Moved To A New Host

For the last 4 or 5 years, all of my websites have been hosted on a dedicated server. My first host had a lot of downtime but for the last two years my server has been managed by WiredTree. In all my years of working online, I have never worked with a more reliable and professional hosting company.

However, I recently decided to downgrade from a dedicated server. When I purchased my server two years ago I had several more websites than I have now. One of them was a large forum with around 25,000 members and required a lot of ram, cpu time and web space. I sold this website last year though I kept my server because it was so quick.

Looking back, this was probably a bad decision. I was using less than 10gb of a 250gb hard drive, clearly I was paying more than I needed to.

Therefore I contacted several hosting companies with a list of questions about their managed virtual servers, particularly about performance as this was one of the reasons I kept my server so long. I also spoke to WiredTree about this to see if they had a suitable solution for me.

For me, the way a hosting company replies to an email with a list of questions gives some indication to the level of support you can expect from the company. The hosting company which did repy quickly and with a long detailed reply was ServInt. David James from ServInt explained exactly what package he thought I needed and why. He also added that I could downgrade and upgrade to a different package whenever I wanted, though he said that it would be best to see how much ram and cpu time my websites use up first.

So I decided to go with their Signature VPS package. This package comes with 45gb of hard drive space, 1.5TB of bandwidth and guaranteed ram of 1.5gb. Though the package also allows up to 3gb of burst ram to cope with high traffic spikes, which suits my current situation perfectly as my previous server had 2gb of ram.

The transfer of all my websites took less than an hour. First impressions of ServInt are very good with all my questions being answered within a few minutes. I am going to review how much ram and cpu time my websites use up over the next few weeks and may downgrade or upgrade accordingly.

I would like to thank WiredTree for the fantastic level of support I have received over the last two years. I think this is the first time I have ever left a hosting company on positive terms, previously I have always left because support or performance was before par. This was certainly not the case with WiredTree.

In the future I may have to upgrade again if traffic increases in my websites or I develop another high traffic site. In the mean time, I am very happy to have reduced my monthly hosting bill from $269 a month to $89. I’m also looking forward to working with ServInt.

As I mentioned above, I will be reviewing the performance of this hosting package over the next few weeks. If you notice BloggingTips being any slower please let me know as it might suggest that I need to upgrade to the next VPS package.

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on August 27th, 2009 and filed under Site News
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