Over the last few years the Drupal project has been evolving its relationship with hosting companies and the hosting industry.
History of Drupal and Hosting Companies
A little over a year ago, most of the Drupal community's interactions with hosting companies evolved around complaints about service or complaints about hosting advertising spam on Drupal.org. We started to evolve our relationship with hosting companies by giving them a place to be listed on Drupal.org. We made it relatively easy to be listed on http://drupal.org/hosting as detailed in this hosting directory and advertising policy page. We also switched the hosting forums from hosting recommendations to hosting support forums and added three moderators with a new set of guidelines. Hosting companies felt like they had a legitimate way to advertise their services without having to resort in a cat and mouse game of spamming the hosting forums. This freed up our drupal.org site administrators to focus on more important issues.
Current Hosting Company Outreach
Read »
