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Originally Posted by DPS Computing
Yes, so just sign up and if you don't like it you can cancel it so it is effectively a free trial!
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All I would say is if you do go for a trial, if it isnt correct then do not hesitate and get it cancelled and make use of the money back guarentee assuming they will actually honour it.
I joined and in the first month just as they promised give it a try and all, the load avg on the server was very high, and would go up to over 10 very regularly, and this was during uploading some of my stuff, I found that this was regular even though i was receiving no traffic as domain names not working etc and propogating, it did die down a bit, and i put it down to being a one off, it would die down to about 3-4 but did find it would still go up on occassions. I wrote a logging file exectuted by cron that would log load avg and details of the server for my information. I had complained about the load average being high and after writing the logging script i had logged averages as high as 80 on the server, but this wasnt all the time, it just seemed to be certain times and could last a couple to three hours.
I should have cancelled and took my money back like the guarentee said. Although i have tried to log data to ensure it wasnt me which i knew it wasnt as i had hardly anyone on my website at the times during the high activity. I would also stop things from working, services such as sending a web page email and such like if the load avg was ever to go over 10. I have now been blamed for the server going over 20 as they say its due to my logging script which runs every 1 minute which cant possibly be true. Also my website stop running certain things if the server goes over 4 and shutting down stuff at 10 just to help improve performance on the server. I have been very responsible to others on the shared server, my websites dont receive much traffic and cant see what on earth my websites would be doing to be responsible for load averages over 20 and as high as 80.
All I have seem to have done is to put myself in the frame for having a logging script that executes every 1 minute appending load avg information to a text file for my information. My websites dont get much traffic or visitors i work during the day at my place of work, and the hogger responsible for creating the high load avg during certain times and certain operations only known to them that seems to last for about 2-3 hours has only but focused attention on me as the suspect. Because i have fallen out with one of the admin staff they suspended my account as they didnt like how i was talking to them cos i was trying to explain what the cron job did and that it was not possible for it to cause the server load avg to go over 20 which they claimed it was. The server was never over 20 all the time although my logger did log all the time every 1 minute but somehow i have got the blame for this, even though over 10 only basic load avg logging takes place as i wanted to see how high the load avg went.
You have 30 days to find out what the performance of the server is like, it took me between 7 and 14 days as tranferring the domains took a week and then propogation also took a couple of days, to get my 2 websites working correctly which only left me 2 weeks to see how the server performed, at that time it was already obvious that the average was between 3-5 and that at certain times and for faily long periods it would rocket up to over 10 and stay there for some time between 10 and 20 and sometimes over 20 and as high as 80.
I know if you join someone and the time it takes to get it up and running you often think it will be ok and persist as it is only more hassle to find somewhere else to put your websites and to then transfer the domains and data again.
After the trouble i have had and stuck on a server with someone that over loads it on accassions for long periods of time i have much regretted it. EUkHost are not good in finding culprits just like other providers are poor at finding culprits, they read logs of cron jobs executing but dont actually find out what the scripts are doing or whether they are doing anything at all due to load avg's, again the cron job would also look at db management after midnight every night, removing redundant records and optizing tables but again that was only done when the load avg was below 4, and during each mysql statement would check that the avg was below 4 otherwise it would terminate and wait to continue when the load avg was back down to below 4 before continuing, this was usually done between 1 and 1.30am as it is BST currently.
What ever i have done as an individual on a shared server to respect other users on the server it is very clear that it is not reciprocated and that there are individuals carrying out particular heavy intensive work on occasions for long periods where your websites suffer muchly and do not write their scripts with load avg in mind and the respect for other peoples websites on the same server. For whatever they were doing over the long periods it would be very easy for them to reciprocate and write their scripts to carry out their functions maintaining load avg for example below 10 respecting others on the same server so that their websites dont lock up or fall over due to the high load avg and work intensity on the server.
Its not worth the hassle. I wish i could afford a dedicated server, but I couldnt really afford it, plus it would be a waste as the server would idle most of the time doing very little.
My websites have very little traffic and visitors it is a hobby to me, i run my own linux box at home although couldnt leave my machine on all day and run it as a proper server.
If the performance of the server is rather poor, dont accept it, dont hesitate i know it is hassle to get everything moved and domains transferred again, but it aint worth the hassle in the long term as you will be stuck with it for a further 11 months.
I havent known 1 provider to be good in finding culprits as they tend to look at logs not necessarily what particular scripts do or dont do, i only wish that other programmers would write their scripts in the same way as myself and ensure that load avg were montitored at all times and therefore regulating the work it had to do to ensure load avg stayed say below 10 and that other peoples websites on the same server were not affected by your work, but it seems that not all of us are as consciencious and thoughtfull, instead my log file and monitoring system has only been used as amunition against me for being the culprit.
So, if the server looks like it runs high, dont accept it, take the moneyback guarentee and find somewhere else. Until provided do find away of properly finding culprits and following it through, this will alway remain an issue.
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