Questions after Migration.

[580203]

I am thinking of moving my sites and my customers' sites to Dathorn. Everything looks good, price is outstanding. My question is- for those of you on Dathorn- is there something that you wished you had known about the service before you did your transfer? I see great things on this board, but just curious if anyone had glitches I can learn from. PM me if that makes you more comfortable.

Thanks in advance. Looks like a great community here!

[Grunfeld]

Pay the extra few dollars to get Dathorn to move your sites from your old host ( if you are hosted on C-Panel)

Get the correct package....!!

Dathorn is to good to be true..... but believe it you will be happy as long as you are happy with the Terms of Service from Dathorn...


Cheers,

[rsowen]

Been here since Feb 03 (an earlyish customer) and this place has never ever been anything less than promised. That makes it much higher than expected.

Some folks post after being shut down for using "too much" processor time or bandwidth. Perhaps this is something that some would want to know about ahead of time. E.g., a news story mentions a web site, the shared server suffers from the publicity, and the account is disabled before the rest of us on that server start complaining. Although this can be bad for someone who got positive publicity, most of us don't mind that the account was temporarily disabled. That's something that some might want to know about; it's something that most of us don't mind.

I had some really really really bad experiences with two other hosting services, so I had very low expectations when I came here. It's was a surprise that the move went smoothly and nothing has gone wrong since. No promises are made with regard to reliability, but the history of performance is allowed to speak for itself. Reliability is very good (at least in my experience; I don't know the formal definition of "good"), and whenever there is a glitch of any sort, associated issues are posted for all to see. If anything appears to be wrong, we all know to first consult this forum; chances are, there will be a post to say that a processor is being replaced with an estimate of completion time or that a server is suffering from a DOS attack or something like that. Stuff happens, and all I need to know is that it is under control by someone who appears to have a grip on how to fix it.

[580203]

Thank you, this had some helpful replies. I do have one site that gets a lot of traffic and would hesitate to move it based on what I have read here. I might open a new account here and put new customers here and slowly close out the other servers.

Thanks to all of you for your input. I still think this is pretty positive here.

[Frank Hagan]

The one other thing to remember about Dathorn is that you can't oversell your resources. Each site you host is allocated a certain amount of disk space and bandwidth, and that allocation counts against your total.

To allocate the disk space and bandwidth you create "packages" with disk space and bandwidth defined, and assign each account one of your packages. You can have as many packages as you want, so you can tailor the disk and bandwidth allotments to meet your customer's needs.

If you get the Basic Account, you have 2GB disk space and 30GB bandwidth. While you can host as many sites as you want, you can only allocate them each a portion of that total.

Example:
If you have a 100mb disk and 1GB bandwidth "package", you can only host 20 sites that have that package assigned to them. 20 x 100mb = 2GB (if my math is correct).

If you have another package that is 200mb disk and 1GB, then you can host 10 of them, or 5 of them and 10 of the smaller package, etc.

This was the most difficult thing for me to grasp, coming from a host that allowed overselling. I have come to like the concept because the servers here are fast and reliable. But it did mean that I had to discuss and allocate smaller disk space allotments to some of my customers.

(As an aside, the Linux file system is very efficient with disk space).