Still having Tech Issues here…
Just a quick update on things…
Newegg and FEDEX finally did get the new motherboard to me on Friday as promised so my Quad Core beastie is back online. As Usual both Debian Linux and Ubuntu Linux saw the hardware out of the box so no tech issues on my system at this point. The ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe MOBO is working fine at the moment. I just hope this MOBO holds up more then a year.
Trying to update my backup of the files on the main server is proving to be a Royal Clusterfark and a half. Both Lunarpages Dreamer Server and Comcast’s CRAPTASTIC broadband connection keep cutting out.
Try backing up almost 4 Gig’s worth of data off a Lunarpages Server and crappy Comcast broadband and keep having the server and connection drop off and you can kind of figure my rotten mood today. Can’t even begin to count the wasted Gigabytes of wasted bandwidth today because neither Lunarpages nor Comcast will provide reliable service.
With Comcast’s bandwidth caps it wouldn’t surprise me it Comcast deliberately messes up user traffic on it’s network pipes so users burn up more bandwidth and incur additional bandwidth costs by Comcast. Perfect racket for Comcast.
Lunarpages is no better at service quality then Comcast. Lunarpages, like ALL hosting companies, tries to put as many sites as they can on a shared server. Unfortunately, when you get too greedy and put too many sites on a shared server the performance of your site goes to hell especially if you are dependent upon a PHP and MySQL engine to power the site. Lunarpages server Admins must get their Quality and Reliability playbook from Comcast.
If reliable fixed IP broadband service comes to the house then I’d start self hosting the site in less then a heartbeat. Unfortunately until that happens I’m stuck with a Hosting Company. All these Hosting companies I’ve used or looked into over the years ‘Stink on Ice”. Either you get hosed on the price or you get hosed on server features and performance with Web hosting companies.
While Lunarpages ‘Stinks on ice’ they stink less then other companies I’ve used or looked in to. Doesn’t say much for the Web Hosting companies does it??
I’ll get the Blog posts I’ve been working on published as soon as I can, assuming I can get Lunarpages overloaded Servers and Comcast’s craptasic broadband connection to co-operate….
