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PinoyTux Update

Rai

dns, domain, PinoyTux, server, web hosting, Wordpress

Ok, my recent attempt to transfer my blog to another webhosting company obviously failed resulting to 24-48 hours downtime. The reason? I was unable to transfer the contents of my blog to the new host. Their server keeps timing out while I was importing my WP files, which includes posts, comments and categories. My blog is relatively small so I don’t see any reason for it not to import. Then thinking of doing the transfer manually, I copied the contents of my web directory followed by dumping my WP database manually in phpMyAdmin. Guess what? phpMyAdmin timed out while I was importing my dump file.

Deciding not to waste any more time, I switched back my NS servers. If only the new host allows me to setup my site even without using the FQDN,Â I can minimize the downtime. This kinda sucks but beggars can’t complain. The new web host also is banner-less, free hosting. This makes me think of hosting my site to an new paid web host.

I already have a paid webhosting company in mind who charges $1/mo for web hosting but if you have any other web hosting companies you would like to recommend, just let me know.

2 Comments to “PinoyTux Update”

3ix is Not A Cheap Hosting Provider | PinoyTux Weblog May 8, 2008 at 3:27 pm
[...] my post about transferring my site to 3ix? It was the biggest mistake I ever made with respect to my blog. I remember bragging to my blogger [...]
Mar August 12, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Heya, I know how that feels, after 3 years with 3iX I still get plenty of timeouts while uploading, and this is usually when I’m transferring a large bulk of files, with multiple directories within directories. But I’m able to transfer them eventually. Keyword: eventually, but maybe because I’m patient enough — cos I know I’m paying cheaply for cheap service, so gotta endure some stuffs.

3 years, and still going on. Just my 2cents.