Making Progress (Or am I?)
October 23rd, 2007Victory! Or at least a partial one. Managed to get the lecour.net domain moved from Spry over to DreamHost, including the 160+ email addresses and the few subdomains reconfigured to point to the A Small Orange host — but only after a mishap of completely forgetting about the subdomains and having them unavailable for a few days. Yes, I have far too many hosts!
Why am I leaving Spry Networks (not that anyone’s actually asked)? First, I’m paying $70 a month for what once was a really good VPS plan, but now is overpriced: 100GB of bandwidth (which I sometimes peak at about 20MB an hour, or about 15GB per month) and 10GB of disk space. Heck, I noticed yesterday that my mail logs for the last 30 days took up about 3GB of disk space. Not the mail itself. Just the logs. And that doesn’t include all the other stuff I on there. So 10GB of storage just doesn’t cut it. Not only that but the server response time has been abysmal whether retrieving email, FTPing files up or down, or just accessing the websites. Timeouts left and right.
DreamHost, on the other hand, costs me $10 a month for 5TB of bandwidth and 500GB of storage. Not bad. It’s not VPS, but I’m not really sure I ever really needed the overhead and headache that comes with one. Server seems quite responsive, too, although I still haven’t finished loading it up yet. We’ll see.
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Hmmm. Less than 48 hours after I sign up and DreamHost (and everything it hosts) has been virtually down for the past 70 minutes. The severity listed on their status website is Low. What the fûçk would qualify as High?! Guessing I should bail, get a refund, and find another host. Sadly, if I was starting out, I’d sign up with A Small Orange since they’re awesome, but I didn’t want more than half my eggs in one basket. Decisions…
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:05 pm
OK, now it’s been 90 minutes and they’ve upgraded the severity of this issue to Medium. w00t! But, hey, at least my websites, control panel, and email servers are up! Not sure “saving money” and “reliable hosting” are concepts that go hand in hand, A Small Orange being an exception (so far).
October 24th, 2007 at 9:17 am
“…for 5TB of bandwidth and 500GB of bandwidth…”
Should one of those be “storage”?
October 24th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Picky, picky. (fixed)