{"id":2626,"date":"2013-01-06T02:54:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T07:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2013-01-06T12:16:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T17:16:29","slug":"giving-up-on-phpwebhosting-for-dreamhost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/01\/06\/giving-up-on-phpwebhosting-for-dreamhost","title":{"rendered":"giving up on phpwebhosting for dreamhost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/8342534373\/\" title=\"Setting @ICWestminster club by byte, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8363\/8342534373_2077978651_n.jpg?resize=320%2C320\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Setting @ICWestminster club\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/a>i&#8217;ve made numerous complaints, and i&#8217;ve finally decided to give up on phpwebhosting where i&#8217;ve been hosting the www components of bytebot.net for many years. why? very high load averages which lead to there being errors establishing connection to the databases. heck, httpd can&#8217;t push content either (static). it can occur when i post a new blog post. it can occur when someone else does so. its woefully annoying, and this is a goodbye to shared hosting with them.<\/p>\n<p>machines with 1gb of ram, 2gb of swap, 4 cores\u00a0Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz.<\/p>\n<p>[byte@chop byte]$ uptime<br \/> 12:32:52 up 46 days, 14:23, 1 user, load average: 41.76, 15.03, 5.88<\/p>\n<p>when all is said and done, this was just $10\/month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>so where am i going? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/r.cgi?629136\">dreamhost<\/a>. it is still shared hosting, but back in 2010 i signed up for a free account that gave me unlimited space. load averages seem to be a lot more sensible and there&#8217;s terabytes of storage space for users. pingdom suggests less than 4 minutes downtime in the last month which i consider acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>this is also a great month to do it &#8211; i&#8217;ve been blogging with wordpress since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/01\">january 2004<\/a> and its been at phpwebhosting ever since. farewell old host.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20giving%20up%20on%20phpwebhosting%20for%20dreamhost&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F01%2F06%2Fgiving-up-on-phpwebhosting-for-dreamhost&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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The idea here is to scan newspaper clippings, parts of books, and so on, place it in a DMS, and give it tags (like Flickr\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1617,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/12\/13\/the-sun-sets","url_meta":{"origin":2626,"position":4},"title":"The Sun sets","date":"13\/12\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I no longer work at MySQL\/Sun Microsystems. So if you've sent any email to {colin|byte}@mysql.com, or {colin.charles|byte}@sun.com in the last month, they'd silently have gone into \/dev\/null as I have not had access to my accounts. Don't hesitate to resend them to byte@bytebot.net if you'd like me to see them.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":383,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/15\/there-can-be-only-one","url_meta":{"origin":2626,"position":5},"title":"there can be only one","date":"15\/3\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Its probably worth noting that my fedoraproject.org email address is actually byte@fedoraproject.org as opposed to it being both byte@ and colin@. 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