I’ve hosted several sites on a Site5 package for well over a year.* The package I originally got was pretty reasonable for the money.* The next year, I got a much better deal - all sorts of unlimited stuff! - for less money.* I knew that wasn’t a good sign.
During all this time, there were a lot of months they fell short of their 99.9% uptime guarantee.* But only by a percent or two, and it was better than other hosts I’d had, so I was content to leave the sites there for the time being.* On a lot of mornings, the site would load very slowly or not at all for 30 minutes or an hour.* Still, it was acceptable for those sites at that time.
This weekend, something unacceptable for any site happened.* My sites went down for 36 hours as Site5 replaced bad disks on the server, then restored everything while making upgrades.* There was no discussion of maybe moving the sites to another server or something during this time so they could stay up.* My guess is that Site5 has its servers crammed to the limit already.
In any case, I’m now looking at Pair and Fluidhosting, both of which appear to have true 99.98+% uptime.* If you have any other suggestions, let me know.* But one of the sites in question is Project B-2 Bomber, which is now getting in excess of 10k visitors per month, and it’s an active community.* I don’t want downtime throwing it off like that again.
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