Update 7/7/09: As many of you know, I have been a champion of 000webhost for a while now and have hosted all of my sites through them as of late. Well, this changed a couple of days ago.
I put an e-mail contact form on one of my sites but didn’t put up Captcha on it. A spam bot got a hold of it and submitted like 100 emails through it. This made it look like my site was being used to send out spam e-mail, so my account was suspended.
“That’s reasonable” I thought, so I put in a help ticket to have it restored, I explained what happened, apologized, and wrote what I promised to do to ensure it didn’t happen again.
I logged in the next day to find my account had been deleted. I lost everything. Luckily I have weekly database backups e-mailed to me and I had all of my files on my computer.
So use at your own risk I guess, make sure you have backups of everything. They are hosting you for free and don’t OWE you anything, so if you break the rules (even accidentally like I did) your shit is probably going to get the axe.
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As some of you may know, MoxieLifestyle.net has never exactly been the fastest site around.
I’ve tried to fix this with no success.
After some quick Googling it looks like GoDaddy just seems to have a well known issue with WordPress that makes it unbearably slow. So, I decided to bite the bullet and move to a faster host.
Previously, when I would ping MoxieLifestyle (on GoDaddy), my ping would be around 200-300ms.
Now on my new host, it is about 80ms, which is normal.
Who Is My New Host?
My new host is, 0.00 Webhost and their service is absolutely AWESOME. If you own your own domain, they will host your site for FREE! Plus you get 1,500 mb of space and 100,000 gb of data transfer a month. These are extremely high limits compared to a lot of other free hosts.
Unless you are running a REALLY popular site (with lots of media) you will probably never touch the data transfer. If you do need more however, you can upgrade and get pretty much unlimited everything for less than $5 a month.
Why Is It Better?
The problem with GoDaddy shared hosting is that you are sharing a single server with THOUSANDS of other people.
Previously, MoxieLifestyle.net was sharing a server with 2127 other people according to YouGetSignal. Now I am the only person on my server. I don’t know if this is a unique case, or the number isn’t right because I am still propagating (moving servers) in some areas. But, my friend hosts his website on 000Webhost as well, CHImprovements.com, and it only shares its server with 54 other people.
My only complaint is that my FTP Client (Cyberduck) seems to be a little wonky. It seems slower than before and sometimes I get disconnected. I contacted 000webhost and they said since I just moved my site it might be having issues, but that after 48 hours or so it should clear up.
The Future of MoxieLifestyle.net
Things are looking up for MoxieLifestyle.net. New faster server, new databases should be quicker, and upgrading PHP5 should make everything just a little quicker as well.
Let’s not forget about the whole new part of the site I have coming soon. The server move definitely will delay the launch a bit but I think it will be worth it.
May 16th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Sick find man, glad you found it in time for the new site!
-Anthony