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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Selling Stock Direct => Topic started by: Ron on February 10, 2014, 02:58
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Blue host down again? Sick of it
Really need to get my site moved to another host with 100% uptime. And money back from BH. Aweful performance.
I can advice anyone starting up a website NOT to go with Blue Host
Ugh, never moved a sited before, need to read up on that.
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Even their support is down !!!?
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I cant even email them, emails fail to go through. LOL
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LOL, a minus. Eejits
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Someone just sent me a note saying that they could not get into my site but when I went to confirm that it was down it was back up again. I can see your site too Ron.
Didn't they have issues right after some server work several months ago and then things were running smooth for awhile? I'm wondering because I had received an e-mail from them about doing some server work last week and now they are having problems again it seems.
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Symbiostock com and org are down as well
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Oops! Google Chrome could not find semmickphoto.com
Did you mean: www.semmickphoto.com
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Oops! Google Chrome could not find www.symbiostock.com (http://www.symbiostock.com)
Try reloading: www.symbiostock.com
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It's not just you! http://www.semmickphoto.com (http://www.semmickphoto.com) looks down from here.
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Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Subject: Urgent: My site is down
Sent: 10/02/2014 08:14
The following recipient(s) cannot be reached:
'Bluehost Support Team' on 10/02/2014 08:15
Server error: '450 4.1.2 <[email protected]>: Recipient address rejected: Domain not found'
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It's not just you! http://semmickphoto.com (http://semmickphoto.com) looks down from here.
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Could it be something with an international connection or something on your end that's not connecting? I can get into your site via the link in your signature and by typing it in. I can also get into both Symbiostock sites -.com and .org
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What do you get when you click this
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://semmickphoto.com/ (http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://semmickphoto.com/)
Because everything is working for me, except sites hosted with bluehost
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Oops! Google Chrome could not find www.karensarragaphotography.com (http://www.karensarragaphotography.com)
Try reloading: www.karensarragaphotography.com
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I guess they must have redundant servers and something is down somewhere but not all of them and it depends how you are routed. I tried typing your site into the "is it me..." Site and got results saying it was down but then went directly there and successfully navigated to several pages and executed searches.
Did you try posting on there Facebook page? I think they were communicating via FBI last time they had issues. Maybe you can reach them that way.
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Weird, thanks for checking.
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Weird, thanks for checking.
Have you here in California too
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I get "It's just you. http://semmickphoto.com (http://semmickphoto.com) is up. " here in Canada. I have a "PingdomAlert"(google it, free service) notifying me by e-mail when my BlueHost site is down. According to them, yes, there has been a hic-up, my site wasn't available for full 4 (four) minutes (240 seconds). I don't consider this being a big problem...
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Its back up, no idea what happened, but all sites supported by BH were down for me.
Anyhoo, still sick of the repeating down time. I need to get a new host before June of this year.
Thanks all.
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After too many frustrations with Bluehost, I ditched them late last year. Having a much better time elsewhere.
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Not such a bad webpage you have, Ron.
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Thank you Jens.
Rucos, who is your host?
Cheers
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I upgraded to a managed VPS with KnownHost (Referral Link (http://www.knownhost.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=1184_0_3_1))
Costs a lot more, but much faster and fantastic service.
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I use Green Geeks. Their customer service is very fast when you have a problem (a problem that I usually create...)
And they are eco-friendly!
I have a referral link somewhere but I don't know where...
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I've been saying it for months now. BlueHost, HostMonster, HostGator, all run on the same servers and all are garbage hosting companies. I really don't know why so many folks recommend them, other than because they're cheap. So I guess if you want cheap and unreliable, go with these companies.
Otherwise, avoid them.
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I received a warning e-mail about 12 hours prior to the downtime:
"Tomorrow night, beginning between the hours of 8 PM - 4 AM MST, we will be performing a kernel update on your server. We estimate the outage to be approximately 15-30 minutes. During this time, your email, website and account will not be accessible. This updated kernel brings a number of significant enhancements in all aspects of the kernel, the integral part of which the rest of the Operating System relies upon. You can read more about the changes in this kernel at http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.4. (http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.4.)
We apologize that we cannot give you an exact time-frame between these 8 hours as to when you will experience the downtime due to the number of additional servers we will be performing this update on as well.
Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this planned outage, please contact support."
So this is what they were doing.
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I guess they took down their own support as well then. LOL
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I got that same email but it was back on the 4th so it should have been complete for me yet I had reports of outage last night.
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can't do anything about bluehost..
but what I can do is recommend you godaddy web hosting..
I have been with them for 3 years now and it has been up almost %100 (I think my site was down for like an hour in 3 years and they gave me some store credits as an apology)
I have hosted my own sites since 2006 and used like 4 different companies.. I experienced major downtime issues on all of them apart from godaddy..
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I've been saying it for months now. BlueHost, HostMonster, HostGator, all run on the same servers and all are garbage hosting companies. I really don't know why so many folks recommend them, other than because they're cheap. So I guess if you want cheap and unreliable, go with these companies.
Otherwise, avoid them.
I have over 150 domains hosted with HostGator and have VERY rare downtime. Also great customer service. That's why I recommend them.
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can't do anything about bluehost..
but what I can do is recommend you godaddy web hosting..
I have been with them for 3 years now and it has been up almost %100 (I think my site was down for like an hour in 3 years and they gave me some store credits as an apology)
I have hosted my own sites since 2006 and used like 4 different companies.. I experienced major downtime issues on all of them apart from godaddy..
