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Goodbye, Symbiostock
cascoly:
--- Quote from: leaf on January 08, 2016, 15:17 ---I was using bluehost once as well until they one day simply decided to shut the lights off because the site was using too many resources. Fine that they have limits but just shutting things down without notice doesn't seem very professional to me.
I ended up going with siteground
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again, justhost shut down my sites and sent an email with no prior warning; but they were just as fast to give excellent advice and I had my sites online the same day
as webmasters we need to play well with others on shared hosting systems -- the problem is partly that most users aren't aware that wp db are slowly degrading performance -- it may take a year or more for these problems to show up
cathyslife:
--- Quote from: Shelma1 on January 08, 2016, 14:34 ---Well, the inevitable has finally happened: Bluehost has shut down my Symbiostock website for performance issues. And they also shut down my personal portfolio site as well, since it was hosted under the same account. So now at the very least I need to find a new host and rebuild my personal website, since I need that for my real career.
Any suggestions for a portfolio site?
What a waste of time and money the whole enterprise was for me. Sad.
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I just found a simple wordpress portfolio theme and use that, hosted on JustHost. I built it a couple of years ago and have only had trouble with it once. One day a client told me all the images of my work on my site were missing. I googled it, others had the same issues, found the solution and fixed it. Something in code, not even sure how it got messed up, maybe one of the wp updates. Other than that, all has been good.
Symbiostock Official:
Just so there's no confusion, this relates to the old platform and has nothing to do with the current Symbiostock plugin.
Jo Ann Snover:
I use BlueHost too - I have two other WordPress installations on the site as well as my Symbiostock site.
I've never done anything with the database but looking at cascoly's post thought I should perhaps start :)
BlueHost has myPhpAdmin in the cpanel tools and their instructions on Repair/Optimize are exactly the same as Justhost's. I have no idea if that made anything better, but all three installations are working fine (it said to back up first, but I didn't).
If it's as simple as getting BlueHost to turn your site back on if you promise to run these utilities, it took less than 5 minutes once I figured out where things were. You may be OK to keep going for a while longer with just some trivial maintenance
cascoly:
--- Quote from: Robin@Symbiostock on January 08, 2016, 16:36 ---Just so there's no confusion, this relates to the old platform and has nothing to do with the current Symbiostock plugin.
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just so there's no confusion - the problem is with how WP handles tables - particularly post-meta -- have you made changes that address these problems? if so, that would be a reason to look at the new sym for those with many images
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