February 24th, 2008 Why The Move?

A good friend asked me "Why are you moving servers, anyway?" earlier and I thought "Okay. Fair enough".

So let me sit down with you kiddies and explain.

I’m currently hosted with Cirtex Hosting. Although they’ve been generally a very good service and nice towards me, every hosting company has hiccups at one point or another. My personal experience with Cirtex (I’m on the Economy plan, $10/mo) has been pretty awesome.

There was one time where I dunno what happened exactly but everyone’s data was turned back to like a week earlier. Okay, I guess it happens?

But recently on the Lucky server where my friend Mitch (of the now-defunct enveere.org) something happened where the company rolled everyone back to October of 2007, without warning. I felt terrible for him and all the other people on the Lucky server.

Why didn’t they have a weekly backup or at least a monthly back up to restore from? Why didn’t they warn anyone on Lucky that they were going to do this? I’m sure there are many, many angry people (including poor Mitch) who are absolutely dying to leave because of this incident.

One reason for my move is because (although I do weekly backups, every Sunday on my computer) I don’t want to take the chance that something catastrophic like that happens with Edgy (server I’m on) and without warning.

You just don’t do that to people.

While looking for a future host for myself and poor Mitch I thought of my previous (and first) host, Surpass Hosting. I remember them having great service. The only reason I moved to Cirtex was because at the time I needed something with a lot more space and bandwidth.

A few years later, tadaa~ Surpass has way more space and bandwidth, for the same prices I originally paid to be with them. Their community Surmunity, is full of really helpful and fast-replying people who know what they’re doing, not to mention they’re funny.

And even better, there was a promotion going on, it’s called the One Love II promotion. You pay $1 USD for a whole year of their smallest shared hosting plan (which is still better than the current Cirtex plan I have now).

It’s not all about costs, but what a nice way to return to Surpass Hosting! When the year is up, I’ll move up to their Deluxe plan, which is $10 USD a month. Which is also what I pay Cirtex now.

So all in all I end up winning. Yay for hostees who will have more space, I’ll have more to offer them and I’ll be worry-free of disasters.

The promotion seems to be over now. Hopefully they’ll finally activate my account and I can get started with them.

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2 Peaches to “Why The Move?”

1. Mitchell Says:
   February 24th, 2008 at 6:56 pm

   So I finally checked into Surpass. I hadn’t really looked into it until now. I’m getting pretty excited!

   For $6/month, I can get WAY more than Cirtex ever gave me. That’s only a dollar more than I was paying Cirtex. Even my mom would go for that. I’ve been trying to coerce her into paying $20/month for MediaTemple, but she flat refused. So she’ll gladly pay $6. Maybe even $10 for the Deluxe plan. But I really don’t need all that … yet. But it’s always good to have, right?

   So I’ll ask about the Deluxe plan. If not, the Power plan will be just fine.

   Thanks for suggesting Surpass, I never would have found them if you hadn’t!

2. Hazel; Says:
   February 24th, 2008 at 8:08 pm

   I’m glad your moving to surpass. It sounds like a good deal. :)
   Yay for us!