If you are seeing this message, then you are now seeing my website served up through my new webhost, HostMonster. I decided to switch from a VPS back to simple shared hosting. I realized that it didn’t really make sense for me to have my own server as I wasn’t really taking advantage of it. It was nice to have my site load a few milliseconds faster, but it really wasn’t worth the money I was spending.
For those of you who don’t know, I originally was using the Business Shared Hosting from 1and1, but the servers kept getting slower and slower. Shared hosting companies are known for overloading shared boxes with more users than is necessary and I assume that’s what happened. I really liked 1and1 and was sad to see that they couldn’t come up with a good solution for me. Oddly enough, almost a year later I still am paying for their service as I haven’t gotten around to tranferring my brother’s and other peoples sites off of the old 1and1 servers. On the other hand, I did move my main website off of the 1and1 servers and onto a Virtual Private Server (VPS) running on VPSLink.com hardware.
It was a learning experience with VPSLink and now that it’s all said and done, I learned a lot and enjoyed the experience – even though Laura might say otherwise. 😉 I have decided that it doesn’t make sense to pay $37 for hosting ($10 for 1and1’s hosting and $27 for VPSLink) so I am finally in the process of moving all the hosts over to the new server. I packaged up all the databases and files last night and shipped them over the wire – around 1.1 GB (gigabytes) worth of data in just over 2 minutes. The speed of the transfer was all due to one of the core requirements I have when looking at any type of hosting: Shell Access. I’ll explain the details later, but it provides a lot of flexibility.
Anyway – the big thing is my main website (boshdirect) and all the subsites are moved over to HostMonster. I’ll let you know how things go!
(Next up is updating my site to Joomla 1.5)
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