Re: [Tiki-devel] [Tikiwiki-users] Alternative to BlueHost for hosting a dozen Tikisites

[Rick S. <ric...@ke...>]

I have a main and subdomain (that is, 2 sites) running on both.

Honestly, they're both pretty much the same. I haven't had any problems with 
either.

-R

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Greetings from Sanford, NC, USA!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Desilets, Alain" <Ala...@nr...>
To: "'Rick Sapir'" <ric...@ke...>; "Tiki users mailing list" 
<tik...@li...>; 
<tik...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:50 AM
Subject: RE: [Tikiwiki-users] Alternative to BlueHost for hosting a dozen 
Tikisites


Did that include running multiple Tiki instances on the same account?

Which of the two did you prefer?

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Sapir [mailto:ric...@ke...]
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:42 AM
To: Tiki users mailing list; tik...@li...; Desilets, 
Alain
Subject: Re: [Tikiwiki-users] Alternative to BlueHost for hosting a dozen 
Tikisites

I've used Powweb and Hostgator in the past, for low-end, shared hosting.

-R

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Greetings from Sanford, NC, USA!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Desilets, Alain" <Ala...@nr...>
To: <tik...@li...>;
<tik...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 8:16 PM
Subject: [Tikiwiki-users] Alternative to BlueHost for hosting a dozen
Tikisites


>I have 8 low-traffic Tiki sites which are hosted on my BlueHost account,
>alaindesilets.org.
>
> Although BlueHost advertises their service as being "unlimited", it turns
> out that if you read the fine print, there are some pretty severe limits,
> and I am hitting them. I just received the message below:
>
> ---
> Dear Alain:
>
> It has come to our attention that your site is using an excessive amount
> of MySQL resources on your BlueHost.com account. This is causing
> performance problems on your website as well as for other customers that
> are on this server. It can cause our servers to crash and cause additional
> downtime.
>
> Our research shows that server performance degrades when the MySQL usage
> is over 1000 tables and/or 3 GB on a single account or 1000 tables and/or
> 2 GB on a single database.  In order to ensure optimal performance for
> your account and the others in your shared hosting environment, we request
> that you reduce the MySQL usage on your account to under these limits by
> 01/17/2012.
>
> Your account information:
>   Total MySQL Database Size: 161.23 MB
>   Total MySQL Tables: 2226
> ---
>
> In other words, they give me 1 week to "fix" this, or else (actually, it
> doesn't say or else what, but I don't want to chance it).
>
> Is it me or is this message bogus? Sure, my account has 2226 tables, but
> most of them are really small, and only occupy a total of 0.16G (which is
> much, much less than their 3G limit)!
>
> And these are fairly low traffic sites. For example, for the month of
> January, the total average page views was 1135 for all 8 sites, and the
> total average number of daily hits was 9910. Doesn't seem like something
> that should stress a shared server too much.
>
> Anyways, I am now looking for an alternative to BlueHost
>
> Does anybody have a suggestion?
>
> Thx.
>
> Alain
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