| I hate ipowerweb. I moved to media temple after my database connection kept on getting dropped. They said that the problem must be with another user on the grid (shared hosting sucks period) and that someone had managed to configure the mysql to allow more connections to their site, while sucking connections from mine. That is like saying "Please Please eat up my bullshit" - I wouldn't buy it for a second. Unless that user had full shell access to the mysql, which you don't get on shared servers, there is no way to configure what they were talking about. I have been with them for 3 years, have around 30 clients on them, and now they are beginning to fall apart from the inside out. They are like a worn out car, it needs to be replaced, and that means all the servers, generators, and the team of IT workers, who are out on cigarette breaks while my site goes down. After one huge news release about a clients site back around a year ago, the server happened to go down for the whole weekend after the article came out. They said "We are doing just the best we can, but unfortunately it will take around 48 hours to get the site back online" - I.E. someone couldn't find the god damn reboot button on the server to get it back online. I have gotten so much shit from them in the past, lies, etc, and the vDeck blows. It takes older sites, i.e. 3 years plus around 15 attempts to access the vDeck, if your a web developer reading this, think about crunch time when you are having to access your database through the vDeck, I had to just end up making a shortcut to PhpMyAdmin and literally by-pass the vDeck all together. I am now on a dedicated server over at MediaTemple and so far so good. |