Time to rebuild my host spread

**BrandonTheG** · November 8th, 2009, 23:07

I'll set you up an account tomorrow and shoot you a PM.

**TaoPhoenix** · November 9th, 2009, 22:20

Finite Media / Timelord added.

**BrandonTheG** · November 9th, 2009, 22:52

Sent account info via PM.

**TaoPhoenix** · November 10th, 2009, 08:16

I think that's the series ...
So I'll spend a fews days oranizing & reviewing, then I'll post an update.

**Jigzo** · November 10th, 2009, 12:40

good for you ------

**TaoPhoenix** · November 12th, 2009, 10:10

All the hosts in the spread are up. I think they're (almost?) all cPanel.

**Timelord_** · November 12th, 2009, 16:26

cPanel is what all the cool kids use

**TaoPhoenix** · November 14th, 2009, 17:59

In approximate order of strength

cWahi
Paradox Servers
Turesweb
Finite Media
Just-a-Post
mwzaf

I am investigating an auto-replace issue with cWahi.

I made a dashboard that looks like this:

http://taophoenix.cwahi.net/Tauceti.html
http://taophoenix.turesweb.com/Tauceti.html
http://taophoenix.paradoxservers.net/Tauceti.html
http://taophoenix.finitemedia.com/Tauceti.html
http://taophoenix.brandonsgames.com/Tauceti.html
http://phoenix.mwzaf.com/Tauceti.html

**Timelord_** · November 14th, 2009, 18:12

Third last! DOH!

**Tyler** · November 14th, 2009, 18:23

How did I make it into second place!?.

By the way, why does my link on the site re-direct to your sub-directory when the others actually go to the site of the host?. Just curious.

**TaoPhoenix** · November 14th, 2009, 18:50

Originally Posted by Timelord_

Third last! DOH!

Approximate!

cWahi gets lead because they have the risky postion of advertising unbelievable longevity + 650 horsepower.

Mwzaf MADE the list, because despite some server troubles, they are actually online at the moment, and they have a better spokesman lately.

Otherwise it's a big fluxy tie for the middle.

Turesweb was second to offer and responded extremely fast to my setup questions. At the moment Paradox was on Firefox so they ended up on second as the test host, but it's one of those nonexistent artifacts of design. (It so happens that I paired up a host with a browser, and I hate Safari! hehe.) Timelord put up with MoronClient emails, but I had to have SOME stable reference to test on. If I had to jab a pencil at it, I think Paradox had better uptime than mwzaf vs. order of setup.

Brandon is pretty good; he's ex-X10, moving towards a spinoff of his own. I like the JustAPost theme. I hope he finds a way to allow Stacked posts. I banged up a couple to spread the cheer.

Darksoul, I'll fix that quasi-soon. Turns out cWahi has some kind of Anti-Hotlink widget in place that auto-switches graphics to a hotfed banner. That's a pretty big strike - I'm not happy with my design getting torched, so they landed a "penalty link". I think I needed a baseline to prove the point cross-server, and then I finally ran out of energy. They also auto-feed a mini-banner. So that's a tough call, but they still get lead barely from their risky position.

One host may return; they were working this morning and then tanked midafternoon.

Heh - so I'm a ways out from my "2-3", and my design has room for 7 more! But the point is, it's a long haul test. So don't expect week-to-week fireworks. I'm not going to slam someone for a server outage. But the point of the dashboard is if someone finally falls off, I'll notice.

I'd say the first couple of checkpoints is sometime like January-March.

**TaoPhoenix** · November 15th, 2009, 13:00

Originally Posted by Darksoul

How did I make it into second place!?.

By the way, why does my link on the site re-direct to your sub-directory when the others actually go to the site of the host?. Just curious.

I fixed this today.
And free! At no extra charge! I added an "s" to the Paradox Servers button!

**Tyler** · November 15th, 2009, 13:31

Originally Posted by TaoPhoenix

I fixed this today.
And free! At no extra charge! I added an "s" to the Paradox Servers button!

Sweet!. Assuming your still fixing it since its only fixed on cWahi

Edit: Yup. Fixed.

**TaoPhoenix** · November 15th, 2009, 14:41

Blecch!

Folks, that's why the Dark One is in second place! I got distracted writing my tech support case for the hotlink bit and he caught it before I could spill-down the new file across the spread.