Hosting

I've been hosting my Drupal sites with AN Hosting for over a year now, and in my opinion they're the best Drupal host available. In this review, I'll explain why I chose AN Hosting as my Drupal hosting service, and give you a few examples of why I'm still using them a year later.

Why I Use AN Hosting For My Drupal Sites

Drupal makes a lot of database queries. In fact, database response time is the number one factor affecting the speed of your Drupal site. The longer it takes for your MySQL server to respond, the slower your pages are going to load. If you want fast Drupal hosting, you need fast database access.

Many hosting companies will put your database on slow, overloaded servers in order to save money. I won't name any names, but if you've been burned before, you know who I'm talking about. If it takes 10+ seconds just to load the Drupal admin page, it's time to change hosts.

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Wondering just how fast Drupal 6 is? So was I, so I set up a quick Drupal 6 demo site on another domain of mine, and generated a bunch of random content using the Devel module. The site has a mix of 1000 pages and stories, most of which have 5 comments and 5 taxonomy terms assigned to them. Full caching and compression is enabled. Clean URLs are working and I'm using the default .htaccess file.

Give it a test run, I think you'll be impressed with the speed. The demo is hosted on the same AN Hosting account as this site, so if you like what you see, I recommend checking them out.

Is your Drupal site slow? Are you losing traffic because of high load times? Your database could be the problem. Read on to find out why your site is lagging, and see how the right server configuration can speed it up.

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