Move To Hostgator Completed
This is more of an internal note then anything else and my quick apologies to anyone who has a different experience while accessing my blog. This morning I started and now just about completed move of this blog to my hostgator account.
I got to so fed up with increasingly poor support and stability from Site5 hosting aver the period of last 2-3 month that I’m moving everything off of their servers. I have also removed this hosting from the list of my recommendations. Don’t take me wrong – they USED TO have one of the best options available and what you get for your money is probably still the best but their support is gone to sh*t.
So there you have it – an explanation on why you might have seen a few glitches this morning …
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[...] the looks of it I’m not the only one tired with Site5 either. Alex over at Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er recently issued similar complaints and moved his blog over to another hosts, while Joe over at [...]
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[...] the looks of it I’m not the only one tired with Site5 either. Alex over at Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er recently issued similar complaints and moved his blog over to another hosts, while Joe over at [...]
Looks like the change was pretty seemless here. You’ll have to let us know how your new host is after a while.
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John,
I’ve been with hostgator for close to a year – awesome service and great uptime and no issues. Site5 used to have similar service but since they decided to move and merged with some company – it went down the drain, in my opinion.
As far as move – just relocate the blog and for a while have 4 DNS servers: 2 pointing to old host and 2 to new. Once new blog verified that it works properly – pull the plug on old host
Hi Alex. Stumbled on to your blog via Lorelle’s. I am very happy having read this post and the comments associated with it. You see just yesterday I signed up with hostgator myself after having gotten tired of the startlogic changeover and customer “service.” I have enlisted the help of others to make the change (as I’m not computer literate), and you know how change can effect folks. I’m so glad I happened upon this article as it calms me some.
Tom
Change over is really fairly simple.
I simply had 2 copies of the blog running – one on each host and added hostgator DNS servers to my registrar. Once I verified that changes started to propagate and I was able to resolve my domain name via hostgator servers and my blog functions properly I pulled the plug on Site5.
It is sad when service I used to love for the quality dramatically goes down in quality of support and systems stability. I’ve had issues with them where my sites went down for over 12 hours and only me (a customer) opening ticket with their support promoted action on their admin’s part. Problem is I still have 3 sites to move from them by mid January as they will not be getting repeat customer from me …
Alex
Hi Alex,
I’ve been with Hostgator for a couple of years now and have never had a problem with them in any way, shape or form. I recommend them very highly. Prior to going with them I had problems with some other webhosts and I can tell you unless Hostgator radically changes, I’ll be sticking with them… period!
I think in the entire time I’ve been with them I’ve had one downtime for a short period of time, about 15 minutes and that was it.
Deanna
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Thanks for feedback Deanna,
I’ve been with them for about 11 month now and not a single issue
So am happy ….
Alex