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Dear Hosting company,
I’ve decided I will be moving house once again. I am not literally moving our physical assets from one place to another but my virtual home.
Yes. It’s come to my attention that you ( web server) is no longer keeping your end of your bargain.
You said that you allow for a max of 50 domains to be hosted together on your account and 99.9% uptime. Now you tell me that my 2 domains are using too much bandwidth and resources? You are hitting me with constant (12)Cannot allocate memory: couldn’t create child process: and 500 internal server error and still blame it on my usage?
It’s your fault and the problem lies on your end not mine!! Ever since you did that server migration and added on so many new clients the resources you give me have been seriously limited. I feel super shortchanged and regretful that I have placed so must trust in you.
We are now into the 2nd year of our relationship and I going to have to breakup with you once the contract has ended. I thought that you were the one after having problems with Hostpapa and Lunarpages.
Two years on you have grown in size and has been bought over by a bigger company. No doubt you still give excellent customer service but the way that you are trying to force me to upgrade to a VPS for a personal blog is really out of line.
It’s time to pack up and ship off. I’m on the prowl for a local hosting company this time. I’m tired of all the unfulfilled promises made by the so-called big names in the business.
Regards,
Dominique
*this post is a response to Alpha-Thursday ( Letter V) and my entry for this week’s Writer’s workshop at Mama Kat’s.
15 comments
Karen and Gerard
March 10, 2011 at 7:59 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
At least we haven’t had that problem with good ’0 free Blogger!
Stopping by from Writer’s Workshop. Here’s ours:
http://zemeks.blogspot.com/2011/03/aliens-might-make-us-move-writers.html
Dominique
March 10, 2011 at 8:23 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Sometimes I really wonder if it would be better if I have just stuck with blogger or downgrade to a blogger account from now.
Elaine
March 10, 2011 at 10:24 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Moving, in real life and weblife is just a pain… so sorry you’re having to go there!
Lizz
March 11, 2011 at 12:19 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Ugh. I hate moving, even if it’s just transferring files! Hope your transition goes smoothly when your contract is up!
#WritersWorkshop @libismorgan
Sue
March 11, 2011 at 3:44 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Good for you. Send ‘em packing!
=)
PS. I’m pretty late for Alphabe-Thursday this week, so here’s my link:
Vistas
d, the undomestic housewife
March 11, 2011 at 4:06 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Nice take on this prompt. That would be so frustrating. I haven’t had any problems (yet) with wordpress… but stories like these are what keeps me from getting my own domain, haha.
Dominique
March 11, 2011 at 8:40 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
It is indeed frustrating.. I have blogs on both blogger and wordpress and (self hosted) wordpress..and there is indeed a lot of difference in capability between using wordpress and (self hosted) wordpress in terms of advertising and revenue and plugins which can be added to optimize/modify your site.
Jessica
March 11, 2011 at 5:52 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I expect absolute perfection from my hosting provider so if they ever let me down I will also be moving. I wish you luck with your new provider.
Donnie
March 11, 2011 at 1:52 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Moving virtually is a hassle. Hope the move goes smoothly for you.
maria@PersonalizedSketches
March 12, 2011 at 2:02 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Oh dear! hope your virtual blog move goes smoothly… Being that I am not tech or computer savvy, this all is above my head! I am thankful that so far, things have been great with the server (or community or whatever you call it) that I am with.
Blessings & Aloha!
Dominique
March 12, 2011 at 4:29 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
@Maria,
It has been some time since I did a move from one server to another.. I hope I remember how to do it.. I may give the blog a revamp with a new header if I get the time to do so..
Judie
March 13, 2011 at 2:46 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I hope you can find a place to settle that will live up to your expectations.
Cheryl D.
March 13, 2011 at 3:01 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Good luck on your “move!”
Jenny Matlock
March 13, 2011 at 11:45 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
It sounds like it’s time to make a move.
I don’t envy you doing it, though. I am forever wanting to migrate onto one of my husbands business web servers, but I hate to change everything.
Good luck!
And thanks for linking to Alphabe-Thursday’s letter “V”.
A+
Jingle
March 16, 2011 at 9:20 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
move on and try things new,
you deserve happiness.
smiles.
bless you,