What can you offer ME!

[gorilla]

Hi

Okay I run a "fairly" successful ecomm site and need to have more burstable bandwidth and a faster web presence

stats are around 10,000,000 hits per month on a shared hosting platform using a seperate MS SQL server. The whole site sits on ASP and at the moment seems to keep falling flat on its face with many periods of outage.

I want this to STOP! But when ever I approach a hosting compnay they do not want to do what I want at a price which is fair I need the following

MSSQL
ASP
CDO

I need it to be managed completely, I would accept a well implemented Helm Control apnel for which I alreayd hold the license.


It would need SSL although i can implement this myself, the mapping of domains can be done via helm or someone would ahve to do that for me

Budget? How long is a piece of string

Look at what I get sans support at one2one for £129 per month

what would you guys be able to offer me support wise and server wise. I am looking for a long term relationship not a couple of months I want my hosting company to do a good job get paid and everybody is happy

why cant I find that in todays market, most hosts just price themselves out of the market for example

fastosts (mediocre customer service at best)
dedicated hosting europe (crap customer service too)
dedipower (server came complete with Arab Hacker!!! Honestly!)
OneandOne (good server lack of support, if they had good support I prob wouldnt be here)

Please let me know what you guys can do for me


G

[cscarlet]

I don't think flump run any Windows based servers, you may want to contact the team directly at http://www.flump.net/contact.php to discuss if they can host this for you

[gorilla]

see what I mean bloody hard as rock just getting someone to the host the site


I find it incredulous I really do. In this day and age it takes such a mission to find a provider.

ahhh well I ma sure that Flump look here lets see if they offer me the service?

[dpainter]

If you're using ASP in a scripting sense (not as a wrapper for visual studio projects), for a complex high bandwidth site then it's more than likely that ASP / IIS is the single cause of reliability problems. I'd personally look to move to another platform. PHP/mySQL if you want to stay with a simplicity of scripting or move up to ASP.net if you want to stay with Microsoft technologies.

Flump have recently gauged demand for Windows hosting and have been looking into cpanel-style systems they can offer. However, no official announcements as of yet.

Dave

[gorilla]

yes we are using ASP as scripting with the whole cart running on ASP with a MSSQL database back end

are we saying that this could be the problem

not the fact I could have sometimes 100 concurrent connections to a shared hosting environment?

I would have though that say for instance

a 2.8-3.0ghz processor
1gb memory
80 gb hd

with high burstable bandwidth and only say 5 sites on it should be able to be robust enough using ASP to withstand that sort of traffic

of course I am open to suggestions but changing the make up of the site is not one of them unfortunaely

so is Flump going to come up trumps?

lets see.....

[dwx]

Originally posted by dpainter
it's more than likely that ASP / IIS is the single cause of reliability problems I disagree. If the server guys don't know what they're doing, then yeah - potential for problems. Or if you've got a huge database (a couple of million records*) and really badly written code.

*which isn't really that big

Making some guesses about your current host:stats are around 10,000,000 hits per month on a shared hosting platform using a seperate MS SQL server.

You've given some hardware specs too, but is this for the web server or the separate SQL server? What could be the case is the host's other clients are hammering the SQL Server, especially if one or two other clients have huge databases and badly written code. On your current setup, how big is your database? In MB if you know it.

[gorilla]

the stats are for an all in one machine

currently the database is at about 100mb (very small I know we are a minnow)

but everything is ripe for expansion so how do I find the right host?

any ideas anyone

the code is commerically written code and is very robust

the current SQL server has about 200 databases on it that I can see

the hosting servewr I would imagine has about 500 websites on it but no way of checking this

[dwx]

Your current host probably loads as many sites as possible onto each box - especially with the SQL Server - since a CPU licence costs £3.5K a time.