I think it is my job to find every possible bad hosting situation. I am doing quite well so far. Here is the latest bizzaro from the dorks at VAR.

I have been wondering why my site has been slow and somewhat unresponsive at times. I figured it was the usual incredible server load, since it is usually high. I decided to check it and was wondering why it was in the red at at server load of 2. It seemed quite odd since I am paying for an account on a 2 cpu dual core xeon machine. Well guess what? Someone over at VAR/BLUSKY/DATACITES/whomever buys it next month, decided to put all of the resller accounts on a single XEON 2ghz server. I have an extra Dell SC1425 dual xeon 2.8 sitting around, maybe I should let them use it. The moral to this story is, when you think it can't get any worse, they are there to show you how wrong you can be.

The carnival never ends, it just moves on to the next town!

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Main >> Server Status >> Server Information

Processor InformationProcessor #1 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5130 @ 2.00GHz
Processor #1 speed: 2000.635 MHz
Processor #1 cache size: 4096 KB



Memory InformationMemory: 2074152k/2096512k available (2150k kernel code, 21400k reserved, 719k data, 164k init, 1179008k highmem)



System InformationLinux node100.jump-server.net 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL #1 Tue Feb 27 09:24:42 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux



Physcial Diskshda: ST3250620NS, ATA DISK drive
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63
hda: cache flushes supported



Current Memory Usage total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2075388 1745680 329708 0 264400 710588
-/+ buffers/cache: 770692 1304696
Swap: 4192924 442708 3750216
Total: 6268312 2188388 4079924



Current Disk UsageFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 981M 464M 468M 50% /
/dev/sda1 99M 20M 75M 21% /boot
none 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda8 195G 125G 61G 68% /home
/dev/sda6 981M 51M 881M 6% /tmp
/dev/sda3 15G 3.5G 11G 26% /usr
/dev/sda2 15G 8.5G 5.3G 62% /var
/tmp 981M 51M 881M 6% /var/tmp

Another varhosting thread, sorry to hear about your rough experience. I think you should look for a new hosting company. Try going through the offers forum on WHT it should be able to give you some leads. And in future try searching a bit about the company before signing up to avoid unneeded headaches.

Good luck with your hosting search :)

Another varhosting thread, sorry to hear about your rough experience. I think you should look for a new hosting company. Try going through the offers forum on WHT it should be able to give you some leads. And in future try searching a bit about the company before signing up to avoid unneeded headaches.

Good luck with your hosting search :)

Thanks for the words of advice, but March marks my 2nd year at VAR. I signed up when things were just starting the downward spiral. And as far as other hosts, I have been trying, but yet to find a good solution. I would have left sooner, but they disabled backups quite some time ago, so I am unable to get a copy of everything. Every time I try another company, I end up getting there during some problem. I just wanted to let people know that are still with VAR, to check their servers for the bait and switch. As of Feb 24th, I was still on a quad system (Dual, dual cores). I know because of the screenshot of the server load at 427.47... Yes, not a typo 427.47 server load.

Let me just say that my experiences with ResellerZoom are not much better.

That's a shame, sounds like VAR has been having some problems for a while now.

What sort of problems are you experiencing with Reseller Zoom? On the same line as VARH?

I would have left sooner, but they disabled backups quite some time ago, so I am unable to get a copy of everything. Every time I try another company, I end up getting there during some problem.

Any hosting providers offer free websites transfer can move your sites without the need of backup feature.