Is it me or my host?

[Lemmy]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Looks like someone did a quick host change.

Yup! I have accounts with two different hosts and it's a balancing act to try and spread my sites between them to maximize my bandwith. More so when one occasionally sucks bigtime and support at the other is sketchy at best.

Dedicated becomes more and more tempting, but then there's a whole shitload of new stuff to learn, not to mention the move (scary, with databases, scripts and all that stuff I don't understand).

To all you newbies out there (or at least those of you who are even more newbies than I am): When they say there's a steep learning curve to this business it's only a partial truth; it's actually a never ending learning curve!

[Useless]

Originally Posted by Lemmy

Dedicated becomes more and more tempting, but then there's a whole shitload of new stuff to learn, not to mention the move (scary, with databases, scripts and all that stuff I don't understand).

Managed dedicated isn't scary. Unmanaged is. I'm pretty sure that my dedicated box would still be alive today if I would have paid for an outside server management company. If you are on a managed box, it's just like having a pain free virtual account, except you don't have to worry about other webmasters on your server pushing scripts that will demand all of the server's resources. Most hosts really oversell their virtual accounts. I think it's that overselling that creates much of the problmes for virtual users.

[Danny]

Originally Posted by Lemmy

Dedicated becomes more and more tempting, but then there's a whole shitload of new stuff to learn, not to mention the move (scary, with databases, scripts and all that stuff I don't understand).

Just upgrade to dedeicated at your presnet host and there should be no problems with DB's and scripts at all.