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Hosting Provider Information

This listing is maintained and updated by members of the CiviCRM community. None of the providers listed here have been reviewed, vetted or approved in any way by the CiviCRM core team.

The goal of this page is to provide a complete listing of hosting providers that are known to have environments that are either compatible or incompatible with CiviCRM. This will hopefully aid in troubleshooting.

Hosting Provider

Hosting package / plan

CMS name and version 

PHP version 

MySQL version 

CiviCRM version 

Contact / Reviewer

comment

CiviOnline

From $49/month

Latest Drupal

5.3

5.1

Latest stable versions of Drupal and CiviCRM always tested and always working.

CiviOnline

Fully managed and always updated CiviCRM SAAS Provider. Your Drupal and CiviCRM are always updated for you.

Eukhost Cloud Hosting

£33.00 GBP/month

Latest Joomla, Drupal, Magento

5.3.8

5.x

All versions of CiviCRM Supported

Eukhost.com

Offering wide spectrum of fully managed Cloud hosting services fully compatible with CiviCRM.

2020Media.com

GBP9.99/month

Latest Drupal
Latest Joomla

5.3

5

3.x


UK Boutique Hosting provider. Drupal/Joomla + CiviCRM installed and setup by highly skilled experienced technical staff

A2 Hosting

From $4.95/mo

Latest Drupal
Latest Joomla

5.3

5.1.x

3.x


CiviCRM Hosting available on all Web Hosting plans. 24/7 staff will install CiviCRM free. cPanel. Free CDN.

CiviHosting
Shared and VPS Linux Hosting

From $15 a month

(Bulk Discount available)

Latest stable versions of Drupal, Joomla and CiviCRM always tested and always working.

5.3 (5.2 also available)

5.1

Latest stable versions of Drupal, Joomla and CiviCRM always tested and always working.

CiviHosting

CiviCRM hosting specialists. CiviCRM runs perfectly (including CiviMail) and they install it for you. 100% satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.

"We make a general recommendation in Using CiviCRM against shared hosting providers. CiviHosting is a noteworthy exception in that they tune their servers properly for CiviCRM." - Joe Murray

FusionHost

$3.95 / Month

Drupal, Joomla,
WordPress, Mambo & More

Php 5

MySQL 5

CivicCRM Support

 

FusionHost is a Leading Provider of Unlimited Web Hosting at Affordable Prices :: Get a FREE Domain Name & 1-Click Software Installers with All Hosting Plans.

GreenGeeks

$6.95 per month

Drupal, Joomla, Mambo & others

Php 5

MySQL 5

CivicCRM Support

 

Dual Quad Core Servers with super fast RAID-10 storage system. High performance MySQL. Great speeds and reliability

HostingOn

$4.17

Drupal, Joomla,

Php5

MySQL

 

 

Doesn't support CivicCRM as will not support the InnoDB storage engine required

Spiretech.com (VPS)

$99 per month

Drupal 6 and CiviCRM 3.0+

5.2

5

Latest stable

 

True root VPS hosting for those who are tired of messing around with cheap shared hosting or VPS that restrict emails or other features.  Installs with CentOS5 and Webmin if desired. Not cheap but worth it.  Several of my clients use Spiretech with success.

site5.com

basic hosting plan ($7)

Drupal 4.7.4 and 6.4

5.2

4 +InnoDB

1.5 and 2.1

Jochen Hartmann

works but civiCRM is very slow , work with civimail too
send till 250 emails per hour, possible set spf record, privacy policy

 

SiteCloud

$5.95 per month

Drupal, Joomla, Mambo & others

PHP 5

MySQL 5

CivicCRM Support

 

Cloud hosting infrastructure. Super fast and super reliable

www.24shells.net

vps $24.99/month (half price for new clients)

drupal 6.x

5.2

5

2.x

 

no limits sending emails with civimail

 

Bluehost.com

Shared - 6.95

Drupal 5.x (and 6.x)

Joomla 1.6
Drupal 7
(both available with one click installs!)

5.2.x
(looking into updgrading but no time estimate given)

5

1.9 and 2.05 and 2.1

 

Pretty decent given price and the LOADS of features. I have CiviCRM working without CiviMail (might get to that soon). Running on Drupal. If your site has few thousands of visits pe day, pay attention to mysql_slow_queries and cpu_exceeded_logs or your account will be suspended and in 15 days deleted.

