When Your Web Host Has “Issues”
I have been quietly struggling with an important issue lately — don’t you love the word, issues? — centered on the workings of my web host (the guilty shall remain nameless, at least for now). 
Turns out that they have been having some hardware and software problems that have slowed down the speed of sites that use databases, namely MySQL. As it turns out, every single one of my WordPress blogs are hosted through various accounts I have with them.
Supposedly, the issue is now resolved but I have noticed that there are times when I pull up a page on my blogs, the page will not load. This usually means that I get a 500 internal server message or a Firefox “can’t find page” notice appears.
Let’s Shut it Down
Last Friday afternoon, their entire system shut down for about twenty minutes time. For most people twenty minutes isn’t all that much, but I do host six websites with them and several are usually very busy. Never mind that this hosting company guarantees 99.9% up time.I am not complaining, simply making an observation. Yet, whenever there is a problem with a web host doesn’t that problem reverberate to impact everything that you do? Namely, uploading files to the internet or blogging.
I’m hoping that the current “issues” of this provider are over. I check their message boards frequently (when they are up and running) and read as many of the messages from other webmasters as I can. I may not understand all of the technical gizmo talk, but I certainly can relate to when a site is down.
Just a minor rant in the grand scheme of life.
10 Responses to “When Your Web Host Has “Issues””
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My last webhost had lots of issues going down daily in the middle of the night for several months. They said it wasn’t actually going down but they were updating the servers .. whatever it was no one could reach my sites during that time and I could work on them either. that’s down to me.
Then at the beginning of February they closed my account saying that a WP script had over used the CPU process .. wouldn’t tell me anymore about it so I moved to Lunarpages after finally getting my backups from them. God that was a nightmare. So just be careful I’ve heard a lot of stories with people having similar problems with their host and then all of a sudden their account gets shut down. Back up your site(s) daily!
Good advice, Tricia. I do that now. I think that stinks when a web host suddenly closes everything down — I cannot imagine being faced with having to handle that type of a problem.