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Many people have mentioned that my site has been laggy and slow to load – and not just Auntie Ladybug, who has dialup. heh. Then, this morning, apparently my server went down for several hours as well. Now, I’ve been with these guys for goin on 4? years now, and it kills me to have to upgrade, but looks like I’m just gonna have to bite the bullet and do it. I’m tired of my email email spam filter not working (thus necessitating the switch to gmail) and it going down at least once a day, and the laggy slow pain in the ass bits.
So I’m looking for a new server. Dreamhost has a fanTAStic looking deal right now, but it’s got that ‘too good to be true’ feeling to it. So! Who do you host with? Do ya like it? Why? Why not? Who’ve you heard good things about? who’ve you heard bad things about? I’m looking to switch over by october at the absolute latest (it’s a money thing. heh.). So – opinions? Common – ya know ya got em! *g*
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I’ve been with Dreamhost for a LONG time. Like five years probably. Love them! They do go down sometimes but they have a status blog where you can see why and they send updates via email to let you know what’s up. Drives me batshit insane that ppl gripe about them so much. Most recently they went down due to a power outage in their building and a generator malfunction. Being a sys admin myself, I can appreciate that sometimes shit just happens and I think its cool that they take the time to explain things. Also, the few times I’ve needed their tech help, it’s gone very smoothly.
BTW, I think my girl sent your girl some email recently. Don’t know if she’s checked it or not but Em will be here again this weekend if she wants to reply to her.
I always have problems loading the site, so I mostly read via rss.
I have been with eHost for something like six years now and have NEVER EVER had any downtime. When they are going to work on a server upgrade or something they send me an email two weeks beforehand. I wanna say I have received like three of those emails in six years. eHost is also excellent with PHP and my wordpress took seconds to install there. They are not hugely expensive, either. But they don’t offer those unbelievably cheap hosting deals just so that they can overload their servers AND their bank accounts. My sites load fast, and their tech support is multi-layered and available 24/7.
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