Memset to Blue Host
Yesterday I moved lessharma.com to a web hosting company in the US (sorry for any downtime caused). The reason is that I have an excellent VPS (virtual private server) with a great UK host called Memset, all our ecommerce sites run off our VPS. But lately the server load and RAM usage has been high, down to our ecommerce sites becoming more and more busier and my personal site with it’s blog, forum, video and photos running.
I like the ecommerce sites running on UK data centres, because I want them in UK only searches on Google and other search engines. Plus most of our customers are in England and Eupore so UK data centres mean faster ping times for our sites.
So instead of increasing my RAM with Memset I decided to move lessharma.com to a US host. Why a US host, two reasons, lessharma.com doesn’t need a UK data centre to run on and secondly and most important you can’t beat the deals / support on hosting in the US. It puts hosting in the UK to shame, tons of web space (300 GIGS), tons of bandwidth per month (3,000 GIGS), load of features, fast servers and great support! All for just $6.95 per month.
So I spent allot of time yesterday reading reviews on US hosting before choosing Blue Host, good reviews on support and server speed, plus a Wordpress recommended hosting company. So far so good!
It took a bit of time today to get my PHP BB forum working again and my Wordpress blog, because after doing a Cpanel backup of lessharma.com and uploading and un-packing it onto Blue Host servers the MySQL databases didn’t come back OK. So I had to copy over the forum / blog databases and import them onto my new hosting account. Anyway all working fine now.
