I had one problem with

netsperience — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:06:24 +0000

I had one problem with BlueHost, not a deal breaker but very annoying

At my previous host (using Vdeck) I had a few directories in my home/public_html dir with separate sites. One was my site and I pointed my domain there and had no problems with the other sites in subdomains.

At BH using cPanel, they advised me to use some .htaccess mumbo jumbo to
redirect from public_html to the subdir with my site. It was similar if not identical to some .htaccess code I found on the drupal.org site

It didn't work too well. Links would open in a url placing the directory inside itself (eg http://netsperience.org/netsperience/...) my css didn't work my Gallery2 didn't work it was a mess. The subdomains, however, worked fine.

It appeared that BH actually did point the DNS to home/netspereince/ but ALSO to home/ by default, if that is possible. BlueHost support
told me they cannot point the DNS anywhere except public_html

Again consulting drupal.org I decided best solution was to move my site to the home/public_html dir and it all works fine now.

I do not like having subdomains in dirs within my site but that is the way it is.

At BH this was achieved without .htaccess - when I asked them for a recipe, they noted "your domain is no longer hosted with us, ask your current web host" - yeah, FU too!

Actually, BH is a bit slower overall than the fastest loads at StartLogic, but overall pretty consistent and bearable. I am not using any caching or performance settings on Drupal sites in dev (including my own), and my site with a few flash widgets etc loads in about 15-20 seconds. Other sites in dev that are simpler load a bit quicker.

I have noticed on BH that the first handshake happens quickly (on SL I would sit and wait for 30-60-90-120 seconds just for that first handshake) but it will sometimes stall for a few seconds when about 90% done, not sure why. At SL once the packets started flowing, the process would complete in 10-15 secs without a pause.

Adventures in shared hosting.

Hope bluehost works out for

greg — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:18:15 +0000

Hope bluehost works out for you.
There are 170 other website sharing your IP and your site seems to run ok. If it always runs ok then I guess they have a good enough setup.

Keep us updated.

akopayan — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:48:24 +0000

Keep us updated.

I sent StartLogic a link to

netsperience — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:10:56 +0000

I sent StartLogic a link to the Drupal thread I started "Is StartLogic Slow?" and they are still telling me it might be my code.

My main client's test site database password was changed by SL and I cannot connect to it (I am moving their test sites back to their server on RackSpace so I do not really need this test db) but it is frustrating, I was in the middle of coding a complex multi-table sql operation.

Will keep you posted about further adventures in budget shared hosting.

Good luck with Bluehost,

Ruth — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:30:19 +0000

Good luck with Bluehost, hope to hear your update soon.
I'm really surprised to get these kind of reviews about StartLogic, usually the reviews are positive.
But there are always chances to get into the number of dissatisfied clients, you may get around 14 300 results if you type in "Bluehost sucks" into the Google bar.