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Money is not much a problem, it is rather time & knowledge: I can't run a dedicated server myself. That's why I use shared hosting, as I do not have to handle the maintenance and configuration of the server.
I wanted to switch to Swiss hosting "Infomaniak" but imcdb may have some legal issue with Swiss laws. I should find a good host in USA, with the "fair use" law it would probably be OK.
It is not possible that this server does not work: they have so many clients, it must be possible to get that working.
And anyway even if I wanted to move right now, I can't, except losing this week's changes: the database server has to be accessible if I want to get the data
Of course if once it is working again it fails once a day like what it was doing at the beginning of the week, it would be time to think to move the site elsewhere... (though that it is annoying to move just after having paid, but the most important is having a working site).
Wickey (or someone else), here are the current tech infos of the site:
Currently the site uses about 10 GB of disk space for pictures (current limit = 250 GB). Nothing special is needed, I think, just the usual Apache web server for url-rewrite, and PHP and GD module enabled for handling images resizing.
The database size is currently 200 MB (limit was 250 MB until December, then 1000 when I first moved the database, and with current server it should not be limited... and it should be working). It requires mysql 5 or higher.
Traffic is above 300 GB/month now (current limit = 2000 GB).
Hosting costs 10 € / month for the site itself + 10 € / month for the database (VAT excluded).
After having tried to contact the support by e-mail and forum, I created a "ticket" on their site (as "critical", yesterday evening, with a max-12h-reply delay as they say), it just passed from "new" to "waiting"... so maybe they'll reply still today? I hope.
I wanted to switch to Swiss hosting "Infomaniak" but imcdb may have some legal issue with Swiss laws. I should find a good host in USA, with the "fair use" law it would probably be OK.
It is not possible that this server does not work: they have so many clients, it must be possible to get that working.
And anyway even if I wanted to move right now, I can't, except losing this week's changes: the database server has to be accessible if I want to get the data
Of course if once it is working again it fails once a day like what it was doing at the beginning of the week, it would be time to think to move the site elsewhere... (though that it is annoying to move just after having paid, but the most important is having a working site).
Wickey (or someone else), here are the current tech infos of the site:
Currently the site uses about 10 GB of disk space for pictures (current limit = 250 GB). Nothing special is needed, I think, just the usual Apache web server for url-rewrite, and PHP and GD module enabled for handling images resizing.
The database size is currently 200 MB (limit was 250 MB until December, then 1000 when I first moved the database, and with current server it should not be limited... and it should be working). It requires mysql 5 or higher.
Traffic is above 300 GB/month now (current limit = 2000 GB).
Hosting costs 10 € / month for the site itself + 10 € / month for the database (VAT excluded).
After having tried to contact the support by e-mail and forum, I created a "ticket" on their site (as "critical", yesterday evening, with a max-12h-reply delay as they say), it just passed from "new" to "waiting"... so maybe they'll reply still today? I hope.