The wonderful folks at
WebHosting4Life shut down my site for a while today. Seems as though this site was eating 100% of the CPU (I’ve got multiple sites hosted on the same account, but this one was the one hogging resources). Instead of emailing me and letting me know that this site was too much of a strain on the old, small server it was hosted on, and scheduling something with me, they just shut down my site and then sent me an email letting me know that they did it, the site was using 100% of the resources and to contact them via their support site. A quick reply to let them know that I haven’t done any updates to the site software in a while, and that I’m just using a slightly modified version of .Text. They replied that my site is on an old box, and they will move my site later tonight to a new server. I’ve been with WebHosting4Life since 2002, so it doesn’t surprise me that my sites are on an older sever, but just shutting down my site is uncalled for. I know of other sites using .Text on WebHosting4Life that get a lot more traffic (last month I had 4.25 GB of traffic, mostly compressed RSS feeds. which is an all time high number for this site). Lately, WH4L’s uptime for stuff like my email service has been less then stellar (they say they have had routing issues), and I’m beginning to wonder if I should start to look for a new hosting provider. For the money, WH4L has been a great deal, but it looks like there are now providers out there that can compete with them.
GoDaddy has .Net support now, and has similar plans to WebHosting4Life. I may have to take a look into there services, and see if I can get some feedback from .Net developers using their services. It could be that they are not any better.