the speed, I'd like to not run over my bandwidth usage if I can help it =D. I did the same test on BizLand.com and GoDaddy.com and had terrible results.

I had two issues right off the bat. The MySQLi extension was not installed with php. I was able to get around this by using the MySQL extension until they installed the MySQLi extension. Because I ran into this problem at 3am, I went to bed after submitting a ticket, but had an answer first thing when I woke up. I also had an issue with my template that was my fault, and they gladly helped me with that as well. I received the same response as if the problem was on their end.

I could not be happier for 7 bucks a month and I will most likely pay 2 years in advance to save even more when I upgrade to the next package. I have hosted with many other companies in the past including BizLand and GoDaddy and can not give a strong enough recommendation for this company.

P.S. Everything seems to be completely configurable on the server through CPanel. For not having much experience with it, I was able to change permissions on my files for installation, and through PHPMyAdmin, restore my Drupal database from my test server at home.

Hope this helps some of those out their searching as I was.