by Jonny | Apr 14, 2013 | Updates
I haven’t done a review of a hosting company in a while now and I remember when I used to use dedicated servers and VPSs that I used to do periodical reviews of them to ensure that they’d keep their quality.
Ever since becoming a shared hosted user, I’ve never really done a review for shared hosts as I didn’t consider them that important. That is, of course, far from the truth. However, I’ve got to give my current host credit as they have recently, or especially this year have been very good.
Last year, however, I had a few bad experiences and I very nearly switched web hosts.
Those bad experiences included my entire web directory being exposed for a brief period on an aggregate directory.
I was, however, compensated for that and I actually haven’t had to pay any hosting bills, for the past 5 months, as they credited my account with $50; my web hosting monthly bill is only $3.95. – I still have 3 months of free web hosting left.
While the host has not been perfect, they haven’t done anything else to make me switch to another web host. However, I still am thinking very hard of switching hosts due to other reasons.
In 2012, however, I faced serious problems with things being slow and I asked if I could be moved to another server. They did this and I saw improvements. But, as I’m writing this now, I’m getting really bad loading times on my websites. It has made me want to move hosts and I’m still thinking about moving.
I’d like to add that for the first 3-4 months or the majority of 2013, things have been running smoothly. I haven’t really had any problems. However, I can’t always monitor my site and at times I do get rather annoyed with how slowly my sites are loading. Whether it’s a user on the same server using a lot of CPU or their servers not being up scratch; well, I don’t know.
While their servers speeds have been an issue, their support is superb. I’ve been with Stable Host since December 2nd, 2011 and I whenever I’ve needed to contact them, I haven’t been left stranded and they do reply. After checking my support tickets, they seem to respond within the hour, which is pretty decent for a shared host. I remember the last host that I left in-place for Stable Host responded within 1-3 hours.
I’m quite content and happy with their response times; however, this year, I haven’t really had to contact them all too much as their service, for the most part, has been going well. Aside from periodical slowness, I can’t complain too much. But that is also a deal-breaker for me. If my sites are running slow then people won’t like browsing my sites and that simply is not good. Are their servers being overused? Who knows. Are they pro-actively taking care of it? I don’t know.
While I think this host is ‘okay’, I definitely think they need to make improvements. I would rate this host 3 out of 5.
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by Jonny | Sep 3, 2010 | Updates
Here’s the deal: I’m currently working a shitty 8 hour job at minimum wage, and all the money that I earn is helping to pay the family mortgage, food, bills and everything that can be associated with living.
It’s not that I don’t mind paying that and helping out my family. It’s just that I dream of bigger things and bigger ideas. I mean, at the age of just 17 I built own free web hosting company. I would have continued the service today had I been able devote all my time, money and energy into that, but then life just happens. It rips away at the very foundations that you try to instil in yourself. On the flip side I suppose it also makes you want to work harder, and become what you’ve always wanted to be: an entrepreneur. A person who builds things I suppose.
I guess I’ll have to wait till I’m a little older to have that financial freedom. I guess what has made me write this is the fact that a person who is as involved in the same web hosting industry as I recently ranted on about how he built his success on a web forum I frequent.
It also seemed as if his family supported if not pushed him into a certain area, which allowed him to become successful. I sometimes wish that was me, but then who doesn’t? It’s just that I thought I had that potential, and I almost did the exact same thing as that successful guy – minus being able to have the full financial power to take anything further.
Either way, time is passing and it’s as if the longer I wait, the more the opportunity is slipping away. I suppose that opportunities will always arise and I do wonder where I’ll be in a couple years’ time.
by Jonny | Aug 31, 2010 | Updates
Usually transferrals of my websites are easy and don’t involve many problems. However my main website is currently down and I’ve asked my host for assistants in fixing the issue as I’ve got a headache over it all. I’m still with the same host, I just wanted to be transferred to a faster server and now we are rocking on an 8 core server which I have seen notably faster response times on the website and in cPanel/WHM. The problem is that my main site is down (Webmasterspace) and I believe it is to do with DNS configuration. Though I’ve noticed that WHM is using some random IP address that I wasn’t assigned by my host or at least I wasn’t informed about. Thus when I changed my registered IP address for my nameservers, my websites DNS is not recognizing the change in WHM. – This is my theory, so whether I’m correct or not, I don’t know.
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by vlexo | Aug 29, 2008 | Updates
I’ve been looking at backup storage methods which I could use for my sites and specifically accounts which can be added to store backups via NAS to store full cPanel Backups and to be at the ready if files I’ve deleted or if someone has done something horrific to their free hosted account on Vlexo.com. At current I’ve been doing things like this via Rsync, which works well however NAS is something which my service provider offers which I would rather have and turns out it might be slightly cheaper; only slightly to what I’m currently paying.
However I’ve found a much cheaper solution, this solution is only by adding a secondary hard drive to the initial server and select any cPanel account to which end I’d want to backup accounts to. This is much cheaper, as I can purchase a 250GB hard drive disk for $20 per month and store all selected cPanel accounts to which end will be worth it. At current I’m paying for remote storage at a price of just $14 per month for 50 gigabytes of space and unmetered traffic. However this is simply not worth it as a secondry drive is as as reliable and is much cheaper as I can store 250GB of storage for just $20 per month, which is worth every cent.
With the free hosting I provide, I will be using this service as an addon which people can purchase, so for example, people will be able to pay a subscription per month to add their cPanel account to the list of accounts which get backed up. This is a unique service to which end not many if any provide such service of backing up accounts. These backups can of course be restored and they will be made on a nightly basis and perhaps a weekly one to save any ‘older’ backups. Costs would only go so far as $0.50 to $1 depending on how many gigabytes you would be using up and if anything WiredTree offers a variety of other larger diskpace drives:
Not to bad and a little revenue could be made if this is a success. I’ll aslo be saying that everyone who uses this service gets premium support, such as private support via our forums and ticketing support which will come along in the future – which will be a gateway to admins such as myself, Eli and the rest of the team.