Re: dblog.aldacron.net is Clean Again
On 13 Apr 2014 1:45 PM, Mike Parker aldac...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/13/2014 6:39 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 4/11/2014 9:10 AM, Mike Parker wrote: Because of this experience, I've decided it's time to move away from shared hosting. I'm going to transfer everything over to a VPS (either with Digital Ocean or Linode) so that I can always have shell access. If you do go with Digital Ocean, I'd be interested in hearing how it works out. Their $5/mo option might be a good way out next time I have a client who's trying to use a shared PHP-oriented host. If you don't want to post here my email is nick1 (and the email's domain name is semitwist.com). I wound up going with Linode. I had used them before when I needed a short-term VPS and already had an account. I've been using digitalocean and I quite like them. Unfortunately I haven't had any problems so I could say how they handle that. I use them for work and for quick trials.
Re: dblog.aldacron.net is Clean Again
On 4/13/2014 6:39 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 4/11/2014 9:10 AM, Mike Parker wrote: Because of this experience, I've decided it's time to move away from shared hosting. I'm going to transfer everything over to a VPS (either with Digital Ocean or Linode) so that I can always have shell access. If you do go with Digital Ocean, I'd be interested in hearing how it works out. Their $5/mo option might be a good way out next time I have a client who's trying to use a shared PHP-oriented host. If you don't want to post here my email is nick1 (and the email's domain name is semitwist.com). I wound up going with Linode. I had used them before when I needed a short-term VPS and already had an account.
Re: dblog.aldacron.net is Clean Again
On Sunday, 13 April 2014 at 11:44:50 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On 4/13/2014 6:39 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 4/11/2014 9:10 AM, Mike Parker wrote: Because of this experience, I've decided it's time to move away from shared hosting. I'm going to transfer everything over to a VPS (either with Digital Ocean or Linode) so that I can always have shell access. If you do go with Digital Ocean, I'd be interested in hearing how it works out. Their $5/mo option might be a good way out next time I have a client who's trying to use a shared PHP-oriented host. If you don't want to post here my email is nick1 (and the email's domain name is semitwist.com). I wound up going with Linode. I had used them before when I needed a short-term VPS and already had an account. Sorry for arriving late in this thread, but if you need hosting for D-related projects, I'd be glad to offer some on my server. You get a limited Linux user with full shell access, and your choice of httpd.
Re: dblog.aldacron.net is Clean Again
I wound up going with Linode. I had used them before when I needed a short-term VPS and already had an account. Sorry for arriving late in this thread, but if you need hosting for D-related projects, I'd be glad to offer some on my server. You get a limited Linux user with full shell access, and your choice of httpd. Thanks for the offer. I'd take you up on it, but now that I've broken away from shared hosting I plan to make use of the resources on this VPS for more than just D stuff.
Re: dblog.aldacron.net is Clean Again
On 4/11/2014 9:10 AM, Mike Parker wrote: Because of this experience, I've decided it's time to move away from shared hosting. I'm going to transfer everything over to a VPS (either with Digital Ocean or Linode) so that I can always have shell access. If you do go with Digital Ocean, I'd be interested in hearing how it works out. Their $5/mo option might be a good way out next time I have a client who's trying to use a shared PHP-oriented host. If you don't want to post here my email is nick1 (and the email's domain name is semitwist.com).
Re: dblog.aldacron.net is Clean Again
On 04/11/2014 03:41 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: (...) I haven't looked closely at the other VPS companies, but in my experience you can't go wrong with Linode. They're amazing. I'm ultra-critical of freaking everything, and yet I don't have a single, even minor, complaint about Linode. (But then I'm a control freak, so VPS is a natural fit for me anyway, so FWIW.) Been using Linode for ~3 years, but a couple of months ago my node had a HW problem and was down for a couple of minutes. In other words - Linode is pretty good.
Re: dblog.aldacron.net is Clean Again
On 4/11/2014 9:10 AM, Mike Parker wrote: Google has cleared the dblog.aldacron.net domain from the blacklist, so it's safe to visit The One With D and the Derelict forums again. Ultimately, I had to root everything out myself. Tech support was friendly enough, but very little help (they advised me that I needed to find the problem, which is what I asked for help with in the first place). It turns out there was a hidden executable which was completely invisible to my ftp client. I was able to see it only through the CPanel File Manager, but I was unable to delete it. Every attempt succeeded, only for the file to come back again. But once I eliminated all sorts of php files and fixed a number of static html files that had been modified, the problem went away even if the executable did not. Tech support did, finally, tell me they would remove the offending file. Ouch! At least it's all sorted out. Because of this experience, I've decided it's time to move away from shared hosting. I'm going to transfer everything over to a VPS (either with Digital Ocean or Linode) so that I can always have shell access. Yea, shared hosting can be a pain. TBH, all my biggest web server problems have always been directly related to one shared host or another. I got fed up and switched to VPS a few years and haven't looked back. I haven't looked closely at the other VPS companies, but in my experience you can't go wrong with Linode. They're amazing. I'm ultra-critical of freaking everything, and yet I don't have a single, even minor, complaint about Linode. (But then I'm a control freak, so VPS is a natural fit for me anyway, so FWIW.)
Re: dblog.aldacron.net is Clean Again
On 4/11/2014 10:01 AM, simendsjo wrote: On 04/11/2014 03:41 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: (...) I haven't looked closely at the other VPS companies, but in my experience you can't go wrong with Linode. They're amazing. I'm ultra-critical of freaking everything, and yet I don't have a single, even minor, complaint about Linode. (But then I'm a control freak, so VPS is a natural fit for me anyway, so FWIW.) Been using Linode for ~3 years, but a couple of months ago my node had a HW problem and was down for a couple of minutes. In other words - Linode is pretty good. Yea. *I've* caused far more downtime to my linode server than linode has :)
