A few of you have told me on a couple of occasions that you’ve tried to get to this site and it’s been unavailable. Well, it happens to me all the time it seems, at least once a day. It just happened a few minutes ago and the site was down for about 15 minutes or so.
And when you have a huge FRIDAY QUESTION happening, you don’t need people to see errors when they come here.
Why does the site go down everyday for 15-20 minutes at a time? I don’t know. My host is Midphase or AN Hosting and they tell me that there are some sites on the server I share that bog things down and that they’ll shut them off soon. I guess that can be true, but it just doesn’t seem to add up to a standard, daily expectation of downtime.
I’m just tired of it…the site sometimes takes awhile to load anyways and I just have to think there are better places to be out there.
So what to do?
I know Jason Clark at Inner88 just made a switch, so maybe I need to follow what he did. I have a GoDaddy account, but their control panel and interface seems a lot more trouble than the one I have now.
Anyone have any suggestions on a great hosting company? I’d love to find one that will be able to help move the site over for me, because I don’t want to lose anything in the transfer if I do it on my own, plus I’m not sure I’d be able to do it without screwing stuff up.
So funny that it just died for like 4 minutes after I posted this blog.
And yet it’s back now and actually pretty fast.
Well, you probably want to move away from the standard shared hosting accounts since they basically try to cram as many sites as they can on a machine. A WHOIS check on this says that there are over 1000 sites on this IP address. The shared plans are cheap, but you get what you pay for.
You can get your own virtual server plan for about $35-40 bucks a month and you basically have your own machine. If you don’t want to pay that much a month you can hop on to Uncle Adrian’s machine for what you may pay currently.
As far as hoping for a service that would move the site for you, I doubt you will find a place that will do that without making you pay for it. I could be wrong though.
Maybe Uncle Adrian will do it for him
Hmm, I’ll call you about this, I’m interested…
Check out Lunarpages Web Hosting. They are still shared hosting, but they are incredibly cheap (less than $100/year!), offer TONS of features and software, and have an incredible customer service plan. They are where I am moving when my contract is up. Good luck!
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We use Joyent here at work and have been pretty happy. Their prices are decent, though it’s a Solaris platform, so you might have a little ramp up time. Pretty decent dashboard (though I do most things at the command line) and it should be able to fully support your platform.
They’re virtual servers, but run really fast and stably.
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