I hosted at 2 companies and weirdly, these 2 companies suddenly gave me headache.
1. The X hosting. First, hosting down for 15 minutes. No big deal for me. But as a result of this failure, my mysql corrupted and I need to restore back and as them to restore back some of the databases coz I don't backup them. Then my tar.gz backups also lost, but they managed to restore back. Thumbs up. I thank the support for X company coz they really reply your message in less than 5 minutes.
2. The Y hosting. Since my package in X hosting don't have cronjob, I use Y's cronjob to 'cronjob' X hosting. But yesterday, I noticed that Y hosting don't do the cronjob that they usually do. So I check it out and notice the crontab is no longer there. Talked to the owner he said, "Since many account abuse our cronjob, we disable cronjob"... which really gave me a headache. But I talked to him that I really need cronjob (besides it is stated in my package that I will get cronjob) and at the end I get my cronjob back. Y hosting is good, but I don't really like the approach. I mean why not only disable those who abuse it, not all? Then why not send emails notifying us that he will disable the cronjob?
These 2 events gave me a sign that I really need a decent and responsible webhosting company because it is clearly that the 2 webhostings can't guarantee my site will be able to run smoothly without me monitoring it. I'm eyeing 'steadfast'. My package now is 3GB + 30 bandwidth. Steadfast only offer 500mb + 30GB bandwith but cost me 50% $$$ more. Really expensive but I think worth it coz my website actually less than 10mb. Really expensive but I think worth it coz I just want my website to up and running. Besides, the server is located at US. 90% of my visitors are US people.
So yesterday, without any hesitation, I applied CIMB e. Mastercard debit card so that I 'shop' the server later (maybe at the end of this year coz my package will be dead at that time).
For X and Y webservers. I don't mean they are not good (worth with the price), but I just want my website to run without any failure so that my visitors (US visitors particularly) can surf smoothly.
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