Server Upgrade

I upgraded my server yesterday to the VPS300 plan at Spry. My old server was being hit pretty hard and wasn’t managing to serve the pages at a decent speed, actually if you made a visit in the last few days you would have thought the server was down. I was told with the upgrade my server would be placed on a different nod that has fewer servers so I should see a big performance boost. From what I can tell it’s a lot faster and my traffic is heading back to normal rates, although mint is driving me crazy with it’s inconstant stats.

The price isn’t getting to me yet, I already get a large discount with Spry and TLA is paying for the the hosting 5 fold. But I’m thinking there’s got to be a dedicated plan out there with a similar rate or bunk up with Jared and get our own server and colo it.

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I'm the owner and solution engineer at Sprout Venture, a web solutions company that specializes in web development including WordPress.

I started my first blog in 2003 and transitioned to WordPress in 2004. Since moving to WordPress I've written a few plugins and themes for public consumption. Lately I'm busy engineering/building/coding and have only been able to share a few code snippets.

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  • Dan
    I'll fix it later.

    I don't think I'll want to move to a home server unless the cons are worked out; like speed.

    For me it's loading faster. The problem I have is all of the stuff loading. I have a few plugins I might scrape because they loads even if you're not on the page the plugin works on. You'll notice Crazysox.net loads faster then before and much faster then this page.

    I wish I could just load the js and alt css in the footer.
  • JaredB
    PS - what is the CSS you are using for links in comments right now? It looks like there is some difference in the link in my previous comment ("best DSL provider ever"), but it doesn't seem very noticeable.
  • JaredB
    Oh yeah, I almost forgot why I came to the page originally to comment.

    I was going to say that now that we're moving into an area that potentially supports DSL, I'm going to look into getting a second connection (from the best DSL provider ever) and running all my servers at home again, instead of using a hosting plan. I'm still weighing the pros and cons right now.
  • JaredB
    Maybe it's just me, but it still seems to be taking a really long time to load your site right now. Is there some maintenance going on or something?
  • Wish you would of let me know of your problem got a dedicated server barely doing anything
    Pierre
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