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  • Make this a pure lolcow forum & migrate the non-lolcow material to a different forum

    Votes: 2 13.3%

  • Emphasize the lolcow content & migrate only the political and countries stuff to a different forum

    Votes: 3 20.0%

  • Keep the political and countries stuff but deemphasize them and move them to news and events.

    Votes: 10 66.7%

  • Keep the political material & country subforums the way they are

    Votes: 0 0.0%
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We have been down for several hours and I have been trying to reach HostGator technical support. We did not have issues like this before in the past but with the rapid influx of Kiwifarms refugees, I am beginning to think that HostGator doesn't have the infrastructure to support our growth. Would Dreamhost be a better alternative?
 
Dreamhost is worth the money, DreamHost kicked Josh because he's an oppositional faggot who probably cussed them out over a minor request. Everything I've read recently from people switching from HostGator to DH is that it improves the response time by as much as 500% and DH is far more stable.

If you really wanted to rub salt in Josh's wounds though we could sign up with Cloudflare ahaha, might also draw out the troon brigade into self-doxing when they sign up to false flag us.
 
it was pretty rough
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Well I am a Kiwi refugee and the entire time I've been here it's been say, 20-ish seconds for most actions. I just thought it was some form of DDOS protection you guys were rolling with to keep twits on a bullying crusade from nuking this site too (I don't know anything about how websites work /shrug)
 
Yeah even at the best of times the site generally takes 10-20 seconds to load a page. The reason I think it's HostGator and not any other issue is because it's been happening for the last week around the same time and tapers off around the same time. It just so happens to start around 5pm EST and ends around 5am EST.
I don't know what plan we have with Gator, they do offer dedicated hosting which would put us on our own server if we're not already but the most basic plan is 89.99 and it still may not solve the problem and it's comparable to DreamHost's most economic dedicated plan
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Which is more than enough to handle what we have going on right now and keep up with us while the userbase grows from even the most basic configuration with 32gbs of ram which is 2gbs more than HostGator's best dedicated plan which costs 40 dollars more
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DreamHost is the way forward for us, performance alone justifies it, but DreamHost also provides DDoS protection and a lot of other perks that I don't think we're getting right now with Gator.

The DreamHost server would eliminate 100% of our performance issues and even the most basic dedicated plan like the one I screencapped would probably last us a 2+ years before we'd even need to consider an upgrade to accommodate more users. It'd definitely be able to handle a few hundred people and I think that's a goal we could achieve in about that timeframe.

Also consider this; when KF went down, our traffic peaked at just shy of 300 people including guests, if the site stayed functional I think we would have seen a lot of people join and stay. So that's food for thought. It may be an investment, but it may also be a path towards monetizing the site like you've wanted to do for a while.
 
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I always found hostgator to suck for forums. static sites were fine. I shifted to dream years ago.
I thought it was just my 4th world 'tin can on a string' internet connection but if other people are getting the same thing ..
new user.sorry to be part of the problem
 
Right now I have their most expensive plan. I called them yesterday. It's not a DDOS or malware. It's the traffic.The HostGator technical support person said the website is not optimized which may be causing this. I have reached out to my outside developer and told him what was going on. I hired him to fix our outdated templates and I am going to do the same for optimizing the site. If after optimizing the site we still have problems with the site going down then I think it will be time to pack our suitcases and move out of Gatorland.
 
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