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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Bluehost.com and new hosting

by becheeryComments OffFebruary 16th, 2011

I don’t have many bad words about Bluehost where my websites were hosted after m6. They were mostly reliable and their tech support is great.

The only thing that bothered me, aside occasional unavailability of my websites (which were still running 99% of the time), is the problem with processor time. Although I optimized the websites manually and didn’t employ any plug-in to run heavy cron jobs on the server, I still had continuous warnings about my processor usage. After I contacted their very responsive tech support they said that  I don’t have to worry and my websites aren’t using their resources too much. However, from time to time I had a “friendly” neighbor or two which shared my hosting machine, and they’ve managed to make it pretty slow and unresponsive from time to time.

Unfortunately, due to larger processor usage, Bluehost doesn’t directly support compression and it is activated with some sort of script which calculates the need to turn it on. Alternatives are compressing through PHP or usage of Zlib compression and FastCGI instead usual PHP serving (which employs processor much more). I gave up serving compressed pages and used manual compression of static files which are served compressed if available (it will be explained in one of my future optimization posts).

In meantime,  my main website grew and it got much more traffic, aside its size. After a lot more optimization and bending rules to optimize website loading without any plug-in, the website loading became much better and there were the “neighbors”. In comparison, WordPress website running on W3 Total Cache is just a tad faster, but a lot less responsive on the user/visitor side and it’s killing the random features website offers… unless you are logged in.

One day the website became unavailable for a whole hour…  I checked with tech support and they told there was a software update. Afterward, a hardware update occurred and it lasted for hour and a half, and you can guess that it was followed by another software update. Overall, the website was unavailable for 6 hours that day. At first it got a bit faster and within few days it was slower than ever. That made me search for a VPS where I have all the features and guaranteed resources I need. XooNom.com is hosted on that VPS and I’m still tweaking it because it is an un-managed server.

So far, the website is much faster than it used to be. I didn’t move the larger website yet because I’m playing with the parameters and features.


pilates.rs

by becheeryComments OffFebruary 15th, 2011

Although I’m not a big fan entire websites done in Flash, due to recommendation from a friend, I was asked to work on pilates.rs website.

The owner needed some changes regarding information, and after those changes I have done SEO and some website optimization.


Post after a long while…

by becheery0 Comment »January 16th, 2011

Instead of a redesign, I was working on back-ends of websites I maintain. There are noticeable improvements in website loading and behavior, and I’ll share my experiences regarding design and coding in future sporadic posts.

Stay tuned :)


Hosting rant and a website redesign

by becheery0 Comment »March 27th, 2010

For many years I hosted this site at a company m6.net. Last year I switched to bluehost because m6 offers Windows server hosting without any support for functions I needed in order to run some of the CMS available these days.

I kept a few of my sites that didn’t need CMS on m6 servers, but from time to time the sites went down. If you asked their tech support to update some of the very outdated cPanel features they would either answer with some totally unrelated “copy/paste” answer or didn’t reply at all (while marking the issue resolved). Not to mention other problems with dozen of replies without action or decent help (with a few people excluded, some were professional and accurate).

Their server is down for more than a day so I was forced to change the hosting of some sites. At least it gave a push for the daameer.com website redesign which will be started in April. Hope you’ll like new design and features.


Tags: hosting, rant, redesign, webdesign

New website layout and purpoise

by becheery0 Comment »February 16th, 2010

XooNom.com exists since 2005 and it changed the layout and purpose through time. This is the 5th layout of the website which still needs tweaking, but I hope you like the general idea :)

The site will be a combination of a personal blog, portfolio and photo-gallery.


RobAid.com

by becheery0 Comment »April 23rd, 2009

We’re currently working on redesign of a tech related website robaid.com.  :)

The rest of the site content will come when we finish all the features and design.


Logo/logotype design

by becheery0 Comment »December 29th, 2008

We designed new logo/logotype for the zabavljaj.me website.


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