Grizzy
Senior Member
- Nov 11, 2008
- 920
- 1,005
Fair enough. Sorry for over-reacting. I was just upset with my host because I had been anticipating this and watching the CPU usage for it and I was thinking everything was fine. You said I wasn't ready for Primetime, and you are right, but I think it's my hosts fault. There was NO indication from the CPU usage graphs OR their support team that this was coming up. Then they send me an email and turn it off right before I had to leave
It has just been a rough weekend and it was a terrible time for that to happen. But you are right, I can't just blame the host (although I am still upset with them).
Cloud hosting, huh? What provider do you use.
All good man. And I'm sorry if I came off to harsh, I'm trying to work on that.
And yea.. I totally understand your frustration with some of these web hosting companies. They like to promise the moon for peanuts but once you are a customer they often forget about you. I once had a HUGE bandwidth overage fee billed to my cc when I was supposed to receive notification emails long before it became the disaster it was. Needless to say I was furious (even though I was partly responsible for not keeping an eye on it). All the more reason to move to a platform where you have 100% control I say.
I loves me some Amazon AWS. There is a bit of a curve but good documentation and learning it is really a lot of fun. I know of a few networks that are deployed on ec2 instances so it seems to be a good fit. Once I even slammed one of them with 250k online for half a day and they still performed like a well oiled machine
But hey if you want to keep things rolling you might want to just go with something quick and easy like hostwinds. You seem to have a good thing going and right now your time might be better spent finding quality offers, promoting your site, etc... rather then spending too much time figuring out the ins and outs of a self managed cloud provider. Keep in mind it is self managed, so they basically offer you zero support and you have to be able to do everything yourself. From installing the nessecary software to optimizing your web server / databases to making sure everything is secure... It's all on you, but damn is it satisfying knowing that you built your app from the ground up, are familiar with every part of the stack like it's the back of your hand, and can quickly and cheaply overcome any problem that might arise.