PMC websites from shared hosting to Virtual Private Server

[Snake Man]

Yesterday was the big move, we moved PMC websites from shared hosting to Virtual Private Server (VPS).

Our shared web hosting was really bad, we ran out of memory and "entry processes" quite often and then our sites gave "Internal Server Error" or were just really slow. I experienced this many times over the past year myself.

I was so embarrassed when linking our PMC Editing Wiki tutorials to someone and then they tell me the website is down

But now I've been assured the this VPS where I chose to run Linux Ubuntu 16.04 configured by myself (yikes) has enough CPU, RAM and software capabilities to run all our websites.

Got to admit, this is the real way to run websites; in a linux shell and not in some lame shared thing where you only got stupid cPanel access

Obviously VPS is almost three times more expensive than shared hosting, but hey you gotta do whatever it takes to keep sites running like a pro. We get no donations from users so I'm saving (especially now with this more expensive VPS) throughout the year to pay the internet bills. But I guess if you think about it how much our sites are used, even by myself... the daily not to mention hourly cost is still quite low.

Anyways. New linux ubuntu VPS is rocking and lets hope everything runs smoothly over the next year before we need to renew this VPS the first time.

[Snake Man]

Our VPS hosting was down for over two days straight

This was some technical issue at the web hosting company, as soon as I noticed PMC websites being down and SSH connection lost to the Linux server I contacted support on 2022-08-17. Back and forth extremely slow emails and now finally today 2022-08-19 I see no new emails but websites are working again.

To my best memory, in all our web server running history starting from 1998 I have never experienced full two day downtime

If this ever happens again with this web hosting company, its time to start searching for a new one.

[Snake Man]

Received email today from web hosting company, the current VPS deal I have is no longer being sold, the "product" is not sold for new customers but old existing customers are able to keep using it, however the monthly feels increase relatively speaking a lot as its old product this hosting company has to maintain to keep old customers happy.

I'm thinking now that the NEW product they are selling, VPS with 400gb SSD, is actually slightly cheaper than this old one would be at the time my yearly payments run out in october 2024, so I most likely will "upgrade" into that, at the same time I could switch from Ubuntu to Debian 12 operating system as well, which would further allow me to run more secure, stable and up to date forum / dokuwiki etc website softwares.

If anyone wants to donate money for PMC website hosting fees that would be greatly appreciated as it would really help me to keep all our websites online.

Here is PMC website hosting donation link.

Thank you.