Comments on: Site5.com hosting is poor http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/ Life with MINIs (and other cars!) Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:33:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Ian C. http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/comment-page-1/#comment-2723 Ian C. Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:36:09 +0000 http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/#comment-2723 I don't want to shout this in case it jeopardises things, but since this Site5 chaos, they've been working well ... who knows, maybe they fixed everything finally. Also, another MINI owner just switched from a (different) bad company - <a href="http://www.motorme.net/blog/?p=108" rel="nofollow">see here for more details</a> I don’t want to shout this in case it jeopardises things, but since this Site5 chaos, they’ve been working well … who knows, maybe they fixed everything finally.

Also, another MINI owner just switched from a (different) bad company – see here for more details

]]> By: Ian C. http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/comment-page-1/#comment-2722 Ian C. Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:16:50 +0000 http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/#comment-2722 Sorry Paul ;) I looked around today for hosting companies that use RAID (mirrored drives) and such reliability features - basically you pay $8-$15/month but get almost zero storage (1GB max), or pay $50/month ... so Site5 wins on the cost/features and we've got to hope they do improve. Interestingly, <a href="http://www.GoMotoring.com" rel="nofollow">GoMotoring</a> is also on Site5, but I use Marks site to confirm when mine is down (if it's gone from Marks RSS feeds, it's not just a problem local to me) ... and I've not seen Marks site down at any time! Apparently some Site5 servers are much more reliable than others. Sorry Paul ;)

I looked around today for hosting companies that use RAID (mirrored drives) and such reliability features – basically you pay $8-$15/month but get almost zero storage (1GB max), or pay $50/month … so Site5 wins on the cost/features and we’ve got to hope they do improve.

Interestingly, GoMotoring is also on Site5, but I use Marks site to confirm when mine is down (if it’s gone from Marks RSS feeds, it’s not just a problem local to me) … and I’ve not seen Marks site down at any time!
Apparently some Site5 servers are much more reliable than others.

]]> By: paul http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/comment-page-1/#comment-2721 paul Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:56:02 +0000 http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/#comment-2721 but I only went to site5 because all you guys did! I have to admit that their customer service is sucking these days but recently the site has kept up with my humble demands. so where are we all moving to next? but I only went to site5 because all you guys did! I have to admit that their customer service is sucking these days but recently the site has kept up with my humble demands.

so where are we all moving to next?

]]> By: JP http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/comment-page-1/#comment-2720 JP Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:35:44 +0000 http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/#comment-2720 I also use site5.com. Service is getting worse by the minute. They also gave me the 'hard drive' story for my MUSES server. Do you expect me to believe that these servers do not have redundancy and hot-swappable drivers?? I just don't believe their excuses. It looks more and more like a mickey mouse company. I understand your frustration Ian. I am already looking elsewhere. I also use site5.com. Service is getting worse by the minute. They also gave me the ‘hard drive’ story for my MUSES server. Do you expect me to believe that these servers do not have redundancy and hot-swappable drivers??
I just don’t believe their excuses. It looks more and more like a mickey mouse company.

I understand your frustration Ian. I am already looking elsewhere.

]]> By: Rich Hall http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/comment-page-1/#comment-2719 Rich Hall Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:39:03 +0000 http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/#comment-2719 Ian, You could check out <a href="http://midphase.com" rel="nofollow">http://midphase.com</a>... I host with them as well as Site5. Ian,
You could check out http://midphase.com… I host with them as well as Site5.

]]> By: Ian C. http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/comment-page-1/#comment-2718 Ian C. Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:10:38 +0000 http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/#comment-2718 I've finally been able to access the SQL database; I did a "check" on it and saw messages including: gbminine_blog.mt_comment warning : Table is marked as crashed warning : 121 clients are using or haven't closed the table properly error : Record at pos: 3749280 is not remove-marked error : record delete-link-chain corrupted error : Corrupt Doesn't sound good and probably explains why comments are broken ... so I did a "repair" and it said: gbminine_blog.mt_comment warning : Number of rows changed from 3762 to 3763 status : OK Let's see if this comment works ... Oh Goody, it did! Maybe all is well for a while ... I’ve finally been able to access the SQL database; I did a “check” on it and saw messages including:
gbminine_blog.mt_comment
warning : Table is marked as crashed
warning : 121 clients are using or haven’t closed the table properly
error : Record at pos: 3749280 is not remove-marked
error : record delete-link-chain corrupted
error : Corrupt

