Shared Hosting

I spent a good part of my weekend moving websites to another web hosting company. As with using cheap shared hosting you get what you pay for. The speed was okay but more often that I’d like the server went offline for one reason or another. Perhaps, I was on a bad, malfunctioning server; I don’t know. For the forth or fifth time, the server took a nosedive. This time around the hard-drives went into “read-only” mode for several hours on Saturday morning forcing all websites on that server offline.

Since I sit near other web developers (exchange software engineers or internet application developers as seen fit) at work, it is easy to get a recommendation for alternative web hosting companies. The host that I migrated everything to uses a grid-server. People share resources, but instead of using one server this uses an array of servers. If one server goes down, it somehow uses another server that is online.

This costs about twice as much to use as my previous host, but this should be an improvement. If I don’t complain assume it is.