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[Jason Poulter]

Digitalocean.com if want to manage your own box

On February 18, 2014 3:32:44 AM MST, Nathan England <plug-discuss at nmecs.com> wrote:
>
>Howdy,
>
>I have been with DreamHost for many years and have enjoyed their
>awesome 
>control panel (I hate cpanel), their fast response to issues, and the 
>help they've given me over the years with dumb questions. I have
>several 
>dozen sites hosted with them on a shared hosting plan. None of them are
>
>money making sites, nonetheless, it is embaressing when someone tries
>to 
>get to a site and it is dog slow.
>
>It seems now every week I have to submit a support ticket for them to 
>"restart my apache service" so my sites respond quickly again. Though, 
>this only lasts a short time and they are slow again.
>
>I guess it is time that I look elsewhere for hosting support. I don't 
>want to spend the money on a VPS because my basic needs are met with a 
>shared account, and no doubt I get better resources than a 300MB ram
>VPS 
>would provide, unless the shared server is over-loaded, and VPS's
>larger 
>than 300MB of ram are more than I am willing to spend.
>
>I despise GoDaddy because of their advertising practices (I actually 
>respect women and don't care to treat them all like a piece of meat or 
>porn stars).  Several friends have recently dumped HostGator because 
>their shared accounts are too slow.
>
>Any recommendations?
>
>P.S. A commercial account with my ISP and my server would be ideal for 
>all of my needs, but being up here in the sticks my ISP wants an arm
>and 
>a leg to provide more than 3MB/768K speeds, which are not realistic.
>
>Thanks!
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