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Unimpressed with BlueHost
My blog went down…again.
I got the following error when I logged into BlueHost:
2008-04-21 15:20:33: Performing MYSQL maintenance. ETA 30 minutes.
Shouldn’t you guys be doing things like that at 3 am instead of 3 pm?
I’ve been with BlueHost for sometime now. I went with the company because I wanted to support a local Utah business but my site goes down way too often due to problems at BlueHost. I often wonder how much my site has gone without my knowledge.  I know I’m on a shared server and I know its just a blog but should that really matter? In my line of work and throughout my network I am often asked where I would host a company Web sites. I have never recommended BlueHost and I never will. I don’t even know if they have some kind of enterprise solution and I don’t care to find out. I’ll keep sending people to MediaTemple for that stuff.
Just to be fair I should say that their support is decent.
At any rate, I hope that BlueHost cleans it up. I’m sure they could tell me how great they are but I’ve been unimpressed. Maybe the CEO should stop talking about how much he hates Microsoft and build a hosting service I can be proud to recommend.
Just my $0.02…
Shared hosting for the loss, Chris. Perhaps you can pool together a managed server with a few quantifiable friends…
Left by Blake on 04/21/2008@Blake:
not a bad idea…
Left by Chris Knudsen on 04/21/2008I decided to get out of the discount hosting that I was in and step up to something real. I made the switch to media temple about a month ago. I am on a DV server and it costs about $20 a month. That is about 4 times as much as I was paying before and I couldn’t be happier. I am not running about 10 websites from that same DV server. My pages haven’t gone down, and my page load times are almost 10 times faster.
I support local restaurants if the food is good.
I support local shops if the service is good.
but I don’t just give my business to people who are local because they are local. You have to deserve it. If your service isn’t amazing then I will buy it from Amazon for 20% less.
Left by Josh Carr Superstar on 04/22/2008