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Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Qhimm on 2002-08-11 11:32:56
As many of you are probably aware by now, the current host for this site has gotten to be rather unreliable. Unexplained downtime of several hours at a time, often several times a week! And now this latest downtime of 24+ hours where the DNS server suddenly failed, rendering qhimm.com inaccessible.

As a result, I've begun to look into other hosts that offer the same features at roughly the same price. I've found one or two, however these are a bit more expensive than my current hosting. Hence this poll. Please participate in full honesty.

*spelling error in vote option - SaiNt* :P
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Anonymous on 2002-08-11 13:08:31
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Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Darkness on 2002-08-11 16:00:56
www.coastlandtech.com - 2gb bandwidth, 50 mb webspace (probably nt enough)

www.noxraq.com

too bad net-games shut down, or i would suggest them. (Stupid Vivendi)
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: ShinRa Inc on 2002-08-11 17:29:52
Sorry Qhimm, no $$ from this poor Russian.   -_-
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Aaron on 2002-08-11 17:32:26
If you can find a new host cheap enough (about the same or maybe slightly more than your current one) then I would say switch.  I am willing to donate a little a month if necessary, but the current problems aren't really enough to bother me.
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Kendrilian on 2002-08-11 18:27:18
Herr Qhimm, I agree with Aaron, if money is an issue I would pay.  I have never noticed the problems...

Kendrilian
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Alhexx on 2002-08-11 19:43:46
Well, I think it's not that tragic that the server's unavailable sometimes. And a server change doesn't mean automatically improvement. Probably even payable hosts are sometimes unavailable. I don't care 'bout the problems - I think we can live w/o that board for 24 hours ... ;)

 - Alhexx
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Qhimm on 2002-08-11 22:19:06
Yeah, I imagine I'm the one who sees this most seriously, since I'm the one paying  :wink:  And I've gotten tired of having the site (and all things associated with it, like my mail account) unusable this often. Maybe the smartest thing to do is change hosts every year, to make sure you're with the best. Anyway, it looks like I'll be going with this other host I've found, they provide almost the same features but have a better reputation at it.

Here's more on the new deal, anyway:
- Web space: 50% more (meaning I can disable auto-pruning of Unrelated)
- Bandwidth limit: unchanged at 10GB / month (the site & forums so far haven't climbed above 2GB / month)
- No dedicated IP, so the site will be completely dependent on the domain name for accessing  :(
- Speed: unknown, but should be at least as good as current
- Uptime: definite improvement over current

Oh, and I haven't decided on anything yet. It just looks very tempting to go this way, especially since right now I'm paying a lot of money for little service...
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Smurgen on 2002-08-11 22:36:35
Hmm.. I didn't even see it that way. That's true, your paying for service and they aren't giving you the right service!
Burn them! err...i mean kill them!
err....yea...change hosts....then kill them
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Alhexx on 2002-08-12 13:13:11
This sounds like it's sure we'll have an improvement ... hm ... probably better change the host? Hm, dunno. It's up to you...

 - Alhexx
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Qhimm on 2002-08-12 15:31:46
Hmm, seems the new host's speed is of a more important concern than I tought... To be precise, they're less than half as fast as the current.
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Aaron on 2002-08-12 17:40:32
Out of curiousity, how does the new host's price compare to the current?

As for speed, I've never had any problems with this board being slow, so, it might not matter that much.

Really, there are never more than like 10 people viewing the boards at once, but usually it's like three or four or less.  And I know there's the web site, and I have no idea how much traffic it gets, but I think it won't be the end of the world if the board slows down some.
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: ShinRa Inc on 2002-08-12 18:21:31
In total there is 1 user online :: 1 Registered, 0 Hidden and 0 Guests   [ Administrator ]   [ Moderator ]
Most users ever online was 14 on 2002-08-01 17:33
Registered Users: ShinRa Inc

90% of the time I'm here, it's less than 4 total online.  And also, I've never had a problem with speed....Unless you count all the times the Server goes down as I'm writing a post....and then I hit send, and it gets lost.... ;-;
Title: ^^
Post by: Nori on 2002-08-12 18:39:47
Hey guys, SUP SUP~
I really don't know~ I still like this site a lot... but it's true that site was down many times :C (Just for short-time)...

Anyways, I'm so cheap that I use MSN, and my school (DOMAIN for my webpages) ^___^
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Kendrilian on 2002-08-13 01:10:15
Herr Qhimm, I never notice being slow because... well... um... on THIS modem there is NO SUCH THING as a slow site or a fast site.  They are ALL slow!  Though there are sites that don't respond.

