Comments on: Wordpress killing my Memset Miniserver?

By: Matthew Hill

Matthew Hill — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:40:19 +0000

Cheers for input Stuart. From personal experience I wouldn’t touch any of the GX hosting services since their customer service sucks.

I’ve moved to EzPz now and am perfectly happy with the reseller hosting that I bought. I’m hoping I won’t need to revisit this issue of hosting any time soon, I spent far too much time on it over the last two years.

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:20:45 +0000

I should say that’s 1K ‘per day’ of traffic per box!

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:19:37 +0000

Just in case you are still searching. WebFusion’s cheap VPS solution has been (in-the-main) great for us.

http://www.webfusion.co.uk/virtual-private-servers/fusion-value-virtual-private-server-hosting/

We host around 10 websites per box and the combined traffic on each box is pretty low at about 1K per box.

What is really good about their stuff to us is:

[1] Cost £17/Month
[2] Plesk Control Panel
[3] Monthly rolling contract

WordPress is in operation on one of the boxes and we have only ever had severe outage when we get spikes in traffic. But we think that this was down to two sites getting serious spikes at the same time, rather than anything specific to using WordPress.

We do use a cache plug in for WordPress, and find that with around 200-500 visits a day it runs fine on the VPS. We have also moved the other website off this box now to remove the chance of them both spiking at the same time again and taking the server down!

Also worth noting (and I cant speak for c-panel) but Plesk as a control panel has a migration assistant built in that allows you to transfer any website from one plesk-based server, to another one. This is great as whisking a website away from a dead server and reinstating it on a new server usually take me 30 mins these days. Change the DNS and you have a pain free move process for any website.

Hope it helps.

By: Matthew Hill

Matthew Hill — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:42:55 +0000

Cheers for the heads up Rob, I forgot about that! :-)

By: Rob Barham

Rob Barham — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:03:14 +0000

Pssst, it still says “Hosted on a lovely Miniserver at Memset” on your footer ;)

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Frisk design : Standards Compliant Web Design » Moving from Memset to EzPz — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:27:42 +0000

[...] in September I wrote about the memset Miniserver not being good enough for my site, and it’s only finally now that I had the time to make the switch [...]

By: Matthew Hill

Matthew Hill — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:14:07 +0000

Cheers Stuart for the recommendation. I’ll definitely check them out. :-)

By: Stuart Whitman

Stuart Whitman — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:44:50 +0000

Hi Matt,
I’ve just come across your website and
it’s probably a bit late now but I would recommend clustered.net. The site might not be very inspiring but their service and support certainly are!

I don’t run Wordpress on their but I do have about 20 client domains running Expression Engine some with 3 – 4k visitors a day. I’ve been using them for over 18 months and they’re always quick to respond with any queries and I’ve only had about 10 mins of downtime since I started.

I’m using the standard VDS 1024/25 with management and it’s 50GBP per month.

If your still looking then contact John Morrison (john [at] clustered [dot] net) and I’m sure he’d help you out.

I’m not associated with them in anyway it’s just it took me 3 years to find decent webhosting company and I feel passionately about them now!

By: Simon Jones

Simon Jones — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:13:20 +0000

Well, I’d say that EZPZ are pretty good so far. Though I actually shifted a number of my customers to Binasys a couple of months ago purely because I knew there service was solid. Plus I wanted those customers to take care of their own hosting needs!

I believe the EZPZ reseller account allows for individual cpanel logins. However, I elected to go for the single virtual hosted option you mention purely because most of the domains were either my personal stuff, or stuff I look after for very low maintenance technophobic customers.

My experience of EZPZ so far is VERY limited (we’re talking less than 2 weeks!), but I have been extremely impressed thus far. Check back in a couple of months and I’ll tell you how I’m getting on :)

By: Matthew Hill

Matthew Hill — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:33:58 +0000

Cheers for the input, very helpful. How have you been getting on with EZPZ? I’m thinking of going back to a shared solution, as my blogs aren’t exactly high traffic and I’m not sure I ever needed a (semi) dedicated solution anyway.

The one thing I do need to do is host multiple sites. I’m familiar with WHM and cPanel — does EZPZ handle multiple sites OK? Can I have a separate cPanel account for each domain, or do they do one of those weird ‘it’s all lumped together as virtual sites of your main domain’?

I don’t remember writing about being ripped off. But if you do ever find my design ripped off, I’d be glad to know about it! Cheers. :-)