Archive for May, 2008

Website up-time checking pingdom is the solution

I’m an affiliate and a client of Pingdom, I get a commission for selling there checking uptime package but I’m also a client.
I use it to detect when my website is down.
I first used Pingdom trial, 20 days, after seeing that is really a high quality service I bought 1 year service getting 70% discount [...]

Moved from DownTownHost to webfactor.ro

I moved yesterday from DownTownHost to webfactor.ro.
The problem with DownTownHost was a over 160 minutes http downtime that the technical refused to confirm.
I use pingdom to check for web hosting quality.
Checking at 1 minute interval for http, mail, ping and DNS problems.
After that downtime and a response time over 48 hours I decided to move [...]

DownTownHost my new webhost

Yesterday I bought 1 month hosting from DownTownHost.
There servers are located in USA.
In the present I don’t have high traffic but when I will have I want a plan big like this and they don’t offer custom plans so my choice was the smaller plan bronze, with 5 GB disk space, 100 GB bandwidth, unlimited Mysql, [...]

VPS a real need for high traffic websites

If you have many websites or a small number of websites but with a big traffic you need a VPS.
Shared accounts how the names says are shared, even if they told you that you have 5000GB space and 80000GB bandwidth, you will most probably get an account termination or a warning when you will use [...]