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Blah. I procrastinated and procrastinated moving the site (partly because I actually have a few sites on the same host, and the more sites you have, the more hassle it is to move). I decided against pair.com, because although they are very reliable, they don't offer much by way of "extras" with their accounts, and getting everything set back up the way it is now would have been a huge added expense.
So, I put it off and put it off, and Dreamhost sent me an invoice for my next two years' hosting, and I put it off some more, and then I noticed a bunch of undelivered email notices turning up in my fckingcnts.com inbox. Upon further investigation, I found that the site's "notify of new comments on this post" service was overloading their "bulk mail" limits (100 emails per hour). Naturally, I'm pleased as punch that so many people actually give a damn about the comments around here … so I emailed Dreamhost to see if I could get an exception to the rule.
No dice.
Apparently, because it's not double-opt-in to sign up for our comment notification plugin, and there isn't a dated list of exactly who and when everyone signed up, I am now an email spammer, and I can either disable comment notifications altogether, or move on.
So, it's clearly time to move on.
Be warned, over the next couple days, I will indeed be moving everything, including this site, to MediaTemple grid-hosting. Why? They're cheaper than pair.com with better account features, and their grid-server set-up sounds like it will offer way better reliability and unexpected traffic handling than Dreamhost. All in all, sounded good to me.
If comments disappear during the move, or I don't respond to comments as quick as usual, or something gets weird for a couple of days, no worries, everything will be resolved in as timely a manner as I can reasonably manage.
See you on the other side!
Well, if I were computer literate, I would say something intellegent like, "ahhh this is a better web host," or something else relating to the internet. But I'm not. So I shall say this, don't take too long moving, and best of luck? Haha! Yeah I'm lame, I know. :P
23rd April 2008 at 3:38 pm | permalink |I had fairly good luck with godaddy . All you have to do is live through them berating you to take their upsell options.
23rd April 2008 at 9:12 pm | permalink |@aimee: hehe … no worries. I'll try not to take too long, but in my experience something always goes wrong. ;-) Hopefully it will be with one of the other sites though. hehe
@autodidact: I use them for domain registration, but I'm not sure if they'd be any good for high-traffic sites.
23rd April 2008 at 9:24 pm | permalink |Bravo! Whatever needs to be done, I have never had a paid web host but from what I hear a good one is hard to find. My mother always said a good man is hard to find and a hard man is good to find, it may work the same with web hosts.
Anyway best of luck on your move, I agree with aimee don't be too long! There are far too many unfunny sites about the internet, I wouldn't want to one that IS actually funny to disappear for too long.
Helen [I cannot and will not change this name, although I was toying with changing my surname to "Damnation" for a while!]
24th April 2008 at 4:51 am | permalink |who am we all to say? i think you're far beyond us regular assholes, i just think (and hope) you know what the hell you're doin…)
24th April 2008 at 3:53 pm | permalink |just don't sell you're ass before you know what it's worth. i think you've got som asskikking good site going on, don't go selling short!
24th April 2008 at 4:00 pm | permalink |@helen: I think "Damnation" would be a great last name! hahaha
@bill: Well, there's a fine balancing act between "selling yourself short" and finding hosting you can afford for a site that isn't making any money. ;-)
24th April 2008 at 4:02 pm | permalink |If you start makin' big money, can you then throw some of it this direction? I sell my soul, my dogs soul, my cats soul for some hard cash, he he..If i find a worm in the garden i'll sell it's soul too
25th April 2008 at 1:25 am | permalink |