Kendrilian
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: The SaiNt on 2002-08-13 05:59:49
One does also have to take into account the d/l's on Qhimm's site.
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2002-08-13 06:48:18
Uhmm... Saint?

Quote from: Qhimm
(the site & forums so far haven't climbed above 2GB / month)


Looks like he IS taking it into consideration...

Sephiroth 3D

"Macintoshs are to Computers as Spam is to Food." - Greg Higgins

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Title: Poor uptime
Post by: atzn on 2002-08-13 08:33:04
Nah, 24 hours is OK to me. I've realised this problem as well, but I don't really care much.
Speed? No problem; infact I'm downloading your site faster than any other websites.

Any other problems? Umm no.... not really. I think this host is ok at the moment.... but again Qhimm, you own this site, it's your choice which host you want to choose. Us users can only give opinions.......  :wicked:

Edit  - er yeah, Jari made a good point on the user demanding better reliability. I mean, you are offering services/ helps to the FF community for free, and believe me you can't find any better FF programmers in any other sites.  :)
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Alhexx on 2002-08-13 14:20:40
Qhimm: When I said improvement, I wanted to point out at thwe storage. I think it would be fine to have a non-self-destructing Off-Topic-Forum ... as for me, I don't case 'bout the server speed, as far as it's not a 56K server :D

 - Alhexx
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: The SaiNt on 2002-08-13 14:24:32
Quote from: The SaiNt
One does also have to take into account the d/l's on Qhimm's site.


I wasn't refering to Qhimm's post.
I was refering to Shinra and Aaron's posts.
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Aaron on 2002-08-14 00:08:57
Yeah, I did say that I don't know how much bandwidth is used by Qhimm's actual site.  Perhaps he could enlighten us?
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: PurpleSmurf on 2002-09-01 08:17:09
well Wizard Hosting (http://www.wizardshosting.com/shared.htm) it pretty good. nice and cheap. plus the servers are reliable.[/url]
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Qhimm on 2002-09-02 10:50:51
The decision has been taken to remain with this host. Partly because it's cheaper, and partly because the problems are expected to subside as they're upgrading the entire hosting service. And if it somehow shouldn't, there's still plenty of time left before this account needs renewal.
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Alhexx on 2002-09-02 12:55:30
Qhimm: Alright, I think everyone here can live with this decision.

 - Alhexx
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Goku7 on 2002-09-02 20:59:09
Yeah, it does seem pretty stable now.  Now, if only my dad would disable the autonomus SpamTRAP function on my e-mail account so I can actually get the email notifications again......
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Jedimark on 2002-09-02 21:15:06
Does it not allow you to program "exceptions" into the Spam thing which will allow all E-mails from this board?
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Goku7 on 2002-09-03 20:35:31
According to my dad, he hasn't seen anything of that sort.  It seems to be totally autonomus (spelling?).  However, seeing as though I've got some more notifications today, my dad may have moved the wrongly-trapped stuff to my inbox, or he finally decided to disable it.

Now, why can't I do that myself?  Simple.  Dad decided that in the name of making sure I'm not getting anything nasty (and thank God I haven't gotten anything nasty so far), he changed the e-mail server password, so I don't know what he picked.  All I know is that he configured Outlook Express to use the correct passward, so I can still see my inbox, I just can't access it via a web browser, and therefore can't even set my own options.
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Jedimark on 2002-09-03 21:16:03
If you wanna find out what the password is then use this program to reveal the pasword 8)

http://www.rekenwonder.com/revealer.htm

It's a very handy little utility.
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Goku7 on 2002-09-04 00:03:37
Except when my dad notices that I've been changing options around he's not gonna be too happy with me.  I'll have to forgo using that.  Besides, I think he did finally disable the SpamTRAP feature.
Title: hehe...
Post by: TrAzI on 2002-09-12 17:52:45
About the site i barely show up so i have no opinion worth hearing hehe... but i do like how u try to keep the site up.

TrAzI
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Goku7 on 2002-09-12 19:26:21
Yeah, the e-mail notifications are back to normal now.  I think he definitely disabled the SpamTRAP.
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Psycho_Sephiroth on 2002-11-21 23:55:54
its fine just how it is, stay
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Aaron on 2002-11-22 00:08:27
You're new... you might like to know that its kind of annoying when a two-month-old thread is brought back to the top of the list by a reply... usually we let the old threads die.

Just a thought.
Title: Poor uptime
Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2002-11-22 08:19:40
Perhaps taking this off of Announcement mode would be a good first step...