Hosting Change
Due to many problems with our current web hosting company, including a three-day block of my IP address, we’ll be moving the sites to a new hosting company at the end of the month. There will be some down-time for each site and a little growing pains as we put everything back to normal. Please be patient with us. I’ll keep this post updated with dates and times as soon as I know them.
26 May – We’ve ordered the server and are waiting for the host to build it. The plan is to get everything transferred over this week. We may have to shut down the forms for a few hours so we don’t have any changes to the database in the middle of the move. I’ll update once I know more.
29 May – We ran into a snag with the new hosting company and are going to have to choose a different one. This is going to put us back a few days.
30 May – We are moving the sites to the new host today. You may experience some downtime today or tomorrow when we change the site IP addresses until they propagate across the network. You may also not see all changes to the sites until everything is up and running on the new host.
31 May – The sites are all on the new host and back up and running.
2 Jun – We are not getting email notifications from any of the forms. If you haven’t seen your non-customized submission or I haven’t answered your amil via the Contact Form, I’ll get to everything once we get thatworking again. Also, we’re increasing the time out and upload sizes on the new server, so hopefully we won’t get any more time out errors on the forms.
4 Jun – We apologize for the delay in getting some submissions on the site. The email function is working again and we will get everything updated by tomorrow morning at the latest.
Exile
Okay first off great site! I am here more often than I should be lol, second if you are looking for a shared hosting plan (I would suggest dedicated or VPS hosting (or even cloud) – but my first suggestion would be dedicated due to the vast size of this site) – but if it’s shared you’re after try out hostgator, or webfaction they are both great hosts – and I have never had issues with either …
We are on a dedicated server right now with GoDaddy. We’re just having a lot of problems with them as a hosting company and will be switching to another company. We will continue to use dedicated servers because of how much hard drive space we require and the amount of bandwidth we use.
Have you thought of setting up a mirror site on another server, for those times your site is acting up.
Also I use LiquidWeb for all my dedicated servers they are epic.
No, I can barely afford one dedicated server as it is. We are going to set up several virtual servers on one dedicated host this time so we can more easily figure out whether it’s the server or database that is having issues. We are also going to get a more capable CPU and increase the amount of RAM.
Thanks for the suggestion on host. I’ll take a look and see it their options are within my budget.
Thanks for the suggestion on Liquid Web. When the first host we tried didn’t work out, we looked into Liquid Web. We’re trying out their Storm Dedicated servers.
Glad that I could help, I love them – they are amazing.