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Blog Downtime and Server Transfer

Sun, Mar 30, 2008

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Server Downtime

AlthafAhmed.com is 11 days old for today. I had hosted with Doreo.com all these days. I have actually been with them for the past 5 months and they have never let me down. My blogs were always up 100% of the time. The problem arose in the last 3 days when this blog received a good surge of traffic. So far, in the 72 hours, the blog has received about 41,000 visitors. Doreo cannot handle it.

I realized the urgency of the matter 12 hours back when I noticed the continuing surge of visitors. I did not want to take a chance. I knew it was time to move. So, this morning I moved the blog to Hostgator. The process took about an hour to complete. I lost about 1200 visitors according to Wordpress Blog Stats which was monitoring the incoming traffic all the time. Not a biggie.

Hostgator has assured me that they can handle up to 15k visitors per day comfortably. Their assurance backed up by their 45 days guarantee plus a direct access to the C.E.O Brent made me happy. So far So Good.

So What?

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Althaf Ahmed - who has written 18 posts on Weird Ramblings.


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2 Comments For This Post

  1. Rick Blase Says:

    Al: Had no idea the traffic count was running so high. Congratulations. The new blog and design rocks………..

  2. Althaf Ahmed Says:

    Yeah, that’s been the scenario so far. Thanks for the compliments.

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