I admit that my blog (this blog) experience downtime at least once a week just like what Bendz said on his comment:

Your blog goes down at least once a week and sometimes, I get a phishing site alarm when I log in here.

I’m sorry for this. But I just want to make it clear that not all the downtimes experienced by this blog are caused by server’s problem. Most of the time the downtimes are due to the problem of this blog.

You see, I bought a hosting account (reseller hosting) from a Filipino webhost. And almost all Filipino webhosts that I knew limit all their clients site to use up to 80% of server’s resources. Once a site exceeds the limit, it will automatically be suspended. And then visitors will receive a message which says “Database Connection Error” or “The site is temporarily suspended”.

Currently, our blog receives more or less 2,000 visitors a day. And it’s already considered a huge traffic which sometimes bring my blog to the limit. That’s why you sometimes failed to log-in to this blog.

Of course, I am aware that there are lots of webhosts (foreign or non-Filipino webhosts) that are better than my provider. However, there are reasons why I prefer to use the Filipino webhosting services than those owned by non-Filipino company.

And I want to let you know that since 1999 I already experienced 5 Filipino webhosts. But among these 5 webhosts, only 2 of them are considered by me as better webhost in terms of Support and Uptimes. And they are currently my webhosts that are hosting my current blogs and websites: Ploghost.Com and Nokiahost.Com.

What about the other 3 webhosts?

Well, those 3 other webhosts were good only when my site receive few visitors a day (100 unique visitors or lower). But when the traffic increased to more than 500 visitors a day, my site went down and I received a notice from the webhost that my site was suspended due to the violation on the webhost’s terms and condition that my site experienced. And the worst thing is: they simply abandoned me… I couldn’t reach them in phone, in email and even their offices were closed.

Need a Dedicated Server 

I understand that time will come that I will really need to upgrade my webhosting account from shared to dedicated. Remember that one of my dreams is to own a site that will cater a million visitors a day. And I am always working hard to reach that dream.

Just like what I said, this blog has more or less 2,000 visitors a day already. I am still too far from my dream but I know, I will successfully reach that dream.

And I understand also that to minimize the downtimes due to the limitation set by the webhost to all accounts under the shared hosting, I must upgrade my account to dedicated one.

But the problem is, dedicated server is too much expensive. It’s true that I am earning an average (rough estimate) of $500 per month but it is my earning in all of my blogs including those that are hosted by other webhost. And besides, an earning of $500 a month is still the gross income.

Actually, it’s my current problem too.

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