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Site moved to Siteground
Posted by
wildweaselmi
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08 April 2011
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This week (since Monday) I have been moving from hostmonster to siteground because hostmonster went down on me twice this past weekend during festival when we needed our website up. It took over 3 hours each day before the site came back up. This is totally not acceptable so I looked for alternatives and Siteground has been rated #1 for support and reliability but at a cost.
The typical shared hosting means you have 1000 websites sharing the same server you are on. Which also means the same database server. So if any of those sites get attacked so does your site. So if someone brings the server down then you are out of business. So someone could have a weak mySQL password or FTP password and someone cracks it and there goes the server. Or maybe they are hosting illegal crap because its unlimited bandwidth and typically is unlimited for most of these shared hosting packages. That's why its as low as 3.95/month up to 5.95 because you are sharing a server with a lot of other websites.
Now why did we go to Siteground (which just came up yesterday so very long transition process)? Mainly because they allowed us to pay extra for Premium Support which means if I have issues with our site I believe we will be taken care of right away. That's the first thing we are trying. If that doesn't work, siteground offers a semi-dedicated service which may not work for us because once you go to a semi-dedicated service your bandwidth is limited. For a medium package the bandwidth limitation is 1.5GB and we use 2GB or a little more. If we went with the very very expensive high end package for semi-dedicated then they give us 2GB of bandwidth which we will still cross.
So another option is for us to get our own server not through siteground but another company where they give us a server and we install the operating system and configure it like we want. Typical charge for this is $40 and up. The good part is that we can host other clients on it if we so choose. So the only people on our server for $40/month is the clients we choose. I'm not sure about bandwidth limitations though so I'll have to look into this.
The typical shared hosting means you have 1000 websites sharing the same server you are on. Which also means the same database server. So if any of those sites get attacked so does your site. So if someone brings the server down then you are out of business. So someone could have a weak mySQL password or FTP password and someone cracks it and there goes the server. Or maybe they are hosting illegal crap because its unlimited bandwidth and typically is unlimited for most of these shared hosting packages. That's why its as low as 3.95/month up to 5.95 because you are sharing a server with a lot of other websites.
Now why did we go to Siteground (which just came up yesterday so very long transition process)? Mainly because they allowed us to pay extra for Premium Support which means if I have issues with our site I believe we will be taken care of right away. That's the first thing we are trying. If that doesn't work, siteground offers a semi-dedicated service which may not work for us because once you go to a semi-dedicated service your bandwidth is limited. For a medium package the bandwidth limitation is 1.5GB and we use 2GB or a little more. If we went with the very very expensive high end package for semi-dedicated then they give us 2GB of bandwidth which we will still cross.
So another option is for us to get our own server not through siteground but another company where they give us a server and we install the operating system and configure it like we want. Typical charge for this is $40 and up. The good part is that we can host other clients on it if we so choose. So the only people on our server for $40/month is the clients we choose. I'm not sure about bandwidth limitations though so I'll have to look into this.
