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This is a drupal question asked by scedwar on 10 March 2008

I’m a volunteer with a small UK charity (all volunteers, no staff) that is looking for some better hosting for our website. It is a busy website with forums and user created content and is only going to get busier:

Our website logs for Jan 2008:
Unique visitors: 3087
Visits: 6574
Page impressions: 465796
Hits: 719548
Bandwidth: 2.95 GB

I expect this to increase steadily as we near a number of big events in the summer with a peak use in the summer.

We outgrew a bluehost hosting account very quickly, and we moved to a UK vps solution (partly because they offered a 50% discount for registered charities). However, I’ve experienced continuous problems with server loads going crazy thanks to processes on other VPSs (oh yes!!!) and our site is offline for at least 30 mins a day, and I’m tired of the *&$% I keep getting fed by their support guys.

We are looking for a company that could offer us cost effective hosting:

1) Hosting for the main website that ensures reliability and server space that will grow as we grow. At the moment we only need round a gigabyte of storage, but I would expect this to rise over time. However, we do need a reasonably powerful machine to cope with Drupal. A VPS is a minimum so that I can configure the server to my liking.

2) Reseller options. We would like to continue to offer hosting to very low use sites for fundraisers on our events. We would therefore need a CPanel system.

3) We are looking for a UK host that would be happy have a more personal relationship and be interested in banner advertising for your hosting on our site and those of participants in our fundraising events.

If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me through the feedback form. Thanks, Stephen

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