Drupal Hosting : Fast shared hosting?

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This is a drupal question asked by Hory on 03 January 2008

Can anyone recommend some shared hosting that is also fast? I’m not talking about bandwidth, but whatever aspects are involved in the course of processing AJAX calls. Not only is Drupal a demanding CMS, but my project will particularly require many AJAX calls.
It seems that nowadays, shared hosting companies are cheap and offer literally hundreds of gigabytes of hosting. But I have no way to tell how fast they are.

Please don’t recommend Dreamhost. In my experience, it has been incredibly slow (15-20 seconds to load a page) even for vanilla Drupal installations (particularly MySQL query processing).

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