[support] CPU usage

[Steve Power]

ask them to move you to a less busy machine?

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Daniel Carrera <
daniel.carrera at theingots.org> wrote:

> Greg Knaddison wrote:
>
>> A cheap VPS is $20/month and will likely solve the problem.
>>
>
> I am not a very good sysadmin and I hate sys admin work. I cry at the
> thought of having to configure Mailman (I have no idea how) or spam filters,
> or Apache, PHP and MySQL, or handle backup and recovery.
>
> I speak from experience. I have been the sys admin of a non-critical Drupal
> site and I know I would not like to do the same for a mission critical site.
>
> I chose this host as a way to get a balance between getting my fair share
> of resources while having someone else do the day-to-day admin work that I
> have neither interest nor aptitude for.
>
>
>  Debugging a slow site on shared hosting is an exercise in futility.
>> Regardless of the value you place on your own time, it doesn't take
>> much time troubleshooting before a low cost shared hosting plan
>> becomes a false savings.
>>
>
> I did not choose the present shared host based on savings. I chose them
> because they have the best reputation for excellent support and uptime that
> is second to none. So far they have lived up to their reputation. My support
> requests receive an intelligent and useful response in less than 2 or 3
> minutes.
>
> My top priority is reliability. I don't have enough confidence in my admin
> skills to believe that I can achieve better reliability myself than I can
> with United Hosting.
>
> Daniel.
>
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