Our current hosting account is suffering from lots of problems mainly due to the limitation in resources usage and due to the high traffic that the website is generating. The solution is certainly to move to a dedicated hosting, even that current budgent don’t allow it. The current hosting account cost around $300 per year, but used to host all my website, and the current new alternative began from $1307.88 per year, but in the same time include a 160GB hard drive 1200GB bandwidth per month P4 3.0 Ghz w/ HT 1024MB RAM, and the most important a 100 Mbps port and freedom in resources usage.
Two days ago, my current hosting provider launched an advertising campaign on PHPMagazine.Net via AdBrite, and you’ll probably notice their Interstitial on the network if you visited it. I just enable it to test it as an alternative source of revenue, I’ll try to monitor the revenue from this campaign otherwise I’ll disable it. Anyway it still not enough to cover our hosting fees.
Update : I discovered in the last minutes that (vrtservers.net) the company behind the $1307.88 offer is not recommanded at all, now seriously first offer began from $1527 per year 
The other issue is related to spam, our rewrite rules in .htaccess were interfering with the deny list which makes all the IPs banned can still access the website, and today I was surprised when I saw the bandwidth exceeds the 60GB while its just 17 October !! Anyway the solution was to keep the deny list only in htaccess and now I have just test it, everybody are banned !! Cool !!
I think that’s all until now with the server, if everything goes okay we’ll be probably moving to the new server today or tomorrow, of course the website will stay working without interruption, I hope ! It will be only the difference between dns update that might cause troubles because moving a 1Gig website isn’t that fast even with a satellite connection. I’ll keep you updated as soon as something will change.
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