[Web4lib] Drupal Hosting (was: Web4lib Digest, Vol 36, Issue 25)

[Cary Gordon]

Siteground is great for hosting a demo site or even a public site for  
a small organization. I use them to host our local neighborhood  
association and a local church. If you go with them, I suggest that  
you do your own Drupal install and don't use the automatic  
(Fantastico) one that they supply.

Moving up the ladder, Bryght offers a configurable hosted service for  
$20/mo. I haven't used it, but Bryght (now part of Raincity) is deeply  
involved in the Drupal community, and they have a great reputation.

The next step up would be our (Cherry Hill) own LibrarySite hosted  
Drupal services, which include training, configuration and library  
specific support. We think that this is a great package, particularly  
for libraries that have less than abundant available technical  
resources.

The penultimate option is hosting on a Virtual Private Server. With  
VPS, you get most of the benefits of your own server at a very  
reasonable price. We offer VPS services with Drupal support and  
maintenance, as does Bryght.

Finally, you can get a freestanding managed server. The main  
advantages of this model over the VPS are physical security (usually  
more a policy issue than practical one), and the possibility of almost  
unlimited bandwidth (at an almost unlimited price). We are among the  
thousands of companies offering this level of service.

Cary Gordon, MLS
The Cherry Hill Company
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On Mar 26, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Nicole Jebbia wrote:
> We're looking at moving to a CMS for our website, but in order to do  
> so we
> need to find a web hosting service.  Does anyone have any  
> recommendations?
> (drupal site)
>
>