Today on my Twitter feed, I see that they are set to return.
I sure hope Martin invests in off-site backups for both their customer information and data.
Best of luck in the return, Martin.
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there site:
ableerweb.com
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http://just-dnslookup.com/
It will give you what ip was resolved for the test in case you are using geodns, ttl, and elapsed time.
It will not offer you history because that is not the point of the tests.
There are 35+ testpoints located around the world. It is maintained by watchmouse.com
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Good luck with your search!
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Hope someone can help, thanks.
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I need a web hosting / good site builder with awesome templates or simply beautiful ones.
Budget is about $10 a month
I will be hosting about 50 Pictures now and continue with a rate of about 2 a week.
I want a really good site builder aswell.
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I have about 100 sites, all hosted with different providers from the shared hosting section of this fine forum!
The sites are SEO sites, and therefore dont use huge resources and don't attract lots of visitors etc....
They're just simple WP sites that get 50 new posts per month.
We've been hosting with lots of cheap providers and yes I know people will be thinking...... 100 hosts from the cheaper end in the WHT shared forum...... it must have been a nightmare!
The answer is yes, it's been a total nightmare. You name it, we've had a problem with it. At any one time 5-10% of the sites are down..... I willl say thay that there are quite a few very good hosts too though to be fair!
This can't go on any longer......
So I need help!
I don't want to use C class hosting. We want:
A class hosting ie hosting for 1 individual site
Reliable hosting that doesn't cost the earth - considering the sites will use very little bandwidth etc
Anyone got any good suggestions......?
We eventually plan to have 500+ sites, so we'll take all the (good) hosts with unique A class IP's we can get!
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Yesterday, 12:40 PM Originally Posted by codydh 
@novawebhosting: Thanks for your input also. You're right, and that's my fear?that it will work for now, but that some day I will have a big failure and be in a bind to get things back up.That's the problem with inexpensive self-managed VPS. You have to be congratulated for being able to get set up with a small VPS, installing the webserver and your Wordpress sites. And the low price is very attractive. My concern would be that even though these are small sites, they still have some importance to you, and WHEN (not "if") a problem occurs, the cost benefit will disappear. You will either have to hire a server management company at $100+ to fix it, or find another VPS or shared hosting account, and restore from backup (I'm not sure what your time is worth, but I suspect you want to avoid the 8 - 10 hours this would take).Having a shared hosting account makes a lot of sense. You still need backups, but at least you have a server management team "on call" watching out for hardware issues.
I would recommend a shared hosting account at some well regarded host like MDDHosting.com (I have a VPS there, and I'm recommending them for my larger hosting clients as I divest myself of the business.) Their $7.50 a month hosting plan would serve you well, and people are very happy with the service there.
(Note that hosts cannot volunteer themselves, and users are only allowed to make recommendations for services they have actually used.)
Yesterday, 04:02 PM 
Originally Posted by fshagan And the low price is very attractive. ......and WHEN (not "if") a problem occurs, the cost benefit will disappear. You will either have to hire a server management company at $100+ to fix itThis is called "false economy". It's when somebody goes for initial price only, and fails to see the long-term costs. I frequently see this with cheap batteries or cheap blank CDs/DVDs. The package contains so many duds that the higher-priced items would have been a better buy, considering long-term expenses.The same is true here. You may save a few dollars at the start, but lose a lot long-term. Sometimes the damage is catastrophic, loss of all data, when using cheap discs or cheap hosting. And I mean "cheap" both in terms of quality and price -- which is not the same as a low-cost quality product/service. That's why I so often recommend Stablehost for shared Linux hosting.
Yesterday, 04:30 PM I'd stick with the VPS if you have no problems administering it.MT's shared offering though theoretically would have better uptimes and backup recovery however for your content, is it worth paying 20-40/month for it? Or can you live off 20/yr and do your own backups. It'd be a bonus of AlienVPS has R1, or some other type of data backup process.
