hosting

This website is hosted at Site5 as well as 4 other sites on mine, among them are: www.davidandnasha.ca and www.maureenlazzari.ca. I have owned this web hosting account since last October and I have found the speed to be satisfactory although not amazing, which is what you would expect from shared hosting.

Recently, however, the service got worse and worse and finally there were a couple of occasions where I could not connect to my site for 30 seconds, and running time svn status at the command line could take anywhere between 0.2s to 2 min. I have always had good experiences with site5's customer service. I started bugging them, mainly complaining about the slow svn status command because that seemed more repeatable and not dependant on network slowdowns at all (it is strictly a local command). Eventually after a lot of nagging, the people at site5 said they found a spammer operating on my server, then after I complained that there was still a problem, they found another spammer. Apparently there were a lot of exim processes running on the box. Anyways, the service has been great lately and I hope it continues.

Site5 has taken some flack lately but I still think that they are one of the best shared hosting sites around.