Today morning our Database servers went down which are hosted with Godaddy. The hosting provider ( Godaddy ) did not specify any reasons for this downtime and it took around 5hrs for their engineers to recover. We apologize for the inconvenience caused to our visitors. Some of you might not even sensed the outage of servers due to different timezones.
We are planning to shift servers from Godaddy to some better and consistent hosting provider. The plan to shift servers is pretty soon so that these sort of breakdowns can be avoided in the coming future.
Godaddy in return gave us nothing but a lame excuse called Sorry and were unable to give us a timeline as to when their engineers might be able to recover from the downtime. Anyhow we are Up & Running now. Thanks for your patience.
Thankful !!
Sachin Khosla
Glad that we are back.. unexpected outtages suck…
This is the Dilemma of Shared hosting. Its the same everywhere but there are few which are good and are reliable.
I’m currently using dreamhost which is so far good for me , from last 4 months I have seen 0 downtime . Kudos to this.
Another one I can recommend is Hostgator. Go for its baby plan . I have 3 more website hosted there without any issues and problem.
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Godaddy did not give me any trouble since last 1 month, but think this is kinda life process of a server.
Let’s see how it goes, but shifting hosts is not a good idea. So will try to stick to it for a while.
Thanks for your suggestion(s).
As Harsh has rightly put DreamHost is a very good choice when it comes to hosting plans. I had been using them for the past one year and my 6 other domains are being served upon by them, and I haven’t faced any downtime for the past few months.
I suggest using them blindly as they have got good speed to pull the system back if something happens. Godaddy, well you know how it is.
@Suneel I do have dreamhost plan as well. But certainly they do not have a very good support. And my websites faced few hitches when on dreamhost.
I think its matter of experience one has with the hosts. Every server faces downtime, it is just that how we track it.