johnmartin said:
Wot, no redundant failover!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
... one of the drawbacks of a relatively new webhosting company I'm afraid John. They currently have a rack of 9 servers, and are growing rapidly, soon to be offering a dedicated solution. I have discussed the issue of load balancing with them and it is on their radar - which is good.
I made the choice to support a new webhost and totally accept that there will inevitably be a higher risk of downtime involved. I do however, get very good customer service though which is something I didn't get with my previous (
and very large) webhost. I have access to them around the clock, and the tech support guys are superb. Can you imagine calling a webhost, asking for them to do a backup, and them saying... "sorry, we can't do that!!" well that's what I got from my last webhost. The new guys re-built tMP when I moved webhost within 20 minutes for me. They did everything and are still extremely helpful in all support requests I pass their way.
Also, the bandwidth and MySQL db limits match the ever growing requirements of tMP, and it means (
barring continuing failure or poor performance from the new webhost) that as we grow, I will be able to upgrade and increase my account limits without having to move server or webhost. The figures for MySQL db size on my last webhost were an amazingly small 100MB :shock: when I discoverd this account llimitation tMP was literally at 98MB.... hence the hasty move...
So, from your post I read that you are into hosting yeah??? this so?