21 Responses for "This site has moved hosts"

1. Evan December 8th, 2006 at 9:39 pm 1

   Everything looks dandy!

2. John B. December 8th, 2006 at 10:00 pm 2

   Luckily, the domain move wasn’t far apparently… I can already see this all the way in Rhode Island (and in less than two hours)…

3. Megan December 8th, 2006 at 10:02 pm 3

   Hi V,

   I have your blog as a feed on my Netvibes and it was coming up as an error for a couple of hours, but now everything is fine!

4. Rodrigo December 8th, 2006 at 11:07 pm 4

   The site is loading fine here…
   But I did have some issues before. Sometimes the site wouldn’t load at all. I’ll make sure to tell you if I see anything wrong.

5. William December 9th, 2006 at 12:46 am 5

   Everythings working fine except in the feed there is an extra entry called “Moving Servers” before this post which links to a page that does not exist. I’m using Google Personalised Home Page.

6. Mark Zita from Aus December 9th, 2006 at 4:38 am 6

   Oh wow, iiNet (my internet provider here in Australia) actually recognises DNS propagation and change quickly for once! When my host switched servers, it took more than 3 weeks for my ISP to pick it up. Anyway, I don’t see any problems here.

7. Kevin C. December 9th, 2006 at 7:33 am 7

   Everything looks ok from here @ Bogota Colombia

8. Jonathan C December 9th, 2006 at 7:38 am 8

   yup, if it works in bogota, it HAS to work in the US as well… how is ‘laughing squiddy’ as a host?

9. Blaze December 9th, 2006 at 8:41 am 9

   looks fine from Concord NC

10. Rich December 9th, 2006 at 8:52 am 10

    Veronica, DNS seemed to propagate here to NY.

    What were your requirements picking a host? Though they seem like a cool company, their plans (only 500MB for $12-$14/mo!) seem a bit anemic. Are they offering something other hosts don’t that I’m not seeing?

    I looked at CNet’s list of hosting providers when choosing mine and ended up on IX Web Hosting. They’ve been great for the year I’ve had them and I get unlimited disk space 2,000GB transfer, a ton of domains if I want them, and all the LAMP packages to run blogs and wikis and all that for $13/mo.

    That said, I might be missing out on something great at Laughing Squid - they seem to be getting more popular. Do they give you shell access?

11. Pete H December 9th, 2006 at 9:56 am 11

    It’s working fine here in NY

12. NeuroMan42 December 9th, 2006 at 10:25 am 12

    Everytime I visit the new site my socks vanish. I have like one pair left… WTF.

13. John B. December 9th, 2006 at 2:40 pm 13

    I could be wrong, Rich, but I think the reason Laughing Squid is popular is because it promotes an arts-and-culture community among its clients. There isn’t anything comparable to it where I live, but from what little I’ve seen (a blog post here and their website), it’s pretty intense.

14. Rich December 9th, 2006 at 2:53 pm 14

    John: That’s actually quite interesting - using a host that’s physically located in a community where they take an active role in their members and their endeavors.

    I’d like to hear more if anyone has more information. I see that they have discounted “starving artist” plans, which is also quite cool.

    To keep costs down, I split the plan I use with a few friends. They have so many domains allowed and unlimited disk space, so there’s way more resources to go around than we can use up. So for $100 I have an unlimited disk space host for 2 years.

15. Jason W. December 9th, 2006 at 10:30 pm 15

    The Vidget still works too!

16. Nick Schmidt December 11th, 2006 at 1:38 pm 16

    Why did you even switch hosts? I thought this was all through wordpress? or am I just out of it?

17. Veronica December 11th, 2006 at 1:41 pm 17

    I was being hosted privately, and the bandwidth became too much for them to handle. I’m not hosted by Wordpress.

18. Nick Schmidt December 11th, 2006 at 2:46 pm 18

    oh ok.. I just see at the bottom of the website that it was designed by someone for wordpress.. So I assumed you used wordpress.. hope you are doing ok..
    I have been thinking about using http://www.dreamhost.com/

    But.. blogger is free. and so is everything else that I use. So why don’t u just use other things for free..?? or I may just guess you have the hook up

19. Veronica December 11th, 2006 at 3:21 pm 19

    no, i don’t get free hosting.
    1. i like to support local businesses, which Laughing Squid is.
    2. i prefer the flexibility that comes with having your own domain, as opposed to a blogger account (i used to have musicmedicine.blogspot.com)

    i’ve heard not-so-wonderful things about Dreamhost.

20. Nick Schmidt December 11th, 2006 at 7:29 pm 20

    Really? Hmm.. Yea our local host sucks actually and it is expensive. Well if my website gets as popular as yours then I will have to do that… right now I only have about 100 subscribers or so.. but only about 60 confirmed from my website… I have good and bad things about dreamhost too , it just seemed you get more bang for your buck…

21. John B. December 11th, 2006 at 9:54 pm 21

    Dreamhost isn’t the best hosting company in the world, but I admit I do use them. For the price, you can’t beat the features. If there were any good local companies I would think about switching, but here in Little Rhody, I’ve discovered they’re still in 1995 when it comes to technology.

    As an example, I work for Brown University (we who use AS/400s and dial-up modems, hehe), and part of our campus used a local hosting provider for a small bookstore website… who was charging us $30 per month for under 1Gb of space, and wouldn’t even let us set up PHP5. No bandwidth either. I can’t justify that cost for a company that isn’t even all that good (no control panel? are you kidding me?).

    LS seems awesome though… if I ever move to SF, I’m there.

    (wow this comment was long…)