Yesterday, 07:19 PM To be honest no particular type of hosting necessarily produces the best execution times of your pages — it's all about how the server's set up, and more importantly how many people you're sharing resources with. Many cheap VPS providers have you sharing CPU with so many other clients you can actually end up with less resources to make use of, regardless of RAM allocations.In my experience a VPS can offer the fastest WordPress performance, however it requires a fair bit of hands-on work. For my set-up I replaced the industry standard Apache with Nginx, set up PHP in an extremely efficient way, and as a result I can get consistent page execution times of about 0.040—0.060 seconds with a default WordPress installation.
Apache tends to be much more variable (0.100–0.500 on the same system), with a wider gap between the lowest and highest times encountered. Shared hosting makes this worse still. It might require more work, but if you're as obsessed as me with performance and above all consistency then it's the way to go.
As an aside, I use Linode. By far the best VPS company out of the dozen or so I've tried over the years, and the performance of their hardware is formidable. Apparently they have such an excess of CPU power in their system they don't even bother dividing it up like most VPS providers do, and having put it to the test I can agree with what's said.
Yesterday, 08:27 PM IIS 7 is also very powerful. It easily outperforms Apache, and you could argue how well it works against LiteSpeed or even nginx under various usage scenarios. You can also front-end IIS7 with nginx as reverse proxy, if you really want to get interesting. I've not had traffic to demand that just yet, but I have an open dev VPS where I may play around with that config later this year.Throw on WinCache and your PHP sites will fly.
If sites don't load in less than 1 second, I look for ways to improve every last ms.
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Can someone build a website from wordpress.com as well as wordpress.org If you can will the website be ranked as well by the search engines as blogger.com or another blogging / website would be.Search engines look at content, so both the self-hosted Wordpress (.org) or the Wordpress-hosted platform (wordpress.com) will work the same in that regard. There is no SEO penalty to having a "mysite.wordpress.com" URL, no matter what the SEO morons say. (You can pay Wordpress.com a small amount and have your free blog there use your own domain name and avoid the "wordpress.com" domain ... I think its $12 a year plus the cost of your domain name).However, there are some differences you should be aware of, mainly affecting your flexibility. Self-hosting a Wordpress.org installation allows you greater design choices, including building your own theme if you so desire. You can buy professional themes from WooThemes or ElegantThemes, or hire a designer. You can choose a host from among the thousands out there, which might be important to get a "local host" or partner with a company that is well respected.
You can also control if advertising appears on your site (Wordpress.com reserves the right to serve ads on their free hosting platform). This can be important if you need to ensure that your site doesn't have a competing product or idea advertised on it; a pro-Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster site might not want to have a anti-Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster advertised in a sidebar.
The flexibility extends to the content you can have on your site. This goes beyond the extremes of adult content into areas like future shopping carts for e-commerce, forums, etc.
But for search engine rankings? Content is what matters.
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I have been hosting some sites for quite some time.
The reason is, they are mostly hobby sites, they don't generate any income or very little and their service is cheap and they offer all I want (e.g. windows hosting with asp.net, php, sql server, coppermine photo gallery etc.)
The problem is, they are incredibly unreliable, I have had many problems with them but the last few days are beyond a joke.
On Wednesday, all my sites were down, I checked the control panel and services such as asp.net and php were disabled and I could not re-enable them.
My support ticket was ignored for several hours, as well as emails and requests for chat support. They took several more hours to "fix" it. Only that they didn't.
They configure the wrong version of asp.net, not too bad as I could fix it myself, but setup the php permissions wrong so the php sites didn't work properly.
Same story, ignoring tickets, emails, chats, only solved the next day.
hours after, all sites down again, this time they did reply promptly but took a while to restore the services.
Then yesterday, one site running wordpress was down due to a wrong php configuration. After several hours I asked for an update and they said they were working on it.
It's been 24 hours and the problem is still not solved, and they don't answer any request for updates.
Really, if you need any reliability for your site, skip ourinternet.us.
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Keep it up guys and thanks a lot for an awesome year..
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