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Informative Post is Back Online

 AAAAAANNNNND, we're back! After 5 days of waiting, the Informative Post is back online and ready to go with a new host, and domain registrar. In lue of recent events, many of you know that I have been getting overly frustrated with the Informative Post's old host company. They shut us down for causing too much server load. The first time they did it, I forgave and forgot. The second time they did it, I packed my files and databases up, and headed out the door!

I decided to move to a new host company called DreamHost because of one of my influential Internet friends whom I respect greatly recommended them to me. That I know of, the host has no past record of shutting sites down without notice unless breaking the host's terms of service contract.

What made this process more grueling however was changing the Informative Post's domain registrar over to GoDaddy.com. The only reason I did this was because I love their domain management utilities and tools, and I wanted it to be the place where I can manage all my domains.

Changing domain registrars normally takes between 3-5 business days though, so that is what most of the wait was from. I had the site and it's databases over to DreamHost immediately, but changing the domain registrar took a little while. If none of the above makes sense, it doesn't matter. What does matter is that the site is back up and running!

I tried to keep everyone informed about what was going on with the Informative Post as best I could either through Twitter or email. I hope no one is so upset that they have left the Informative Post or worse yet, thought the site was down for good! I haven't got much sleep recently, because of worries that I would lose the community that I have built here. I am impressed of the quality authors that this site has brought together and I hope that I can bring other people who are looking for content to the quality authors that I have here today.

Thank you for coming back, and I hope to make it up to all of you in the coming months. I have a lot of plans for this site to further it's growth and the community's growth. If any of you have any questions, like always, I have an open door policy and would love to hear from you.
By: Douglas Brown
Published: 07/14/08


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11 Posted Comments:

@ 12:08 pm 07/14/08 by Mr. U
Hate to say it, but you might want to be prepared to have your site shut down again...

DreamHost is notorious for overselling their servers to ridiculous levels, then cutting off anyone who uses any significant amount of CPU.

That said, I'm happy that IP is back online.
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@ 1:26 pm 07/14/08 by Douglas Brown
If that does happen, I will be upgrading my account immediately. Right now I don't think that I could afford a dedicated server at this point. Hopefully in the near future.

@ 6:05 am 07/15/08 by Mr. U
Well there certainly are shared hosts that don't shut you off for having a popular site. Admittedly their prices aren't as jaw-droppingly low as Dreamhost, but in my experience (and as a couple of Google searches will confirm) low prices don't mean much if you can't realistically use what you're promised.

The other option (if shared hosting doesn't work out), is to use a VPS. They usually occupy the price point between shared and dedicated hosting, and offer guaranteed resources (a good thing for a popular site like IP.) With a well-tuned mysqld and httpd you could likely fit IP on a $20/month VPS with no issues.

@ 1:34 pm 07/14/08 by Douglas Brown
I have had a lot of people contact me through email asking about the site. I have posted in previous blog articles that if anything like this ever happened again, that I would be posting to my twitter account about the updates. I hope no one feels like they were left in the dark about this.
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@ 3:11 pm 07/14/08 by MaryLynn321
I am glad to see you up and running again. I had just submitted 5 articles. I didn't receive any emails. And didn't know about the twitter account. But, I do now.

Good luck, glad your back.

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Welcome back!

@ 4:07 pm 07/14/08 by littlepinoy
Heheheh. Welcome back online! A lot of us have been awaiting for InformativePost to go online again and kept ourselves updated. You don't have to worry much about it. :-D
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@ 8:50 pm 07/14/08 by Amitpatel
Welcome back and I am glad to see it back. I just started using Informative post and found it down. It is really great to see you shift new host and I also heard many good feedback of this host.

Best of luck with new host.
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@ 2:34 am 07/15/08 by Ardi J.
You can never imagine, that I checked Informative Post 10 times a day! I always tried to go to this page, but it was shut. This morning, I was very surprised and truly happy that this site is finally back. Now, I can continue making money again!
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@ 3:40 am 07/15/08 by Gloamglozer
Great News!!! I've been waiting awhile to get back on again. Hopefully something like this wouldn't happen again soon.
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@ 6:49 am 07/15/08 by wasted18
Good news. I thought I was banned from logging into the site that's why the access denied banner was shouting at me from my browser. Good thing you came back.
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Welcome back!

@ 2:53 pm 07/15/08 by Jannie Borg Larsen
Hi! I'm glad to see the Informative Post site back online again. During the days it was down I checked every day, to see if it was back online. I was really surprised to see it down and worried if it been hacked or something.

But since you have put so much energy into making it great and was planning for it to grow I was sure that it could not be your intention to just close it down. Anyway, nice to see it back and alright!
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