I’ve finally followed through on my near constant threats to move from Register 365 and have now taken up residence on Digiweb’s server farm; Possibly spurred on by the offer of half price hosting for life. But why? Well, my reasons were two-fold.

1. I need SSH access to complete some of my everyday tasks. I don’t use FTP and rarely use the web control panel for managing the daily/weekly upkeep of my sites (backups and so on) so I needed a host that would come in at an affordable price, be Irish and have the features I needed. I was lusting after a Blacknight VPS for a few months but the admin overhead and the price kinda put me off. It’s overkill for what I’m doing.

2. The performance of the mySQL servers on Register365 took a serious dive in the last 12 months or so. Every so often I’d find my blogs slowed to a crawl. I went as far as to measure the time it took to load a page and that made up my mind to move. A bit over 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Or, about 3 minutes and 26 seconds longer than what I’d consider acceptable. After asking for a resolution, I was moved to a new SQL server where everything was hunky dory for a few months. Then, the same thing started to happen again. Seems the Reg365 mySQL servers are just majorly bogged down.

I was considering moving my site out of Ireland and back to the likes of Dreamhost but given my stats telling me that the majority of my visitors originate from Ireland, UK or Europe, I was understandably slow to move back to an oversold US based host.

Digiweb came in at a fantastic price, with three times the amount of disk space I used to have and a bandwidth limit I’ll never reach. They are missing AW Stats I was running last time, so I’m back to basics on that front.

Instead of being an advert for all things Digiweb, this post is a plea to my visitors. Given how complicated and possibly awkward I’ve made my site since it’s birth, I may have missed something in the move. I don’t think I have, but in case you notice anything odd or not as it should be send me a quick email. Or ring me. Or get me on twitter. Thanks!