About two weeks ago it happened, icantinternet.org made the switch.
No, nothing weird happened, we didn’t switch from an internet blog to a blog about knitting, nor did we change our political views (should we have any).
No, we switched hosts.
Since the beginning of icantinternet.org, the blog was hosted with a lilttle webhosting company in the neighborhood. They were rather cheap, friendly, always ready to help, 99,9% online, fast, and they gave an enormous amount of webspace: 500Mb!!!
But in the meantime, years later, they still charge the same prices, for the same speed and the same amount of webspace. Their helpdesk went bad, their service did to, and their uptime went waaaaaaay down. You may have noticed these things happening in the last 6 months.
So, we went webhost shopping… After days of Googling, reading, and comparing, it appeared that Hostgator came out of the comparison as one of the best and most reliable webhosts.
So, we took out the shovle, started digging in code, files and databases, and made the switch.
Switching webhosts is never an easy thing, especially if you have 40+ domains, with 20+ websites. You are bound to run into some issues of some kind. However, the helpdesk of Hostgator is available via phone, but also via chat. I’ve used the chat version of the helpdesk a few times in the meantime, always during the nighttime for the US, and was always helped in a polite, fast and correct manner. That’s the way we like it!
Pricewise their packages may not be the cheapest, but they certainly aren’t the most expensive. To me it seems as good value for money, at least it sure is for what I need.
And uptime and speed, well, my sites load many times faster then before, and haven’t been offline for a single second that i know of (and yes, I’m monitoring), compared to 10 minutes downtime a day on average with my previous host.
All in all, I’m very pleased with my new webhost Hostgator.
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Hello Bjorn I’m happy your move went good. i know it can be hard at terms but it looks like you are good to go.
I’ve had some big databases in the past to move and let me tell you it’s no so fun.
Congrats on the new host and faster speeds.
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Thanks Brian, indeed, it isn’t always easy to move domains, especially if they have large databases behind them. This blog was quite ok, but my photography website + blog are about 7Gb in size, which made it quite an operation to move it
Anyway, it all worked out find in the end…
I’m glad got such good service from Hostgator. It’s nice of you to give them a recommendation too. On the forums the question of reliable hosts comes up all the time and now I can refer back to this post as an example.
Thanks!
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Thanks for your comment Ileane! Yeah, I’m very very happy with my move to Hostgator, still am, so feel free to refer here anytime!
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