Archive for February, 2007

Not suitable for shared hosting - Taken down by success

Some find out the hard way that their site is no longer suitable for shared hosting. Same thing happened to them. They definitely need a dedicated server now. It’s a clear example of “Taken down by success”.

~1000 unique visitors per day might not be much but when you get lots of hits …oh brother, so […]

Benchmarking futurehosting Virtual Private Server (VPS)

A few days ago there was an important soccer game, atleast for Romanians. The game wasn’t featured on TV, no television network had the right to broadcast it, legal issues, bla bla bla.
The game was on live radio though but the sites broadcasting the sound stream had a hard time copping with the high demand […]

A dedicated, delicate move

I recently dumped my dedicated server I had with Layeredtech. One of the reason was that we weren’t using it all that much and it was just eating our money, plus the recent slowdowns they been through. Still had 42 cpanel accounts there that needed to be moved. As I already had […]

Some stuff about Hostican

For the last few days I have been digging up info on hostican. I know they are an older company that rebranded their name, they used to be known as IndexCore. Hostican, the name they “wear” now is about 8 months old and they are a Cpanel host. (Yes, I got some inside info).
What is […]

Namecheap Discout coupon

Namecheap Discount Coupon valid for February 2007: Feblove
It is valid for new registrations, makes them 7.95.
Enjoy

Do you really need that much space and bandwidth?

I often ask people if they really need all that space and bandwidth when they ask about a big overselling hosts. I’m talking about xxxxGB traffic and xxxGB space in the shared environment. People buy these ridiculous plans for usually under $10 / month and then they find themselves booted of. People don’t know the […]

Futurehosting VPS

This is my second week with futurehosting and I must say I’m impressed. Had no issues and no downtime. I’m on  an unmanaged VPS, 128 MB ram, 5GB space and 100GB transfer for $10 / month.
When I signed up my order was tagged as fraud (this is kind of usual for me, ISP and country […]