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Hey folks,

I work for an NPO and currently we are running Joomla 1.0.x and CiviCRM 1.9 on a shared web host (Bluehost) and we have totally outgrown them.  We run into CPU limits occasionally and in general its just a hassle to be on a shared host.  However we do not employ a true sys-admin (I do everything technical and I am really a developer, not a sys-admin) so we do enjoy having a certain level of managed hosting and a control panel.  In the process of changing hosting, we are probably going to upgrade CiviCRM and probably the CMS, too.  Part of my current research task is to really evaluate seriously if Joomla is right, if we should upgrade it, and if we should upgrade Civi.  Based on custom searches alone, I feel good about upgrading Civi.

So here are our main requirements, and I would greatly appreciate if anyone could offer suggestions or personal experience with your own solutions:

• relatively high traffic allowance
• CiviMail works (I'm talking about email limits, bounce handling, etc.)
• control panel (to make it easier to maintain without a real sysadmin on staff)
• Java capable would be nice, to be able to use CiviReport
• CPU limits that can handle really long RSS indexing jobs (a custom search engine, a blog feed aggregator)

That is what we need out of hosting.  The other issue is are their worthwhile gains to upgrading Joomla, or would their be worthwhile gains to switching to Drupal?

Thanks for any input you can offer.