Moving to a Dedicated Server. Here we Come!

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Saad Hamid on April 13, 2008

In the past couple of weeks, BlueHost has given Sizlopedia the worst time of its entire life. With almost over 4-5 hours of downtime every day, it had become impossible for Sizlopedia to survive on BlueHost shared box.

Last month we had a serious debate on whether BlueHost is Going Down on Quality? and surprisingly most of the readers agreed. Perhaps its also because of the continously growing traffic on Sizlopedia.

However I finally decided to get a dedicated server. Ross of SimpleHelp was kind enough to guide me in choosing a good dedicated hosting provider and I ended up buying a server from ThePlanet.

Even though its an unmanaged server, ThePlanet support guided me all the way in setting up my new server. I have cPanel/WHM plus I have much command over SSH (Thanks to Ubuntu terminal) so handling things is a smooth job.

I have already transfered Picsopedia to the server and its showing some good response. In the next couple of hours I will be completely moving Sizlopedia to the new server so the site may seem down for some of the readers.

Once the DNS has propagated, you will again be able to visit the site with much faster speed and efficiency. Don't forget to give me your feedback on this.

Update: The transfer was successful all thanks to my 4 Backup transfer techniques. However I did lose some comments which was a result of the slow DNS resolution. I apologize to the readers who commented on this post but their comments were lost during the transfer.

http://www.mymytech.com sJ_Dan

Awesome man, nice to see that you’re getting too much traffics unlike me, haha
http://blog.dylx-infotech.com Random View

Downtime for a blog or website is worst nightmare…last few days even i felt sizlopedia is opening very slow but then thought it maybe my net connecting issue. But when today i saw “Error Connecting to database” at Sizlopedia i was like some thing is wrong with Sizlopedia.

Anyway nice to hear you have moved to dedicated server but that downtime thingy making me sad…

Kudos to Sizlopedia Team!
http://www.clazh.com Arpit Jacob

Hey dude how much are you paying. Its kinda hard to run a Unmanaged server. Unless you have the time to monitor it 24X7 . Anyways all the best I brought DV on MT it sucks big time support is pathetic. looking to move again
http://www.techlivez.com Shashank

So how much you are paying for a dedi box…also hows unmanaged differ from the managed one…and also tell me if the unmanaged one is cheaper.
http://techocrunch.com Pranjal

@Shashank, unmanaged server is like you have to do everything from the janitor to boss level work (monitoring, compiling apache modules, setting up servers, dns, ftp almost everything). On the other hand managed servers have support staff that helps you with almost everything, but it depends on the hosting every hosting has a different stance regarding it.
http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

@Random View

Thanks for your kind words!

@Arpit

Its actually damn hard to run a managed server but ThePlanet.com has great support so they are always there to resolve most of your issues. You can also buy a server and try

http://platinumservermanagement.com/

They offer server management services for a per month fee (I am planning to try them out from next month)

@Shashank

Unmanaged dedicated server is of course hard to take care of. Its just like you own a machine in another country compared to you have a machine in your home.

Unmanaged is of course cheaper by $40-$50
http://www.tothepc.com Davinder

Hey cool, theplanet support and server is awesome. Even I moved my other blog (not tothepc) to theplanet.

Till now its been great. Though starting off was bit confusing, never handled so many setting up stuff. I guess, learnt few commands and process

In BTW, Sizlo is opening with sizzling speed
http://www.technobuzz.net Raj

Yes theplanet is the Best.

Last month i also moved some of My Entertainment Blogs from Bluehost to Theplanet.
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http://www.techmixer.com km

How much you paying for the dedicated server ?

currently i also looking a linux dedicated server for my site ?
http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

I paid $130 for my dedicated server last month but now as I have moved to SliceHost VPS so its much cheaper and easy to handle.
Sanso

I used to have a windows server with the planet long ago, but they started to drop the ball. Now I am with Server Intellect for under 200$. Yes I know you can find servers that are Linux for under 50$ but I wanted support and managed services. I do not want to spend my weekends fixing and updating my server when I can be enjoying life. If you are looking for a good managed Dedicated Windows Server I would suggest Server Intellect.