ASO alternative
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@Ambarishrh said in ASO alternative:
I am not very happy with ASO, my site goes down every month at least 10-15 times with no reason! The support team always says, yes they had some minor downtime, but when it happens every month, that is unacceptable.
Was checking if its just me who has issues with ASO and found this! https://twitter.com/a_small_lemon
I am now looking for another hosting provider, who gives cPanel access, auto installer like softaculous and an added value would be supporting lets encrypt by default, with a monthly price range of $10. Its just my blog and some test sites.
Hard to find a good one. I guess Germany is too far away for you (latency etc)?
I've found a very good one here with loads of features like
- shell access including cron and tar/gzip etc
- no cPanel but admin panel
- access to php.ini and Apache configs
- very good spam and AV-filters for emails
- built-in let's encrypt support with auto renewal and 4096bit keys
- traffic flat
- a bunch of fast disk space (something cached or an SSD maybe)
- guaranteed CPU time and RAM
- and much more
They are using nginx as a reverse proxy. I guess I'm on a container or a small VM maybe, but couldn't figure that out yet. webhostone.de is a very small company with roughly 30.000 customers where you can still talk to a real human in case of a problem.
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Thanks @thwr but not sure if this will help me. First of all i dont speak german and not sure if that site has a translated version
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No, it doesn't. Don't know where you are located, could have been an option if you´re in the UK for example.
When choosing a hosted package for a blog, keep an eye on database restrictions like reduced table size.
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I am from the United Arab Emirates, Dubai. Was previously on hostgator and moved to ASO. Still checking on all possible options.
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@Ambarishrh said in ASO alternative:
I am not very happy with ASO, my site goes down every month at least 10-15 times with no reason! The support team always says, yes they had some minor downtime, but when it happens every month, that is unacceptable.
Our monitoring system says that we get downtime from time to time, but it is for seconds and we've never been able to observe it. It's so fast that we can't recreate it.
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@scottalanmiller said in ASO alternative:
@Ambarishrh said in ASO alternative:
I am not very happy with ASO, my site goes down every month at least 10-15 times with no reason! The support team always says, yes they had some minor downtime, but when it happens every month, that is unacceptable.
Our monitoring system says that we get downtime from time to time, but it is for seconds and we've never been able to observe it. It's so fast that we can't recreate it.
Could be a cleanup process in the webserver, like killing no more used forked threads. Have seen that before. Any type of clustering or load balancing involved, aside from CloudFlare?
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@scottalanmiller said in ASO alternative:
@Ambarishrh said in ASO alternative:
I am not very happy with ASO, my site goes down every month at least 10-15 times with no reason! The support team always says, yes they had some minor downtime, but when it happens every month, that is unacceptable.
Our monitoring system says that we get downtime from time to time, but it is for seconds and we've never been able to observe it. It's so fast that we can't recreate it.
Mine ranges from 2 minutes to 15 minutes and from Jan i have around 40 outages!
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@Ambarishrh said in ASO alternative:
@scottalanmiller said in ASO alternative:
@Ambarishrh said in ASO alternative:
I am not very happy with ASO, my site goes down every month at least 10-15 times with no reason! The support team always says, yes they had some minor downtime, but when it happens every month, that is unacceptable.
Our monitoring system says that we get downtime from time to time, but it is for seconds and we've never been able to observe it. It's so fast that we can't recreate it.
Mine ranges from 2 minutes to 15 minutes and from Jan i have around 40 outages!
Wow, we get nothing like that. What tool are you checking it with?
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@Ambarishrh said in ASO alternative:
@scottalanmiller said in ASO alternative:
@Ambarishrh said in ASO alternative:
I am not very happy with ASO, my site goes down every month at least 10-15 times with no reason! The support team always says, yes they had some minor downtime, but when it happens every month, that is unacceptable.
Our monitoring system says that we get downtime from time to time, but it is for seconds and we've never been able to observe it. It's so fast that we can't recreate it.
Mine ranges from 2 minutes to 15 minutes and from Jan i have around 40 outages!
That's hard. Most hosters will guarantee something like 99% uptime. What about ASO?
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@thwr said in ASO alternative:
@Ambarishrh said in ASO alternative:
@scottalanmiller said in ASO alternative:
@Ambarishrh said in ASO alternative:
I am not very happy with ASO, my site goes down every month at least 10-15 times with no reason! The support team always says, yes they had some minor downtime, but when it happens every month, that is unacceptable.
Our monitoring system says that we get downtime from time to time, but it is for seconds and we've never been able to observe it. It's so fast that we can't recreate it.
Mine ranges from 2 minutes to 15 minutes and from Jan i have around 40 outages!
That's hard. Most hosters will guarantee something like 99% uptime. What about ASO?
What we see is way, way above 99% uptime. Likely @Ambarishrh is, too. 99% isn't as high as people think that it is. 1% downtime is a lot of monthly downtime. That's as much outage per hour as we see in a month or two.
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@scottalanmiller I have pingdom which recently cancelled & google script
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Cloudways is awesome!
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@Ambarishrh said in ASO alternative:
@scottalanmiller I have pingdom which recently cancelled & google script
How granular does it test? Like if it hits a momentary outage, how soon until it checks back again? We use Alertra and it shows outages in terms of seconds.
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@aaronstuder said in ASO alternative:
Cloudways is awesome!
They offer web hosting? I thought that they just did VPS.
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@scottalanmiller it's a hybrid. http://www.cloudways.com/en/
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@aaronstuder said in ASO alternative:
@scottalanmiller it's a hybrid. http://www.cloudways.com/en/
Oh interesting, that is really neat. I guess I've not looked into that one before. It's more of an automation framework for other platforms.
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I am running all my sites off of AWS S3 buckets and with global CloudFront enabled for less than $1,00/mo. Even have a few basic eCommerce type sites running on this using stripe and a free heroku dyno for payments. you can always run an ec2 instance if you needed the server.
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Currently using the 14 days trial of Cloudways and now in the process of migrating my WP site to the new server. Just started with the $5 DO server, will update here about the results!
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Site is live on the temp url now http://wordpress-23999-51657-135429.cloudwaysapps.com/
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@Ambarishrh said in ASO alternative:
Site is live on the temp url now http://wordpress-23999-51657-135429.cloudwaysapps.com/
Can see the default WP theme and a single post. Hope that helps
