I currently host this Drupal blog using a VPS with a company called A2B2 (they have a new website coming soon) and in the past 12 months have been nothing but impressed by them… so impressed, in fact, that I've given out many personal recommendations and I've even recommended a friend who has transferred all his main sites over!
To add to their arsenal, A2B2 launched a sister company a few months back called CheapVPS.co.uk which aims at a slightly lower-end market to that targeted by A2B2. Basically A2B2 use slightly higher-end hardware whereas CheapVPS offer lower prices - but on marginally less-capable hardware.
On top of A2B2's VPS server & CheapVPS offering a more budget VPS, A2B2 have now launched A2B2XS - a Shared Hosting service. They currently offer 1Gb space + 25Gb Bandwidth for under £20 per year - that's less than £1.70 a month!
Their shared packages include LiteSpeed Webserver 3, PHP 5, MySQL 5, SVN, Zend Framework & more. This is MORE than enough to run a cheap and cheerful drupal site on!
I would advise emailing their sales team before hand to check if they actually SUPPORT a drupal site, however on my A2B2 VPS, this drupal blog runs perfectly - and I get nearly over 6,000 page impressions a day. Any support requests are dealt with swiftly and politely. I cannot recommend them enough!
thanks
Do you have a referral name to give out? Also, what VPS package do you have to support this site, as drupal typically requires more RAM then most CMS (or so for the modules I'm running.)
I've asked about referral
I've asked if A2B2 have any kind of referral system. I'll post when they get back to me.
As for my VPS setup - I have 15Gb of space (currently using around 5Gb including around 1 week of rotating backup), 512Mb RAM (burstable to 1Gb) & around 200Gb bandwidth per month (which is on a 100Mb connection which is shared between myself and the other VPS users, I think its on a fair-share basis). This cost me (very recently) £177.66 for 1 year - that works out at just under £15 a month.
I'm running Apache, however I have disabled a lot of the mod's I dont need (like WebDAV, etc). This reduced the Apache thread sizes.
I also have the advantage that I can tweak about with things like phpEaccelerator to speed up code running time and MySQL QCache to optimize queries.
Reply for A2B2
Jst got the reply (less than 15 mins after sending it)...
1) They dont have a refferal system in place for VPS customers yet - but they do for A2B2XS customers so if you (or anyone else who reads this) can let me know when they've signed up then I can let A2B2 know,
2) A2B2 have confirmed for me that they DO support Drupal installs.
I have some hosted sites there too
Yeah I have a few sites hosted there through a friend who manages my hosting for me.
The technical aspects of the service are ok, although I've had one or two fairly serious outages (nearly half a day) and it's not the fastest, although that's probably me using too many modules :)
I'll probably have a look at the VPS offering.
Really?
I got an email saying that the A2B2XS service had only been launched recently...