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Re: Site/Forum Performance
« Reply #15 on: September 03, 2010, 10:23:38 PM »
Not necessarily with pricing but support and feature wise HostGo has fallen behind.
Having suffered through a lot of bad hosts, I'd say HostGo is one of the better ones. True, they're not perfect. No host is. Things happen. Some of it you can avoid, some you can't. It's the overall picture that matters to me. And overall, I have been very pleased with them.

As far as prices and features go, they are definitely the best I've seen. Sure you can get a gazillion MBs of space and bandwidth, and every feature you can think of from Fast Eddy's Hosting for $1 a month....but you're gonna "pay" for it sooner or later. I personally would rather shell out a few bucks more for a reliable host than get the cheapest possible plan I can find.

I don't know if you've had the problems I've had regarding video and audio downloads, but I found out something rather interesting this week. A few months ago, I downgraded my plan to the cheapest one ($6.95/mo). When I got this month's invoice, I noticed I was being billed at my old rate ($14.95). Naturally, I asked HostGo what the deal was. They informed me that some of my PHP scripts were using too many resources, so they had to change me back. I then asked if they could tell me what script(s) were resource hogs.

I was less than surprised to find out that two of them were the ones that people were complaining about (the flash player and audio clip downloader). So I converted all the video and audio links to direct download links. Problem solved (so far)! :biggrin:
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Re: Site/Forum Performance
« Reply #16 on: September 03, 2010, 10:53:13 PM »
Not necessarily with pricing but support and feature wise HostGo has fallen behind.
Having suffered through a lot of bad hosts, I'd say HostGo is one of the better ones. True, they're not perfect. No host is. Things happen. Some of it you can avoid, some you can't. It's the overall picture that matters to me. And overall, I have been very pleased with them.

As far as prices and features go, they are definitely the best I've seen. Sure you can get a gazillion MBs of space and bandwidth, and every feature you can think of from Fast Eddy's Hosting for $1 a month....but you're gonna "pay" for it sooner or later. I personally would rather shell out a few bucks more for a reliable host than get the cheapest possible plan I can find.

I don't know if you've had the problems I've had regarding video and audio downloads, but I found out something rather interesting this week. A few months ago, I downgraded my plan to the cheapest one ($6.95/mo). When I got this month's invoice, I noticed I was being billed at my old rate ($14.95). Naturally, I asked HostGo what the deal was. They informed me that some of my PHP scripts were using too many resources, so they had to change me back. I then asked if they could tell me what script(s) were resource hogs.

I was less than surprised to find out that two of them were the ones that people were complaining about (the flash player and audio clip downloader). So I converted all the video and audio links to direct download links. Problem solved (so far)! :biggrin:
Ive worked on optimizing the forum code a little but reliability and speed still sucks. You haven't noticed any problems with the forums? For the site its fine. For something like a forum they seem to be very poor. I'm not bashing them or anything but I am just not happy with the service for the forums. It should not take up to 7seconds at times to generate a forum page. Their database server seems to be the main issue

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Re: Site/Forum Performance
« Reply #17 on: September 03, 2010, 10:56:49 PM »
I doubt i could host it on a home server lol but how much bandwidth would be needed if i could?  :dunno:  and port 80 is off limits as well for security reasons from Verizon if i could  :P
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Re: Site/Forum Performance
« Reply #18 on: September 03, 2010, 11:10:44 PM »
I doubt i could host it on a home server lol but how much bandwidth would be needed if i could?  :dunno:  and port 80 is off limits as well for security reasons from Verizon if i could  :P
Running a website on a residential system is not recommended for any situation. Its unreliable and slow even in the best circumstances

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Re: Site/Forum Performance
« Reply #19 on: September 22, 2010, 01:21:32 AM »
Just an update: Our host has given us access to a few more server resources and refunded us for a month. Keep us posted on if things are better

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Re: Site/Forum Performance
« Reply #20 on: September 25, 2010, 01:46:06 PM »
Searches are still slow.
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Re: Site/Forum Performance
« Reply #21 on: September 25, 2010, 03:08:32 PM »
Searches are still slow.
Thats because the database is considerably large. I do not like clearing old topics and post because I thinks its valuable preserving posts and discussions. I think out database is like 50mb+ at the moment.

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Re: Site/Forum Performance
« Reply #22 on: September 25, 2010, 04:07:37 PM »
Just an update: Our host has given us access to a few more server resources.
Really? Like what?
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Re: Site/Forum Performance
« Reply #23 on: September 25, 2010, 06:18:04 PM »
Just an update: Our host has given us access to a few more server resources.
Really? Like what?
"The specified problem might be due to the lack of memory for the mysql query operations. I have increased the mysql query cash memory. This might have solved your issue.Please verify it from your end."

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Re: Site/Forum Performance
« Reply #24 on: September 25, 2010, 10:03:27 PM »
"The specified problem might be due to the lack of memory for the mysql query operations. I have increased the mysql query cash memory. This might have solved your issue.Please verify it from your end."
Oh. They increased memory for me too. It didn't help. :)
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Re: Site/Forum Performance
« Reply #25 on: September 25, 2010, 10:05:53 PM »
"The specified problem might be due to the lack of memory for the mysql query operations. I have increased the mysql query cash memory. This might have solved your issue.Please verify it from your end."
Oh. They increased memory for me too. It didn't help. :)
lol. :P Well things seem cool for now. Time shall tell. I am very pleased with their response though.

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Re: Site/Forum Performance
« Reply #26 on: September 26, 2010, 09:13:06 PM »
The server has been pretty unstable lately. There are often connection problems.
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Re: Site/Forum Performance
« Reply #27 on: September 26, 2010, 10:36:58 PM »
The server has been pretty unstable lately. There are often connection problems.

It's always like that. ;) You've just gotta be patient at times.

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Re: Site/Forum Performance
« Reply #28 on: September 27, 2010, 02:37:05 AM »
The server has been pretty unstable lately. There are often connection problems.

It's always like that. ;) You've just gotta be patient at times.
Really? Even lately? There are occasionally database errors at certain times. I thought performance has been decent

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Re: Site/Forum Performance
« Reply #29 on: September 27, 2010, 03:04:03 PM »
I just got a 505 Server error message, i think it was 505.