Moved to a new host – dry run – please provide feedback.

Ashraf March 1, 2009 13

Hello all.

I just moved PoliticallyMotivated.net to a new host. I had to shell out more cash for this host so please provide me feedback on if this is faster or not.

Also, please tell me if you find any broken links or images or posts, etc.

Thanks!

Ashraf

P.S. You can always help lessen the load of hosting by donating =). Even a dollar helps – everything is appreciated! No I am not shy to ask for money.

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David Roper March 1, 2009 at 4:53 PM (comment permalink) -

Under home/Archive/freebies there are comments which light up blue when passed over but only two or three lines of the comments are visible. Can you make it so that pressing ENTER when it’s lighted blue will allow me to read the whole comment? Dunno if that’s worth it or if possible. Just dreaming.

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Gary March 1, 2009 at 5:02 PM (comment permalink) -

Let me know if you are happy with this new hosting service. If not, contact me. I have my own servers and love what you do and would be proud to help out.

Gary

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Ashraf March 1, 2009 at 5:25 PM (comment permalink) -

David,
I am afraid I have no idea what you are talking about.

Gary,
I am intrigued. Can you send me more info at admin at politicallymotivated.net.

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Jean-Luc Picard March 1, 2009 at 6:48 PM (comment permalink) -

@ashraf:
You’re down to 8 seconds load time for a site with only a few pics and a bit of HTML.

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Ashraf March 1, 2009 at 7:12 PM (comment permalink) -

Are you joking or are you serious? This is blazing fast.

Jean, do me a favor. Go to start menu -> start. Type in cmd and type in ping politicallymotivated.net. Tell me what your min, max and average pings are.

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Jean-Luc Picard March 1, 2009 at 7:39 PM (comment permalink) -

PoliticallyMotivated.net:
1. 108ms
2. 109ms
3. 108ms
4. 107ms

Compared to Cnet:
1. 73ms
2. 73ms
3. 72ms
4. 75ms

Compared to LifeHacker:
1. 124ms
2. 117ms
3. 119ms
4. 124ms

Compared to Google:
1. 29ms
2. 21ms
3. 49ms
4. 24ms

Compared to Gmail:
1. 23ms
2. 22ms
3. 25ms
4. 22ms

Compared to 192.168.2.1 (my router):
1. 1ms
2. 1ms
3. 1ms
4. 1ms

In conclusion:
1. Your host is OK.
2. WordPress 2.7 is ANNOYING.

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Neville March 1, 2009 at 8:13 PM (comment permalink) -

Much faster load time, down to about 12 seconds for me, from over 30 seconds before.

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Ashraf March 1, 2009 at 8:36 PM (comment permalink) -

Thanks for that Jean. This new host gives pretty good speeds for shared hosting. As a side note, I have another surprise up my sleeve that I will probably reveal tomorrow inshAllah.

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Jean-Luc Picard March 1, 2009 at 9:34 PM (comment permalink) -

Can’t wait.
On a side note, why am I getting logged out all the time?

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Jean-Luc Picard March 1, 2009 at 9:35 PM (comment permalink) -

And I was being serious….

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Brenda March 1, 2009 at 9:36 PM (comment permalink) -

Site opens straight away, not the wait with dial up has.

Brenda

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Ashraf March 1, 2009 at 9:57 PM (comment permalink) -

Jean,
If the problem is still there in 24 hours when the nameservers settle we can look into it.

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dan March 1, 2009 at 11:12 PM (comment permalink) -

Nice upgrade in speed — much quicker page loads.

Thanks Ashraf.

dan [drmagoo]

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