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10-07-2006, 11:15 AM #1Newbie
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Switching from Dedicated back to Shared Hosting
I'm currently using two iweb.ca dedicated servers to host 4 websites. I'm considering going back to shared hosting. It would be way cheaper, and I wouldn't be responsible for all the technical stuff (security updates etc).
I'm considering this plan from aplus.net:
http://hosting.aplus.net/soloxr/marketing.html
170GB Storage
2000GB Transfer
$7.46/mo
I would be purchasing 2 of these plans ($15 dollars a month seems pretty cheap). Should I do this? Has anyone done this? What would the downside be?
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10-07-2006, 11:19 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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What kind of usage do you have on the servers?
If you are really looking to use even a fraction of 170GB space, you should not even consider a company offering crazy quotas.
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10-07-2006, 11:24 AM #3Newbie
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Originally Posted by YetiHost-Wullie
The iweb servers I have currently are:
Celeron 2.4Ghz
512MB RAM
80GB IDE
1500GB Traffic
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10-07-2006, 11:37 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by matt3830
If you actually use anything near what they offer, the downsides will probably be poor performance, frequent outages and eventual cancellation.http://www.srohosting.com
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10-07-2006, 12:24 PM #5Web Hosting Evangelist
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That plan is not possible. You're just asking for trouble....
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10-07-2006, 01:03 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by matt3830Fluid Hosting, LLC - Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure: Cloud Shared and Reseller, Cloud VPS, and Cloud Hybrid Server
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10-07-2006, 01:06 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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I just say: Don't do that!
You know what you can do? ... get one of those plans without canceling your dedicated servers and TEMPORARILY move your websites there to see what happens. You will get booted ...but maybe so you will believe meGot Fused?
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10-07-2006, 02:25 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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10-07-2006, 03:12 PM #9Junior Guru
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Listen guys. You can't put down a company's offering's just because they are 'crazy'. What's crazy now won't be so crazy in a few years to come.
Besides, you know is most cases the company may have something in their terms that state "You may not use your account in a way to store data" as well as "If your account utilises too much CPU, your account will be suspended."
Who says that's bad, and why should you stay away from them? -- Their service may be fantastic, better than a host offering realistic packages and plans.
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10-07-2006, 03:23 PM #10Web Hosting Evangelist
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Originally Posted by Neoboffin
Typically if a company is offering "Crazy" prices and setups like this it means they are looking at making a buck, not servicing their customers. They are more concerned with misleading you (even though they may state in thier TOS or AUP that they are not misleading you) to think you can actually use what they sold you rather than providing what actually sold you.
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10-07-2006, 04:13 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by Neoboffin
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10-07-2006, 06:04 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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Personally, I would never use Aplus because they called me a few times
as soon as I registered a domain, and I hate phone spammers.
And for the similar price, I think DreamHost is better (with 97 days money back policy, and 97$ discount coupons everywhere).
Also, there are many other well established el cheapo hosts, like servage, lunarpages, ******, ......
I've used some of them with satisfactory result for what I need.
But I would not use one of them, alone, without any backup plan.
If you combine a few of them, with Dynamic DNS, you can construct pretty redundant system with relatively short failover time (15 minutes or so), and I think that's enough for a small business.
If I need more reliability than that, I would look for a host that has everything setup in double or triple, already, rather than constructing DIY redundancy system with cheap hosts. (Not many hosts has such redundancy, though.)
And I would be paying 5 to 10 times more for what I'm paying now, I guess....
(But it would be a lot more reliable than using single dedicated server.)
In short, I wouldn't go for a dedicated server unless I need full root access or I want to run different servers.
As long as I can do everything with standard Apache/CGI, shared solution is almost always cheaper/easier,
and often more reliable/robust/resistant, IMO.Last edited by extras; 10-07-2006 at 06:13 PM.
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10-08-2006, 12:40 AM #13Location = SoapBox
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I'm currently using two iweb.ca dedicated servers to host 4 websites. I'm considering going back to shared hosting. It would be way cheaper, and I wouldn't be responsible for all the technical stuff (security updates etc).
I'm considering this plan from aplus.net:
http://hosting.aplus.net/soloxr/marketing.html
170GB Storage
2000GB Transfer
$7.46/mo
I would be purchasing 2 of these plans ($15 dollars a month seems pretty cheap). Should I do this? Has anyone done this? What would the downside be?
Since one of your concerns appears to be the server management, as well as reducing costs, I would consider alternate, more realistic methods of accomplishing this. Certainly it will not save you as much money as getting a shared account, however, you could look at consolidating those 2 small celerons into a single larger server - and depending how much value you put on your time, you could also get a fully managed server. These 2 steps will decrease your total cost of ownership and free up your time while still maintaining integrity of your hosted services..
Having said all of this, if you are just hosting personal sites on this server and you really could care less about service levels, performance, etc - then heck, go ahead and move them to an oversold shared environment - as any potential issues will not really cost you revenue, etc...www.cartika.com
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10-10-2006, 09:37 AM #14Web Hosting Master
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I'm currently using two iweb.ca dedicated servers to host 4 websites. I'm considering going back to shared hosting. It would be way cheaper, and I wouldn't be responsible for all the technical stuff (security updates etc).
The specs of the hosting plan at aplus are fine, but it's probably the resources restriction that you need to look at. These days any shared hosting plan will offer you plenty of traffic and plenty of disk space, but the restrictions are with used resources, something that is more abstract.
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10-10-2006, 09:59 AM #15Aspiring Evangelist
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170GB Storage. consider the size of hard drive.
My dedicated hard drive is only 160GB and i am paying quite a bit more than $15 a month. If it looks to good to be true it probabbly is.Rediscover online gaming Get Continuum / Subspace | Play Trenchwars
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10-10-2006, 10:25 AM #16Aspiring Evangelist
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While shared hosting MAY work for you, 1 $8 plan that "Includes 170GB" of disk space is not going to work out the way you think.
Maybe a few shared accounts, or a smalll reseller account at a good host. It sounds like this shared account you are looking at is WAY oversold.Rock solid hosting and dedicated servers since 1998!
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10-11-2006, 06:10 PM #17Web Hosting Guru
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If you want to cut costs and get management for the servers, merge the 2 servers in another bigger but only 1 and get server management services from any company you can find in WHT. There are several of them, some really good
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