 

godaddy.com (VPS)

Economy Plan
$29.99/month (monthly)

Drupal 5.7

5.2.4

5.0.45

2.0

John Daharsh

Installs easily on Fedora Core 7. Centos 5 should work just as well. Install Webmin (free web-based server admin tool)  for easier server setup and kill Tomcat to free up memory (auto starts for the Godaddy Simple Control Panel). You'll need to set some file permissions (very easy in Webmin - based on error messages from civi installer) and should up the memory in .htaccess to 64M. I have yet to fully test but so far everything works well.

 

godaddy.com (shared)


 

 

 

 

phalseid

don't even bother! lousy control panel for database creation
also see this forum post about godaddy joomla/civicrm installation problems: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,5053.0.html

 

Uptimehost

Clustered cloud web hosting - $25/mo

Drupal 5.x (and 6.x)

5

5

1.9 and 2.05 and 2.1

 

Web hosting is on their clustered cloud platform which starts at $25.00 and can scale automatically. Offers 100% Uptime SLA, 24/7 telephone support, 30-day money back guarantee & tons more cool features.

 

HostGator.com

All plans are now capable of hosting CiviCRM. 
$5/month and up.

Any

5.2.9

5.1.30

1.x, 2.x and 3.x have all been run successfully.

@TallDavid

Support for InnoDB is now available on all packages (previously, this was limited to dedicated server packages). 




strappedhost.com

5.99 + database

Any

4.4.4/5.1.6

4.1.11


 

phalseid

still working on it
uses exim for the mailer, so CivicMail won't work

 

startlogic.com 

basic VPS plan

Drupal 4.7.4

5.04

 

1.5

Jochen Hartmann

does not work: I have just been informed that due to incompatibilities with PLESK (their control panel), Startlogic is unable to upgrade their PHP beyond 5.04.

 

icdsoft.com

basic $6/mo

Drupal 4.x 5.x and 6.x

4.4.4/5.1.6

 

1.5/1.6beta,  2.1 and 2.2


CiviCRM and CiviMail works well on my sites, no limits to send emails with civimail


Ace-Host.net

basic $5.95/mo with 12 month commitment

Drupal 4.7.4

5.0.4

 

1.5

Michael Mahler

CiviCRM runs okay on 3 sites I have with them


CanadaWebHosting.com


any

any

 


any

review by Joe Murray (no connection to ISP)

CiviCRM works well on my sites, good support, some issues setting up CiviMail

 

DreamHost

free for USA non-profits.

Drupal 5.0beta

5.1.2

5

1.8

impolite review by Joe Murray (no connection to ISP),
Chris Mott 

CiviCRM works well except that CiviMail is limited by outbound mail throttle of 100/hr from Dreamhost anti-spam policy. (200/hr for shell accounts.) DH may be willing to lift the throttle under compliance with strict rules. Shared hosting environment also causes variable response times (less politely, the page load times are crap for some accounts, mainly due to slow MySQL query times)


site5.com

multisite plan $8.25/mo with 12 mo commitment

Drupal 4.7 CVS

5.2 .0

 

1.6 beta

Dave Hansen-Lange

CiviCRM works well.  If you need more PHP memory, simply adjust your site's php.ini.  Site5 has great support and their plans include everything that you'd ever need (except no Tomcat or Java servlets). 

 

Mediatemple.net (GS grid server plan)

$20 / month
30 day free trial 

Drupal 4.7 -6.x

choice of 4.44 or 5.16 (using 4.44)

4.1.11

CiviCRM 1.6 - 2.2, CiviMail, CiviContribute, CiviMember

Jochen Hartmann

Shared web hosting environment, running on this 'grid-server' thing that mediatemple invented, which is a cluster of apache installations. Seems pretty stable, you have control over your own php.ini settings and fairly good ssh options (debian3.1). Tech support is usually very quick and friendly though there are limits to what they can help with. Looking to upgrade to a DV (dedicated virtual) plan soon. (ds till 500 mails/hour, DV no limits per email)

 

Prometheus Labor Communications

Sliding scale, dependent on organization size, starting at $15/month

Drupal 5.1

4.3.10-18.1 (Debian package)

4.1

CiviCRM 1.7,
CiviContribute
CiviMember

Steve Dondley

Specializes in providing affordable shared-hosting solutions for labor unions and labor-friendly organizations.

 

River Valley Web Hosting and Design

$5 to $15 per month.   

Drupal 5.1 

PHP 5 

MySQL 5 

CiviCRM 1.7,
CiviContribute
CiviMember

Alfred Nutile 

Total solutions that are affordable and creative.

 

Ideal Solution

Starts at $17.95 per month

Drupal 5.1, Joomla 1.0.12

4.4.6 or 5.2.1

4.1.22

Any the customer wants to install.

