I am looking for a hosting service for Drupal to offer all of my next customers, to be sure that I will not have problems with the development.
I am writing down a list of the features that Drupal hosting services should have:
1. Control panel with zip compression / decompression function
After I downloaded drupal to a new server, I usually do not have access to ssh, and php scripts sometimes cause file permissions problems. Better to do it from the control panel.
2. PHP memory limit: 128 MB (or more?)
I no longer want to see messages from memory. This is an important point.
3. PHP post_max_size
Some users could not upload long videos (with CCK Upload fields) because of this limitation. What is reasonable value for him?
4. Enable rewriting module
I'm not sure that all hosting services are enabled. Or I'm wrong? I have to ask for this if I want to use clean URLs, right?
5. IMAP email? I want to be able to set up email services for my clients. They should be able to configure multi-tenant email applications for clients using their email account, and a copy of their email should remain on the server. This is IMAP .. right? Should I ask for this if I need this email feature, or can I handle it differently?
6. Automatic backup. I want my site to always be online. This means that a copy of my drupal installation should be automatically created on the backup server and ready for use if the server is down.
Could you fix or suggest features to add? Thank!