Reasons to Switch
Mar. 23rd, 2007 09:02 amNo, not from PC to Mac (although that is what I'm doing at work - yay MacBook!).
I'm in the process of switching web hosts, I'm doing it slowly so I don't break anyones site, especially![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cmpriest 's. There are two reasons for this, one is site uptime.
Not bad. Not great, my new host guarantees 99.9% uptime, but not bad. In fact the reason it's lower than I'd like will become apparent when I show you the next table:
March? Oh my dear god. That's one outage a day, and we're talking long outages here too. Several hours sometimes. The same goes for the last few months - long unexplained outages, for which they claim ignorance.
FuitadNet used to be good, but since they were bought out it has been a rough ride, and I hung on because they had actually got a lot better, but these last few months have been the last straw. It's not that it effects me, it effects the people I host, and that is not good enough.
Which brings me to the second reason - support. A perfect illustration of the difference between my new host and FNet is this: when I transfered the two domains I have with FNet it took them nearly a week to get back to me, and sort it out effectively.. When I had a small setup issue with the new host - a couple of hours.. and it was fixed then. They guarantee a response in 6hrs or less.
Good riddance, because they aren't who I signed up with several years ago.
Thought for the day: There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.
I'm in the process of switching web hosts, I'm doing it slowly so I don't break anyones site, especially
cmpriest 's. There are two reasons for this, one is site uptime.Since July 28th, 2004 (when I started collecting stats on this), there have been 143 outages, most of them minor, and the total uptime has averaged 98.598%
Not bad. Not great, my new host guarantees 99.9% uptime, but not bad. In fact the reason it's lower than I'd like will become apparent when I show you the next table:
| Year | Outages | Uptime |
| 2007 | 34 | 92.906% |
| Year | Month | Outages | Uptime | Downtime |
| 2007 | March | 21 | 85.795% | 14.205% |
| 2007 | February | 7 | 95.238% | 4.762% |
| 2007 | January | 6 | 95.935% | 4.065% |
March? Oh my dear god. That's one outage a day, and we're talking long outages here too. Several hours sometimes. The same goes for the last few months - long unexplained outages, for which they claim ignorance.
FuitadNet used to be good, but since they were bought out it has been a rough ride, and I hung on because they had actually got a lot better, but these last few months have been the last straw. It's not that it effects me, it effects the people I host, and that is not good enough.
Which brings me to the second reason - support. A perfect illustration of the difference between my new host and FNet is this: when I transfered the two domains I have with FNet it took them nearly a week to get back to me, and sort it out effectively.. When I had a small setup issue with the new host - a couple of hours.. and it was fixed then. They guarantee a response in 6hrs or less.
Good riddance, because they aren't who I signed up with several years ago.
Thought for the day: There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.
