Drupaltized for *real* this time!

[errantember]

I've been beating my head against the wall trying to install Drupal on the RadioMac for several weeks. I have a bunch of projects on hold right now because I can't get it working, including my official professional site, which I really need up to I can make business cards, etc. I finally gave up doing it fully manually and switched back to MAMP, which pre-installs compatible and tested versions of Apache, PHP, and MySQL. I *finally* got both Drupal 5.15 and 6.9 working on my system! No error messages, no missing GD, no whining about cron running. Both versions are functioning 100% error free.

Tomorrow I will actually add *content!*

I'm also shopping for hosting services. I've had at least one vote for Dreamhost, though I have some concerns about the speed of SQL queries on them using Drupal. For now my websites will probably be pretty low traffic, but I can reasonably assume I will eventually have some social network stuff with 100+ users on it. Any other recommendations?

Comments

[bouncyone.livejournal.com]

i've been using dreamhost for minor hosting and have found it to be wonderful. still, i have no clue about your particular needs. i don't use much of the sql and nor do i have a lot of web traffic.

[errantember.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the info. Every data point helps.

[worldmegan.livejournal.com]

Dreamhost and Bluehost are the ones I hear recommended most often for small undertakings; I also used some folks called "PHPhost" (I think) a long time ago -- I really liked them but they didn't have some of the reseller functionality I wanted so I eventually moved on. Tempting to go back to them actually, ha ha.

[errantember.livejournal.com]

Excellent, thank you. Can you elaborate on the reseller functionality? I'm not exactly clear what kind of reselling you mean.

[worldmegan.livejournal.com]

Historically I've only gone with hosts that have the capacity to handle many different hosting accounts under one "master" account, so that I can easily administer a ton of sites. Having to log in separately to each client site when they're all on the same server is a big pain in the butt. Incidently, these days I don't do the same kind of hosting I used to... so it probably wouldn't matter as much to me now. Which tempts me back to PHPhost. But changing hosts is a HUGE pain for someone with as many sites as I handle. So screw that. Only in desperate circumstances. :D

M.

[gailmom.livejournal.com]

wow....it sounds like English...but it doesn't actually form sentences I can understand...

;)

*smootch*

[errantember.livejournal.com]

Getting Drupal, which is a very flexible system for putting up websites, installed requires having all those other buzzwords installed, too, and set up exactly right. It turns out that on Mac OS, this is a *huge* pain in the ass. MAMP is a program that basically installs and configures everything for you so it's less of a headache, and using it allowed me to get Drupal to work.

[gailmom.livejournal.com]

well spiffy doo. Glad you found it then. :)