I've spent a little time this week hunting down a well priced Drupal-friendly hosting environment for a client of mine.  Actually, for years I've been extolling the virtues of shared/virtual hosts like Dreamhost who have been bumping up disk space and bandwidth allowances before gmail wet its bed for the first time - but then I signed up @ Rackspace and have fallen in love with how muc quicker Drupal runs when its file structure is on the same machine as its database - especially when that machine solely exists to power your own sites.

The only problem with Rackspace is that it costs over $500 per month - so for most smaller clients - especially NGOs, its out of the question... Anyway - so I was out hunting and came across The Planet, one of the Net's most popular hosts whom I hadn't checked out in a while.  Well, it turns out that not only are their dedicated hosting packages reasonable (I'm signing us up for 1 tomorrow @ Design Guru for $95/month), the company uses Drupal itself!

That's right - check out the screenshot above - look familiar?  Recently, The Planet unveiled its Knowledge Base and I'm happy to say that its been built in a stock Garland install of Drupal :)  Actually, the site is a great example of how Drupal can quickly provide a framework for an interactive FAQ/knowledgebase - simply using CCK and Views.

I'll post something next week to let you know how the new hosting package is working out y'all...