Jeff Lawton

We provide hosting and a broad range of custom development options.


LunarPages

 

Joomla 

 

 

 

 

Lunarpages doesn't support the InnoDB storage engine required.

 

www.1and1.com (http://)


Drupal 5.x
Drupal 6.x

PHP5
(override in .htaccess)

MySQL5

CiviCRM 1.9

David Geilhufe

really slow, PHP memory limited (10MB) upgradable at 20MB by php.ini, but works OK

www.linode.com

$20/mo

 

 

 

 

 

VPS provider. Moved from shared host and amazed at the difference. Used XAMPP, Drupal and CiviCRM ... the various auto installers made everything work fine.

WebHosting.UK.com

VPS STARTER £15 / Month

Drupal 4.7.x or 5.x

PHP 5.2.x

MySQL  5.0

Client can install any version of CiviCRM

Josh

Offer wide array of fully managed hosting services and CiviCRM runs fine.

http://www.slicehost.com/

VPS $20-$70 / month

self-install

self-install

self-install

self-install


Self-managed VPS with ajax web interface for console access, backup snapshot management etc.

http://rimuhosting.com/

VPS $20 - $90, dedicated as well

self-install, currently using 5.x

5.1.6 (or what you want)

MySQL 5.0.22 (or what you want)

self-install

review by Joe Murray (no connection to ISP)

Host a number of Drupal developers, and have a one or two on staff. Excellent support. Self-managed VPS with  web interface for console access, backup snapshot management etc.

LiquidWeb

Starts at $50/month for VPS, $14.95 for shared, $149 for dedicated

self-install, I am currently using Drupal 5.x on all sites

Comes standard with PHP4, 5.2.5 installed by request

MySQL 4.1.22

self-install, I'm currently using 1.9 on multiple sites

 

reports suggest good support, apparently  CiviMail will run on the VPS and Dedicated servers
[Note from one looking for a new host: Liquid Web was recommened highly by a number of people from the New England Joomla users group who love their customer service.  however the php specs (http://helo.liquidweb.com/info.php) on shared hosting have a memory limit of 33mb and it is recommended that civiCRM run at 128mb]

Cruiskeen Consulting LLC

Custom Drupal starting $50/month

Drupal 6.10

PHP 5.2.5

MySQL  5.1

2.2

Steve Hanson

We do custom hosting - providing Drupal/CiviCRM module and software maintenance.

aiso.net (green hosting)

$150/yr

Drupal.5.7
(self-install)

PHP 5.1.6
 

MYSQL 5.0.22

2.0 (self-install)

 

Had issues with Innodb engine, making things hard.  350 e-mails/day making CiviMail less useful for some.  Really poor admin panel and webmail interface.

www.micfo.com

$99.50/yr

Self Installation

Php 4,& Php 5

MySQL 4 & MySQL 5

Self Installation

877-817-9595

No setup fees, cPanel, SSH access, co-operative support staff, 5 GB web space and up to 5 GB database space

http://www.tigerserversTigerServersâ

VPS Hosting - $19/mo

Any

PHP 5
 

MYSQL 5

Self-Install

Mike Grant

VPS/Dedicated service allows for custom configuration and deployment. Comes managed for customers that need server-level issues resolved.

DrupalValueHosting.com

World's Best Hosting Package $40/month

Drupal 5.x, 6.x, Joomla

PHP 5 (+SOAP, DOM)

5 +InnoDB

CiviCRM 2.x (latest) with CiviMail, CiviContribute, CiviMember, CiviEvent (v1.9 also supported)

Amit Gupta

Free Install of CiviCRM of your choice. More Details, Unrestricted Email Limits, Hosted on Dual Quad Core Xeon 5420 'Harpertown' 8 x 2.5 GHz, 2 x 12 MB L2 Cache, 32 GB RAM, Fastest SA-SCSI 15K RPM Harddiscs in RAID10 Arrays!, providing the fastest performance for your CiviCRM!
(ticket support could make you to wait  days/weeks, no chat assistance, no phone assistance)

www.micfo.com

vps 40$/month

drupal 6.x

 

 

civicrm 2.2

 

limited to sending 500 emails per hour, live assistance 24 hour

civicrm hosting in Italy

starting from 24€ per month + domain with 1gb/month

Drupal 6.4

Php5.2

mysql 5.0.x

Civicrm 2.1 stable, and 2.0 too

 

asking for free to install mysql with innodb, civicrm and civimail are going perfectly.
(web site is in italian language)

eApps

VPS hosting, starting at $10/mo.

