Drupal Hosting Review

These are hosts I currently have, or have previously had accounts with over the last year.

• Crucial Paradigm :: Check'em Out »
  PRICE: $6-25/mo
  Admin Tool: cPanel (for shared hosting)

  Best for performance and service, but not the cheapest around.

  Summary: Top Pick! Right now, if i had to recommend one host, it would be these guys. I'm running a few sites on Crucial Paradigm shared hosting, and a few others on one of their xen VPS setups. Their email support is great, and their servers seem uncrowded. You might notice their plans don't offer as much storage or bandwidth as others. To me, that's a good sign, and represents honest selling.
  Highly Recommended

• JustHost :: Check'em Out »
  PRICE: $2.95/mo (w/coupon: 50OFF)
  Admin Tool: cPanel (for shared hosting)

  Cheapest cpanel host around. Performance ain't bad, can't speak to service yet.

  Summary: Best Cheap Host! I signed up with these guys in February 2009 (this site is hosted with justhost now), and so far I'm really happy with what 3 bucks a month gets me. Free domain, cpanel, and "unlimited" transfer. Read their terms for limits on that "unlimited" figure before you sign up though. So far they've been super for static /cached content, and OK for dynamic stuff (like running through admin screens in drupal). They're probably on par with ANhosting / midphase as far as performance. They're likely overselling, but so far the price:performance ratio isn't bad.
  Highly Recommended

• MidPhase :: Check'em Out »
  PRICE: $5-8/mo
  Admin Tool: cPanel

  Good balance of price and service. Intermittent performance.

  Summary: This site, DrupalHostingReview.com, used to be hosted at MidPhase. Generally a great balance of performance, price and service, but server loads can get high at times. Slowdowns became too frequent so I moved the site to justhost. Still my experience with Midphase is overall pretty positive.
  Recommended

• DrupalValueHosting :: Check'em Out »
  PRICE: $10/mo
  Admin Tool: cPanel
  Summary: DVH is a new hosting provider. They started out really strong but have suffered some growing pains on the support side.
  Blazing fast and cheap, but poor support options. I have seven unanswered support tickets over 3 months old. I still have an account with them (even though i requested cancellation over 6 months ago !).
  Stay Away
• 1and1 :: Check'em Out »
  PRICE: $4-10/mo
  Admin Tool: Proprietary, clunky (but, their vps uses Plesk)
  Summary: Cheap. Good place to buy cheap domains. Shared hosting runs mySql on remote servers which usually = high latency, and slow load times for DB intensive apps like Drupal. Server software (PHP, apache) is often outdated. Also, their cheapest packages can't run Drupal's clean urls out of the box, don't give you ssh and php's multibyte extension isn't installed. I keep an account with them primarily for domains, secondarily for cheap back-up hosting.

  They also have competitively priced VPS (29.99 / month for 256mb ram).
  Not Recommended (for shared hosting)

• AN Hosting :: Check'em Out »
  PRICE: $7/mo
  Admin Tool: cPanel
  Summary: These guys were bought by MidPhase a while back, and as far as i know, are essentially rebadged MidPhase hosting.
  Recommended
• MediaTemple :: Check'em Out »
  PRICE: $20/mo
  Admin Tool: Proprietary, sexy, mostly intuitive
  Summary I've tried the GridService, even with the add-on MySQL GridContainers (~30/month alltogether) and Drupal performance still sucks. Like 1and1, this is due to mySql DB being on a different physical box than your hosting. Faster than 1and1 shared hosting... but still far from 'fast': Proof that a sexy site and control panel do not = great hosting. Not recommended for Drupal sites.
  (Note: I do not have experience with their $50+ DV service, only GS)
  Not Recommended