Doesn’t sound good and probably explains why comments are broken … so I did a “repair” and it said:
gbminine_blog.mt_comment
warning : Number of rows changed from 3762 to 3763
status : OK

Let’s see if this comment works … Oh Goody, it did! Maybe all is well for a while …

]]> By: Josh Wardell http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/comment-page-1/#comment-2717 Josh Wardell Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:27:41 +0000 http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/#comment-2717 Site5 has gone steeply downhill in 06. I had several issues with my server, often hitting 100% usage and not responsive, several times a day for weeks. I had several tickets open with them. Instead of investigating the cause of a problem, they just wait till it goes away or shows itself completely, and finally respond "it's working now." The support forums used to be very useful and constructive, but they've switched to a nazi mentality and delete any post having to do with support or server issues. I've actually taken screenshots as proof, sometimes of responses before it disappears. I wrote a long letter to management that supports encouraged and promised would get a response. No response after several months (but that ticket still exists as open in their system!). Not exactly the 10 minute response time they advertised when I signed up. Site5 presents a specific threat to the mini community, as yours, mine, bungle, minisontop, gomotoring, a handful of other sites are on it...I hope motoringfile at least has switched but maybe gabe still is too! And you see all these sites go down from time to time. I'll stop now...I could go on and on :( Site5 has gone steeply downhill in 06. I had several issues with my server, often hitting 100% usage and not responsive, several times a day for weeks. I had several tickets open with them. Instead of investigating the cause of a problem, they just wait till it goes away or shows itself completely, and finally respond “it’s working now.”

The support forums used to be very useful and constructive, but they’ve switched to a nazi mentality and delete any post having to do with support or server issues. I’ve actually taken screenshots as proof, sometimes of responses before it disappears.

I wrote a long letter to management that supports encouraged and promised would get a response. No response after several months (but that ticket still exists as open in their system!).

Not exactly the 10 minute response time they advertised when I signed up.

Site5 presents a specific threat to the mini community, as yours, mine, bungle, minisontop, gomotoring, a handful of other sites are on it…I hope motoringfile at least has switched but maybe gabe still is too! And you see all these sites go down from time to time.

I’ll stop now…I could go on and on :(

]]> By: Rich Hall http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/comment-page-1/#comment-2716 Rich Hall Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:19:33 +0000 http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/#comment-2716 I know that they have just performed some upgrades over the last week. Mail systems, PHP, and MySQL were all affected. I still am not having any issues with Site5... but I am in a stale reseller account that does not get upgraded to the new platforms they are using. I know that they have just performed some upgrades over the last week. Mail systems, PHP, and MySQL were all affected. I still am not having any issues with Site5… but I am in a stale reseller account that does not get upgraded to the new platforms they are using.

]]> By: mdsbrain http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/comment-page-1/#comment-2715 mdsbrain Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:01:04 +0000 http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/#comment-2715 I've been with Site 5 for just over a year now and service is getting worse. They are strange in that their systems are not RAID to start with. Also it seems service is different from server to server they serve which is sad. I’ve been with Site 5 for just over a year now and service is getting worse. They are strange in that their systems are not RAID to start with. Also it seems service is different from server to server they serve which is sad.

]]> By: Ian C. http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/comment-page-1/#comment-2714 Ian C. Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:31:23 +0000 http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2006/10/site5com_hosting_is_poor/#comment-2714 UPDATE #2: It seems I can post comments again. I haven't heard that Site5 changed anything ... I think there might have been some sort of SQL corruption maybe caused by the drive failure on the server. I was able to post comments again after doing some "editing" of the database ... UPDATE #2:
It seems I can post comments again. I haven’t heard that Site5 changed anything … I think there might have been some sort of SQL corruption maybe caused by the drive failure on the server.
I was able to post comments again after doing some “editing” of the database …

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