Site outages.... :(

Nik · Jun 23, 2006

You may have noticed the site dissapeared for a long period of time both yesterday and today. The hosting company blame it on one of their main fiber links being cut. They switched to a backup (which should have kicked in automatically and didn't) yesterday, and then this was cut today causing this afternoons outage. Can someone please go to germany and confiscate the scissors of them :x

I am now looking for a new hosting company.....

hyb · Jun 23, 2006

I've used 1&1 for 3 years now and never had a problem!

chiefbadger · Jun 23, 2006

We use 1&1 for out business site - new one just gone live by the way, so any comments appreciated! They have always been faultless with us too.

www.verticariskmanagement.com

Nik · Jun 23, 2006

Yeah, unfortunately for the bandwidth and space requirements we have, 1&1 are 3 times as expensive as the current host, but then you get what you pay for.

Going to have to raise more money from the site if thats the case, i wanted to try and keep it advert and membership fee free ideally.

Cue · Jun 23, 2006

try sputnik..... Andy 'll sort you out a decent price. ps, he's a bike man!!

Nik · Jun 23, 2006

Well I looked at Sputniks site and they offer

Business Pro Hosting @ Ã‚Â£195pa
* 100 MB Web Space
* 2 Gb/month of traffic

I'm currently paying Ã‚Â£60pa on the deal i'm on and get
75GB webspace
1110 GB/Month Bandwidth

Ok, i don't use more than 2% of that, but i still need a minimum of 4GB Webspace and 40GB/month bandwidth. I cant see them being able to provide that really, but i'll probably still enquire.

fazedesign · Jun 23, 2006

Nik,

Have a word with Jamie Beeston from http://www.register1.net/

He's a regular on Pistonheads and I know there are a lot of very satisfied customers of his on there - have a look through the "Computers and Stuff" section for some of his posts if you need any proof!

cardealer · Jun 24, 2006

All the tech detail a bit beyond me but my site hosted by www.ukip.co.uk (Not the political party I might add!)