Advanced Hosting

After trying out the VPS hosting available from Chunkhost, I decided to move off of Hostgator shared hosting and move to something with a bit more power such as a VPS. At the time I was shopping around for a new hosting company, Chunkhost, who I was looking to get my VPS from, was actually out of VPS hosts and was in the process of securing new hardware and setting it up. Initially I was shocked to hear that Chunkhost was out of "Chunks", but I guess every good company has to go through an expansion or two before they are more prepared for that sort of situation. I decided to give Linode VPS hosting a try, and so far I am very pleased with my decision.

A few months ago I was told about a great offer that ChunkHost was having for testing their new Virtual Server hosting. They are currently still having this great offer to Beta test their new Chunk hosting service. A chunk is very similar to a slice which Slicehost offers, where they offer a virtual server within a larger cloud server environment. I have not used Slicehost personally, but several of my colleagues have, and they were quite satisfied with that service.

Currently, I have been using Hostgator as my primary Drupal host for over 1 year. I was blown away by the services they offered. I decided to sign up once I saw the pricing tiers. For what I was currently paying for on 2 accounts from 1 and 1, I was able to get a virtually unlimited account for about $2 more per month. I thought this was the best choice for an aspiring Drupal web developer.