As a web developer, I REALLY don't like working on GoDaddy's servers. I love them for domain registration, but I always warn people away from their hosting because they make everything more difficult for a coder.
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I've been saying it for months now. BlueHost, HostMonster, HostGator, all run on the same servers and all are garbage hosting companies. I really don't know why so many folks recommend them, other than because they're cheap. So I guess if you want cheap and unreliable, go with these companies.
Otherwise, avoid them.
Cheap and unreliable- sounds like my current car! :-[
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I've been saying it for months now. BlueHost, HostMonster, HostGator, all run on the same servers and all are garbage hosting companies. I really don't know why so many folks recommend them, other than because they're cheap. So I guess if you want cheap and unreliable, go with these companies.
Otherwise, avoid them.
Cheap and unreliable- sounds like my current car! :-[
no, my ex wife!
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I've been saying it for months now. BlueHost, HostMonster, HostGator, all run on the same servers and all are garbage hosting companies. I really don't know why so many folks recommend them, other than because they're cheap. So I guess if you want cheap and unreliable, go with these companies.
Otherwise, avoid them.
Cheap and unreliable- sounds like my current car! :-[
no, my ex wife!
I want to say that but I am still paying her alimony & child support thus fearful she might read this site and raise my payments!
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BlueHost, HostMonster, HostGator, all run on the same servers and all are garbage hosting companies. I really don't know why so many folks recommend them...
Probably because of referrals.
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I guess they took down their own support as well then. LOL
(http://i59.tinypic.com/72st53.gif)Done with your panic attack?
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I've been with BlueHost for a few years (prior to Symbiostock) and although they're not perfect, they're not bad, at least for the shared hosting. I have no experience of any higher end stuff from them.
They did have that long ish outage last year and they did change PHP versions once without notifying users, but otherwise things have been good for me.
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My site is down right now. Same old problems with HostMonster/BlueHost/HostGator.
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I've been with BlueHost for a few years (prior to Symbiostock) and although they're not perfect, they're not bad, at least for the shared hosting. I have no experience of any higher end stuff from them.
They did have that long ish outage last year and they did change PHP versions once without notifying users, but otherwise things have been good for me.
I tend to agree. It's decent for the price. If you want more and better, then you will probably have to pay for it.
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They have still been having issues since this thread was created. I have been using php 5.4 since they sent the email saying we needed to change, and all has been working well. I started having problems. Went to cpanel and my php had been changed back to 5.2. As soon as i changed back to 5.4, it was working again. I still have some issues because of multiple reverts back to 5.2 over a couple of days, but seriously thinking of changing hosts. Its too bad because i have always recommended them based on their past good performance. This past year, not so much.
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It's not a savings if your site isn't working, it's down, or you need to spend time after time, fixing things that change or break. Is $4 a month (maybe?) worth the aggravation?
I've been with BlueHost for a few years (prior to Symbiostock) and although they're not perfect, they're not bad, at least for the shared hosting. I have no experience of any higher end stuff from them.
They did have that long ish outage last year and they did change PHP versions once without notifying users, but otherwise things have been good for me.
I tend to agree. It's decent for the price. If you want more and better, then you will probably have to pay for it.
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I'm ok with paying a little more, but the next choice seems to be to a VPS server (on any hosting site, not just bluehost) and that runs around $30 a mo. From $6 to $30/mo is quite a jump. Wish there was something in the middle.
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That would get my attention too! I'll mention this, no referrals, no spam. http://www.Gate.com (http://www.Gate.com) take a look. I pay about $99 a year for hosting.
A friend of mine hosts his sites on Powweb.com and says it's inexpensive and works well. I don't know how many others are in the $99 a year (or $9 a month, discount for annual payment) but $30 a month sounds very high in this competitive market?
Hope that was helpful in some way. I'm on gate.com Business plan. Have four sites hosted on the same account. The add-ons cost almost nothing, except the domain name. Same server space and a small annual fee. But they appear as a distinct website and nothing shows they are running off the same master hosting plan.
I'm ok with paying a little more, but the next choice seems to be to a VPS server (on any hosting site, not just bluehost) and that runs around $30 a mo. From $6 to $30/mo is quite a jump. Wish there was something in the middle.
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That would get my attention too! I'll mention this, no referrals, no spam. [url]http://www.Gate.com[/url] ([url]http://www.Gate.com[/url]) take a look. I pay about $99 a year for hosting.
A friend of mine hosts his sites on Powweb.com and says it's inexpensive and works well. I don't know how many others are in the $99 a year (or $9 a month, discount for annual payment) but $30 a month sounds very high in this competitive market?
Hope that was helpful in some way. I'm on gate.com Business plan. Have four sites hosted on the same account. The add-ons cost almost nothing, except the domain name. Same server space and a small annual fee. But they appear as a distinct website and nothing shows they are running off the same master hosting plan.
I'm ok with paying a little more, but the next choice seems to be to a VPS server (on any hosting site, not just bluehost) and that runs around $30 a mo. From $6 to $30/mo is quite a jump. Wish there was something in the middle.
I will check that out, Pete. Thanks. I browsed through a few threads here and just started checking some out.
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Anyone ever used Media Temple? They've been around for a long time, probably 10-15 years as far as I can remember. And they're supposed to be really solid and reliable. Plans start at $20 per month, which isn't cheap but isn't crazy expensive, either.
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Symbiostock com and org are down as well
It might be a good idea to put each of these two sites on different servers in case it happens again.