I switched to Lunarpages last week after the fiasco with my old hosting provider. Now, because of bandwidth and CPU usage, I’m moving to a new server at Lunarpages. I wasn’t surprised about what they said when I got a message from the sysadmins about excessive CPU usage on my shared hosting account, but I [...]

Posted October 9, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology, Warren. Tags: excessive bandwidth usage, excessive cpu usage, hosting provider, hosting providers, lunarpages, new server, plesk, switching, web hosting, web hosting provider, web hosting service. One Comment.

Sometime around 10 PM Friday the MySQL server at my hosting provider took a walk. The hosting sysop blamed it on my site and disabled the database that serves it by making the directory the MySQL files are in unreadable. MySQL didn’t seem to handle that condition well, and since MaisonBisson was still piling up [...]

Posted October 2, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology, Warren. Tags: abuse department, bad customer support, customer support, heavy traffic, hostgator sucks, hosting provider, mysql crash, queries per second, support ticket, web host, web hosting. 11 Comments.

I’ll be switching hosting providers this week. At some point I’ll have to turn off the comments here so that I can synchronize the database and prevent loss of comments as the DNS changes propagate.
Update:

The switch seems to have gone well and the DNS changes have propagated to the networks I’m using. Comments are on [...]

Posted June 20, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology, Warren. Tags: dns, dns changes, dns propagation, hosting providers, internet hosting, switch, switching, switching hosts, switching providers, web hosting. Be the first one.