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New hosting service ordered, downtime expected

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For some time now we've had intermittent server problems affecting the functionality of the site. Lots of bounced e-mails and database problems that annoy visitors and make my life more difficult. I've worked with my current hosting service since the site launched to fix the problems we're having, but so far no explanation has been offered.

Certainly, if we're going to push this site further into the public eye, its performance needs to be more reliable.

Today I set up an account with a new hosting service. During the next week or so I'll be transferring the site to the new server. Things will continue to operate as usual until I copy the signature and forum databases, at which point I'll be shutting the site down temporarily. This is to keep new signatures and forum posts from being lost during the transfer.

My hope is that this new hosting service will provide better overall performance and eliminate the database problems we've experienced several times in the past. Of course, there's no way to know until things are up and running at the new host. We'll see soon enough I suppose.
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If you don't mind me asking, who are you using as your new service?
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Kevin A
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Yes and also, no problem with the downtime, hopefully the new hosting service will be more reliable.
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Originally posted by: Bossk
If you don't mind me asking, who are you using as your new service?


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I am so glad about this Jay. The outages were beginning to annoy me. It's good to have a site administrator who's on top of things.

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That and you provide us with some damn cool ideas in the forum. Most webmasters won't also post their ideas in the forums. Kudos Jay.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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Kevin A
Webmaster/Primary Cynic
kapgar.typepad.com
kapgar.com