Comments on: Moving

By: Peter Rome

Peter Rome — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:15:43 +0000

SO congrats on that happening and hope to find it soon!

By: Resveratrol Extract

Resveratrol Extract — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:42:38 +0000

I think if we all could contribute a share, we could easily host all our sites on a VPS and still not lose out on flexibility.

By: Simon Wilby

Simon Wilby — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:06:12 +0000

Good luck with your move. Just backup as always in case something goes wrong.

By: chat

chat — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:12:56 +0000

No problem. I'll be missing the dedicated servers but the new host seems good enough for our personal sites while saving a little dough in the process. Plus, adding unlimited bandwidth and disk space to the equation that my dedicated servers lacked, it's a nice trade off even though we might be on a server with other people on the 3rd party host provider. From what I can tell, the bandwidth is better and faster and the servers they're on is like combining 10 of my old servers together for CPU and processing power.

By: springwood computers

springwood computers — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:48:23 +0000

We're hosting at the moment and it's really quite a bit of trouble! Maybe more than it's worth.. Tough industry!

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:57:37 +0000

It’s Drew. He is mein host.

By: Sire

Sire — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:43:11 +0000

And which Host provider is that?

By: drew

drew — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:49:30 +0000

Ray's host provider is just that awesome.

By: hari

hari — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:09:14 +0000

Hi Drew,

did you get my email about a reasonably cheap VPS option? I think you might find that a better mix between shared hosting and totally dedicated servers. On the other hand, if you are not keen on administrating it, I am more than willing to share the duties involved and the cost. I think if we all could contribute a share, we could easily host all our sites on a VPS and still not lose out on flexibility.

By: drew

drew — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:36:06 +0000

Nameservers changes still pointing to old servers so it's a waiting game to migrate the site.

But yeah, I'm saddened a little to move from my own dedicated servers that I own, have full physical access to, full control over to a shared hosting plan. But so far, it's gone good. I can't beat going from the price I was paying to what the price is now. Literally 2 years of shared hosting costs as much as I was paying for one month for my co-located servers. And to top if all off, I still managed to get a dedicated IP along with unlimited bandwidth (old servers didn't even have that but then again, I never even got close to the amount allowed), unlimited disk space (old servers were only 36GB SCSI drives so having more space or unlimited is nice) and unlimited domains, with shell access as well.

The only downside is yeah, having to share a server with a bunch of others but then again, looking at the server specs, it's like having 10 or 12 of my own servers rolled into one. I had dual PIII 1GHz machines with 2GB of memory. The shared server has 8CPU's at like 2.4GHz probably Xeon processors with 16GB of memory.

But I agree with Hari, finding a good host that has SQLite and other database options instead of just MySQL or PostgreSQL is hard to find. You almost have to go VPS or have a dedicated server to get what you really need.

I won't miss having to do the administration of the servers though. Doing that as a full time job takes the fun out of it with your own servers.