J1.5, D6.x

PHP 5.x

MySQL 5.x

Running v2.0 and v2.1

 

Affordable managed VPS hosting; $20/mo level includes JRE (for CiviReport); lots of room for growth with hosting levels

Thinkhost

Free for non-profit's, otherwise $7.95/ month

Joomla 1.5.8

PHP 5

MySQL 5

2.1.4

Review by Christopher Parker (no connection with Thinkhost)

Had a bit of struggle getting civicrm installed.  See here for a method that worked: removing some files from install and FTPing them up after.  civiCRM works, as does mail. [update: looks like version 2.2 will be easier.  yea!]

civiCRM is a bit too resource intentsive for Thinkhost accounts as judged by the limits on their service agreement.  Lobo wrote: "CiviCRM does require more than 0.5M of memory (more like 64M). Some operations (including search and import) are also likely to take more than 0.1 CPU seconds. Might want to consider paying a bit more and getting a more powerful hosting plan."
Despite that, search and import do seem to work for me.

Dedupe on 2.0 doesn't work - takes too much system resouces. Haven't tried 2.1 which uses less resources.

Despite the published limits, I've found Thinkhost helpful and willing to temporarily relax their limits at night on occassional one-time basis (for installs and dedupes).  But since it's going beyond their service agreement to do so, they may run out of patience if this happens too often.
 
Support can be slow - it's e-mail based and can take a few days to respond (or other times it's quite quick).  40% of the time it is less than an hour and another 30% of the time, less than 3 hours.  The remainder of the time it's 24 hours, or even up to 48 hours.  When a problem takes several responces, back and forth to solve, this may be too slow for critical organizational infrastructure.
The quality of responces from support has always been quite good.  Also it's nice to deal with real people (nice people) at the other end (and it's a small company, so it's the same people, which I like).

Occassional 500 errors have prevented access to website  (I just try again, but not all users do).

I like that Thinkhost seems to have a social conscience as a company and that my website is powered with renewable energy.

[http://www.stratascale.com/
]

Starts at $50 mo.

Drupal 5x, 6x

PHP 5.1

MySQL 5x

CiviCRM 2x

Review by Bob Schmitt, (no connection to co.)

Stratascale provides several levels of hosting, from shared-cloud services, to private-cloud, to dedicated servers. We used their dedicated servers (at about $800/mo per server). Pros: Proprietary interface to install/provision dedicated hardware; nice interface to their router and firewall for custom network partitioning -- very useful for implementing various caching schemes. Cons: Price (obviously); support; and supported operating systems (Red Hat Enterprise 5). RHE doesn't support php 5.2 out of the box and we didn't get the help we needed installing/configuring php from source, which was ultimately a deal killer for us.

http://neospire.net

Varies. Generally around $400/server

Drupal 6x

PHP 5.2, 5.3

MySQL 5x

CiviCRM 2x

Review by Bob Schmitt, (no connection to co.)

Neospire only provides managed hosting of dedicated servers. Getting their servers provisioned takes about 48 hrs. Once provisioned the servers operated flawlessly, with very minimal downtime over a year's period. Pros: Good customer support, willingness to help with "odd" installation problems. Price: they compare very favorably with other dedicated server companies. Good bandwidth and no contention issues, even under high loads. Cons: Price - if comparing with cloud based services; plus they advertise full-Drupal compatibility with their standard install (Debian), but we had to install a bunch of PHP extensions (uploadprogress, pecl, pear) to make things work for us.

iPage.com

basic, as low as $3.95/month with 3 year commit

Drupal, Joomla and others

5.2.12

5.0.83

 

 

Failed to be able to install and run CiviCRM, as they do not enable InnoDB with MySql.  Otherwise they were very reasonable, had good tools and superb support...But cannot do CiviCRM as of Sept 2010.

StratoGen VMware Hosting

£75 per month

Drupal, Joomla,
WordPress, Mambo & More

PHP5

MYSQL5

self-install but fully supported

 

No restrictions on OS and civiCRM installed without a hitch for me.

Other suggestions are http://www.opensourcehost.com

StratoGen VMware Hosting

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  1. Feb 12, 2009

    would be great if we could add a column that made it easy to see if a host was good/recommended or bad. and perhaps split into two tables, one for the good/recommended ones, and one for the hosts to avoid.

  2. Jun 28, 2011

    Just as an FYI... LunarPages provides InnoDB on their LPCP (Lunar Pages Control Panel) servers, so you can now install on their servers.  We are currently being moved from their Control Panel servers to an LPCP server so that we can install CiviCRM.  I will update you to let you know how the install goes, and again after we've used CiviCRM on their servers for a while.


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