ask them to move you to a less busy machine?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Daniel Carrera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel.carrera@theingots.org">daniel.carrera@theingots.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Greg Knaddison wrote:<br>
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A cheap VPS is $20/month and will likely solve the problem.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<div class="im"><br>
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Debugging a slow site on shared hosting is an exercise in futility.<br>
Regardless of the value you place on your own time, it doesn't take<br>
much time troubleshooting before a low cost shared hosting plan<br>
becomes a false savings.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br><font color="#888888">
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Daniel.</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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