I have been trying to locate a high quality hosting provider now for 3-months, and my first two attempts have failed miserably. Dreamhost had cool features and great support, but their infrastructure was not very realiable. 1and1 also had some useful features, but their support was horrible (I was getting 500 internal server error messages [...]
I have had nothing but problems with 1and1 as a shared hosting provider, so I decided to switch providers yet again. Hopefully the third time is the charm, and my new provider (Pair Networks) will be more reliable! Let me know if you experience any issues!
After experiencing several outages with dreamhost, I decided to move prefetch.net to 1and1. Several folks I know use 1and1 for hosting, and I have heard numerous good things about the company. If anyone notices anything bizarre with prefetch.net, please shoot me an email or leave a comment.
I had my first extended downtime with Dreamhost today. According to my cron job that runs content-check every minute, my site was down for close to 30 minutes. I hope this is an isolated event, and plan to evaluate other providers in case I need to move my domain again. If anyone has recommendations on [...]
While chatting with one of my friends a few months back, the subject of hosting providers came up. My friend has been hosting content with Dreamhost for quite some time now, and he has been extremely happy with their service. After reviewing their service plans, I decided to give them a try, and prefetch.net is [...]
I am not sure what is happening to Comcast’s IP network as of late, but I am frequently seeing significant packet loss on my cable modem connection: $ ping www.google.com PING www.l.google.com (64.233.179.99): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 64.233.179.99: icmp_seq=14 ttl=238 time=25.527 ms 64 bytes from 64.233.179.99: icmp_seq=15 ttl=238 time=23.751 ms 64 bytes from [...]
