site was down for a little while

[Leon]

The site was just down for a little while. I am working with the hosting company to find out if they can provide "good" service and not just (lip) service.



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[Republicaninmass]

I was worried there for a moment

[drc]

Happens to most sites, even facebook and eBay.

[HOF Auto Rookies]

I thought my computer at work was messed up, I restarted it like 3 times lol

[sycks22]

I was hoping it wasn't my old work computer. What else are teacher's supposed to do during training days?

[zljones]

Originally Posted by HOF Auto Rookies

I thought my computer at work was messed up, I restarted it like 3 times lol

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[BleedinBlue]

My boss was wondering why I was getting so much done this afternoon...

[bigjaco]

Leon, have you looked into AWS (Amazon Web Services)?

I found it to be cheaper, easier and much more scalable then a dedicated box.

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[Leon]

Originally Posted by bigjaco

Leon, have you looked into AWS (Amazon Web Services)?

I found it to be cheaper, easier and much more scalable then a dedicated box.

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The company we use to host this site is/was one recommended by our s/w manufacturer, Vbulletin. I think they will do fine once we get on our own server. IF that doesn't work, or we have many more issues, I will get a hold of the folks at Amazon. Not sure how you can be more scalable than a dedicated server? Our little site probably doesn't require a lot of bandwidth.

[bigjaco]

AWS uses cloud based virtual machine which you can clone or spin up reserve instances as the site requires. So a dedicated machine has fixed resources (memory, processors, bandwidth) the advantage of cloud virtual machines is you can scale automatically by demand and only pay for the resources you use.

I switched from dedicated to AWS and will save 40% on my hosting.

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[Leon]

Originally Posted by bigjaco

AWS uses cloud based virtual machine which you can clone or spin up reserve instances as the site requires. So a dedicated machine has fixed resources (memory, processors, bandwidth) the advantage of cloud virtual machines is you can scale automatically by demand and only pay for the resources you use.

I switched from dedicated to AWS and will save 40% on my hosting.

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I understand. For the last 21 yrs I have sold technology and am Citrix, VMware, HP, EMC, IBM, MS sales etc....certified. When I talk about a dedicated machine I am not speaking of a stand alone box I am speaking of a dedicated VM server (session). best regards

[bigjaco]

I knew you were a multi-facetted nerd. I just switched to AWS very happy I did so. Worth checking out, but sounds like you have it on lock-down.

MCT, MCITP, multi MCTS here. :-)

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[Leon]

The site has been down again today. My apologies. To reiterate, we are on a server that has many other domains/sites on it. It is a bandwidth issue. Yesterday I made a fairly substantial investment for us to be on our own cloud server. Hopefully within the next week we will be fully moved over. After that the hosting company says we should not have these issues again and our site should be faster too. My biggest pet peeve about websites is slowness or being down. I have also paid for a hard copy back up to be sent to me on DVD....so if anything ever explodes I will have a full copy of our site on a dvd and it can be retrieved, though it might take a few days. Once again my apologies. Thanks for your patience.

[deebro041]

Thanks Leon for your commitment!!

[Clark7781]

Leon, for the amount of money we all pay per month to use this site, you really should be ashamed of yourself! How dare it go down for even on milli-second!

Of COURSE I'm just kidding. Never look a gift horse in the mouth. This is your baby and you graciously let us play in your sandbox. Thank you for giving this to us!

[mrvster]

paul...

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