Trash your rep as a webhost, lose your audience as a publisher
If your suspends your account for bandwidth overage you need to find a new provider.
Its hardly a unique occurance, but I ran into a link on Digg the other day that was resolving to a hostgator suspension page. What a terrible way to waste all those viewers over a couple of dollars.
Hell, what a terrible way for a host to send a message “stay away from us.” When I got slashdotted a few years back my host, who was just a reseller, had me slap a banner up the page, and that was that. It didn’t even cost me an extra penny.
Don’t know what your host would do if 100,000 uniques hit your site tommorow? Send them an e-mail and ask.
True but that is probably automated and it is really hard on a shared hosting account to keep the server up when a dynamic blog is getting hammered, you have to move it to a dedicated server very quickly if you want to keep it up. I’ve been slashdotted a few times in the past and i was on shared hosting then and one of my sites back then went down because it just couldn’t keep up.
Comment by bwb — February 16, 2007 @ 10:54 am
Get a dedicated server and stop wondering
Comment by ToddW — February 16, 2007 @ 7:51 pm
this is an ongoing theme this morning.
Whats up with that?
Comment by Joe Whyte — February 19, 2007 @ 12:32 pm