Comments on: “Alas” may be having an unexpected hiatus http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2005/03/06/alas-may-be-having-an-unexpected-hiatus/ Feminist, anti-racist, pro-fat, plus whatever else we feel like talking about. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:05:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mr. Nosuch http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2005/03/06/alas-may-be-having-an-unexpected-hiatus/#comment-28795 Mr. Nosuch Thu, 10 Mar 2005 05:19:02 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2005/03/06/alas-may-be-having-an-unexpected-hiatus/#comment-28795 I moved from Dreamhost when they were a little pricer (years ago) even though I loved them dearly. Stupid mistake. I came back over a year ago when their pricers were great (and they are having a deal now.) Our site got kicked off by a fleabag hosting company who felt we were drawing too many DoS attacks because we ran a very popular, non-English PHPBB board. Since moving to Dreamhost, life is good. We get almost a million page views a month, and spend less than $20 hosting (but I have a scad of domains. 3 or less domains is even cheaper.) Do check them out. I moved from Dreamhost when they were a little pricer (years ago) even though I loved them dearly. Stupid mistake. I came back over a year ago when their pricers were great (and they are having a deal now.) Our site got kicked off by a fleabag hosting company who felt we were drawing too many DoS attacks because we ran a very popular, non-English PHPBB board.

Since moving to Dreamhost, life is good. We get almost a million page views a month, and spend less than $20 hosting (but I have a scad of domains. 3 or less domains is even cheaper.)

Do check them out.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2005/03/06/alas-may-be-having-an-unexpected-hiatus/#comment-28744 Daniel Sun, 06 Mar 2005 16:17:29 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2005/03/06/alas-may-be-having-an-unexpected-hiatus/#comment-28744 I too have heard wonderous things from Dreamhost. If I was php based, this would be my home. I too have heard wonderous things from Dreamhost. If I was php based, this would be my home.

]]> By: Laurel http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2005/03/06/alas-may-be-having-an-unexpected-hiatus/#comment-28741 Laurel Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:38:21 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2005/03/06/alas-may-be-having-an-unexpected-hiatus/#comment-28741 here's my best guess, as a totally amateur web-person: you have a shared hosting deal, where a whole bunch of different websites are hosted on one server. it's a lot cheaper that way, but it means that if you're taking up a lot of space (not just bandwidth and memory, but computer power to run the programs that process the comments, etc) you affect the other sites on that server. so when they say they've moved your site from Europa to Quantz, they're saying they moved you from one computer where you were using a lot of space to another where you won't affect their other clients. When they say your site is no longer suitable for a shared hosting environment, they're telling you to buy space on a dedicated server - one that's just for you - which is a lot pricier. if they have telephone customer service (which they should!), you could call them and ask what would resolve the problem. it looks like php and the MySQL database you have are using most of the space: maybe you could cut down on some of the dynamically generated stuff (like the comment preview) temporarily? good luck managing your popularity. alas is a great site. here’s my best guess, as a totally amateur web-person: you have a shared hosting deal, where a whole bunch of different websites are hosted on one server. it’s a lot cheaper that way, but it means that if you’re taking up a lot of space (not just bandwidth and memory, but computer power to run the programs that process the comments, etc) you affect the other sites on that server. so when they say they’ve moved your site from Europa to Quantz, they’re saying they moved you from one computer where you were using a lot of space to another where you won’t affect their other clients. When they say your site is no longer suitable for a shared hosting environment, they’re telling you to buy space on a dedicated server - one that’s just for you - which is a lot pricier.

if they have telephone customer service (which they should!), you could call them and ask what would resolve the problem. it looks like php and the MySQL database you have are using most of the space: maybe you could cut down on some of the dynamically generated stuff (like the comment preview) temporarily?

good luck managing your popularity. alas is a great site.

]]> By: mythago http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2005/03/06/alas-may-be-having-an-unexpected-hiatus/#comment-28740 mythago Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:36:28 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2005/03/06/alas-may-be-having-an-unexpected-hiatus/#comment-28740 Dreamhost.com. Can't recommend them enough. Dreamhost.com. Can’t recommend them enough.

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