Goodbye A Small Orange – I will Miss You
Update (03/16/2009): I’ve moved back to A Small Orange shared hosting indefinitely as I was unsatisfied with the VPS experience.
I’ve had my host with A Small Orange for about a year now.
My skepticism with hosts had me paying month-to-month, especially since I had problems with the uber-popular Media Temple.
As of this writing, my current host is VPSLink.
I will admit it was a pain to figure out how to configure a Virtual Private Server. However, once the initial learning curve was conquered, I was able to get this site ported over with very minimal headaches.
Hopefully having relatively full control over the server will result in a significant improvement in downtime. In fact, it was user feedback that resulted in me moving to A Small Orange from Media Temple.
The reason I chose a VPS (Virtual Private Server) was because I plan on starting a small business, and I needed a more powerful hosting solution. A Small Orange VPS was a little too expensive (and less powerful) than what I was hoping for, so I sought out other solutions.
If you have any problems with the current host, please do not hesitate to e-mail me with any issues.
As a sidenote, I will not hesitate to recommend A Small Orange as an excellent shared hosting avenue. Their support was outstanding, and their downtime was reasonable (much better than Media Temple, go figure).
Time will tell if I’ve made an intelligent decision.
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Actually i m searching good hosting company for my new website. Now i will contact VPSlink for hosting. Thanks.
I found an excellent one – webnetghosting.net. We went though four, all with band width issues and all with empty promises. Our web site, http://www.kegkits.com, gets around 900 visitors / day and we have quite a few graphics scattered across all of the pages.
I’m currently running my sites with rapidvps. Definitely good. I was using split-shared of crucialwebhost before but after they changed the package and implemented a lot of restrictions, I moved out. Before crucial, I was choosing between crucial and media temple but after the experience of my friend with mt, I chose crucial. However, their price is already unreasonable.
When I become more confident, I’ll try a the VPS at rapidvps.com
As an update, I’ve moved back to “A Small Orange” shared web hosting.
I noticed a significant traffic dip after moving to the VPS for three months (not saying VPS’s are bad in general). Since moving back a few days ago, traffic has already gone up by a good percentage.
I’m making no conclusions at this point, but we’ll see in a few months.
Are you running Google Analytics? If not, you need to. Their crawl stats page measures the time it takes their own robots to download your pages and it’s a pretty representative sample of what your users are seeing.
Also, my hosting company is http://webnethosting.net/. I bounced through 4 ‘big name’ hosting companies before finding these guys. Their service is great – I just looked and Google reports an average 395 ms download time with short peaks & valleys.
@Tom,
I’m running Mint on this site, but I have Google Analytics on other sites. I’ve stayed away from Google Analytics since I’ve been using Mint for so long, but in the case of server-response time, it’s very smart to run an outside service.
I’ll try out Google Analytics, but since I’d like to make a server-to-server comparison using Mint, I’ll refrain from changing too much for a few more weeks.
Thanks for the hosting suggestion.
I’ve found Hostgator to be very good and a friend uses Site 5 and likes them very much. Not sure of the differences on cost as that can make a difference but I’ve never had any problems so I’m happy with the service.
Between what you are offering me and what i can choose if i could i would certanly go with one offer from linuxhostinghub.com And their shared or virtual private servers.