Comments on: Switching to a simpler theme (temporarily?)

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:33:21 +0000

True. It’s hard to get good genuine honest reviews on web hosting. I can tell you that my review on HostGator is completely genuine. Don’t use my affiliate link on the post. Just type hostgator.com <- this shows you how sincere my opinion is towards HostGator.

But of course, my old web hosting was the best too. So hopefully HostGator stays true to their words

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:32:04 +0000

Thanks for the great comment. You must have got great traffic to hog Hostgator’s server. So far I haven’t been able to get more than 0.2% CPU usage on their server

By: The Longest Way Home

The Longest Way Home — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:32:33 +0000

Hi,

I always like to keep my options open. The unfortunate thing is that although there are plenty of “hosting review” sites out there. The information nearly always looks spammy.

I would be great is a reputable blog / site could do a review of their experience, and then allow qualified confirmed guests to do the same!

By: Tricia

Tricia — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:20:07 +0000

I know you’ve long since solved your hosting problem, but your story is very similar to my own. Back in 2007 I had terrible problems with Lunarpages. Actually for about a year prior to them suddenly suspending my account I’d had several outages and slow downs then one day they shut down all of my sites and told me that I was using too much CPU.

If you read the post that I’ve linked to you’ll see that at the time I had just under 20 websites and blogs (more now!) and as you know, Lunarpages does nothing to help you pinpoint which of your sites is having the problem – they just shut everything down. On top of that they strong armed me into getting a VPS account and charged me for a two year contract, all without my permission! I did get a refund for that but not for the two years of shared hosting that I’d already paid for.

Like you I moved to Hostgator and I’ve been with them for about 2.5 years now with very few problems. I did have one CPU over usage problem about a month after I changed over to them, but at least they only shut down the domain with the problem and not the WHOLE account. In the end we determined one of my sites had been being attacked and it was back online within a few hours of the cpu overusage problem and I really haven’t had any big problems like that with hostgator since that time.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:36:27 +0000

Thanks for the tips on why my wordpress is slowing down. I am not happy that my hosting company BLUE HOST throttle my account for using up resources. I am going to find out what it eating all the resources.

regards,

Mark