Moving servers yet again! | 2 Comments
Posted in Muffin Research Labs on 25th March 2006, 9:25 pm by Stuart
Just recently the server that this site is hosted on has been a bit odd. After a couple of complete crashes and a day’s downtime, I spent Thursday evening tidying up any problem areas that I could find, and then on Friday it dawned. The top command had been showing around 190MB of total memory available, which seemed to be a bit low and then when the specs where checked the server should have 512MB installed! By the looks of it half the memory has died. Where the other 64MB has gone is anyone’s guess but if it’s been syphoned off for graphics card usage then this is a bit rubbish for a dedicated server (we have no use for graphics running!) unless that’s some kind of hardware enforced situation.
Granted, hardware does fail from time to time but the apathetic support from Amenworld has been appalling. Hence I am voting with my feet and moving over to Dreamhost. Dreamhost are very friendly in every way and any questions you ask are always answered within a few hours, not to mention that they have 24 hour support in contrast to Amenworld’s weekday working hours policy.
Once again I have set everything up to be a smooth as possible during the transition to the new server. If you are reading this then you’ve made it! If you notice anything odd please do get in touch via the contact form.
