Hosting Sorted

Man, that was a bit of a mission... For the last few weeks I have been getting random script timeouts on various parts of my site. There's nothing I can do about that - the scripts haven't changed so someone on the same box must have been abusing the server resources. Unlike normal db errors I don't think there's any way to trap timeouts so people were being presented with those rubbish 'script has exceeded...' messages, making me look like an idjut. Yesterday I left Fasthosts and their rubbish servers to find a new virtual home. I've settled in dc-hosting for the time being. They offer a wide range of packages, they're quite cheap and their control panel is comprehensive.

This was my first time changing hosts since launching my site so the process was a little confusing. I wasn't expecting the switch to be instant for my mail account and I didn't think to set up a 'catch-all' address straight away so I've lost last night's email. DC's support has been great thus far, with super-quick responses to questions, so I now have everything sorted.

An additional benefit is that they've got PHP/MySQL installed by default on their Windows boxes so my planned migration to PHP won't necessarily require me to change hosts, monkey with DNS records, and risk downtime and lost email.

The site's back up and running and that's the most important thing. So far so good...

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