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Tuesday, April 8, 2003 12:38 PM

Sorry for the down time

Many of you have written regarding the site's down time lately. Believe me, I am very ticked about this as well. On March 1, I moved to a new server with the same hosting company. Although the new server is a little more expensive, it was supposed to be faster and much more reliable. Well, it is certainly faster...WHEN IT"S WORKING!! Seems to go down just about every night about 12:30am. I have to re-start appache and it comes right back. But, if I am not available to restart it, we are down.

I am working on resolving this issue ASAP. If we unable to fix it TODAY, then I will switch hosting companies. I've been with the same host for quite a while, and I dread the move, but we just cannot accept the down-time. If anyone knows of a web host willing to offer a good deal on lots of bandwidth, please let me know.

Thanks for your patience everyone.

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Comments

Deb,

What are your bandwidth needs? If you want to answer me privately, please feel free. Also, what are you paying per month, if I may be so bold. I may have an answer for you. I have been involved with web hosting for several years, so I may have some answers for you!

Susan

Posted by: Susan W at April 8, 2003 7:13 PM

Thanks Susan. I do have a few leads so far. I need at least 25GB per month in data transfer and unlimited file storage (or at least 1GB). I also require MySQL, Perl...the works. Shell access is nice to have, but not totally necessary.

Thanks to all who have ideas.

As an update. My current host has installed a CRON-job to automatically restart apache every night. Let's see if that does the trick. Even if it does, I may still switch as I think I am paying waaay too much. I've noticed some deals as low as $30 per month for what I need. We shall see.

Posted by: McDeb at April 8, 2003 7:34 PM

Deb,

I am glad you got things worked out. I did send you an e-mail, but it bounced. I must have sent it when you were moving.

Good luck with the new server!

Posted by: Susan W at April 12, 2003 12:41 PM