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I’ve had to move servers again and the migration was completed over the weekend. I’d like to thank my new hosts WiredTree for a very professional move, which had no major hiccups. Already users should see major speed improvements on the site, which will increase over the coming weeks as we tweak the server.
I decided to move away from my previous hosts Liquidweb because the way my bandwidth usage was going thanks to Windows 7 News, which has grown a lot faster than I’d expected (or hoped!), I was going to break through my 2TB bandwidth usage in a month or so. Buying more bandwidth wasn’t economic with Liquidweb, and in fact it was actually cheaper getting a second dedicated server which would give me a second allowance.
However, I decided to move because I was getting a bit frustrated with the turnaround on support issues. One of the problems of being UK based is I tend to be going to be bed when site usage starts to peak, and of course that’s when problems occur. So, I wasn’t happy that LiquidWeb were too slow to respond to issues, particularly when I wanted to sleep!
So far, I’m very happy with Wiredtree and their support has been fantastic. My new server is a beast and is probably over-specified , but I’ve done this deliberately as I’d rather pay more for additional reliability and sleep! Reliability has recently become a more pressing issue as I now depend on the income my sites make to pay my bills, whereas before the income was just a bit of extra pocket money.
Here’s my new spec:
- Intel Dual Xeon Harpertown 5420 (2.50GHZ 12MB Cache)
- 16GB ECC Registered
- Primary Disk: Hardware Raid-5 3×250GB 7.2k RPM SATAII 16MB Cache
- Additional Drive: 250GB 7.2k RPM SATAII 16MB Cache to run mysql databases
- Remote Backup Space: 50 GB Remote Backup Space
As you can see I’ve also added an off-site backup option. Losing my server would be an absolute disaster for me. If you are not backing up offline then I highly recommend that you download a backup every couple of days.
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