The Joys of Shared Hosting

… are of course the low price tag and not having to maintain the server yourself.

The downside however, is that you are at the mercy of your mostly unknown neighbours. Who happen to reside on the same server. So what happened? ThinkLemon.com was out of service for quite a while. 14 hours straight to be exact.
All because one neighbour (un)willingly decided to play not so nice. Cascading in a total server melt-down. Apparently the wrong-doer has been kicked and all should be well for now.

Lesson learned? Don’t go experimenting in a live-server environment!!! Thank you. If you must, please experiment locally and test your stuff before release. How? See XAMPP from apachefriends.org. They have ready-to-go Apache+MySQL+PHP+Perl packages for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and Solaris.
So if you decide to create infinite loops from hell. It’ll be only your system that crashes.

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3 Responses to “The Joys of Shared Hosting”

1. Fred Says:
   August 25th, 2005 at 10:28 pm

   Well said!

2. Caspar Says:
   August 26th, 2005 at 12:03 am

   Thanks. I also got a nice ’sorry’ mail from my/our reseller.

   (Sidenote: Also edited some typo’s in the above post)

3. ThinkLemon » Blog Archive » Is WordPress 2.0 that sluggish? Says:
   January 10th, 2006 at 2:58 am

   […] Directly after upgrading this weblog, little over a week ago, I felt it was a little bit sluggish. Compared to the 1.5 version I was running before. Maybe it could be just the webserver as I’m running on a shared hosting solution. Therefore one of the neighbours could be having a party… again. […]

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