Recently I’ve been having a few problems with the web hosting provider I use used to use for this site and others. After a couple of years of solid service the last couple of months have proved to be anything but reliable. Performance was never anything to write home about but lately has become unacceptably poor. Couple that with intermittent down time over the last few weeks and the fact they managed to lose the contents of my home directory at the back end of last week and it was time to find a better solution!

After an unhelpful exchange with their support team it became apparent they couldn’t restore any of the lost content and had no backup procedure in place, luckily I have copies of anything that’s important. They seemed to have little interest in helping me and continued to reply with a generic message blaming a hardware fault, requesting that I re upload my files and offering a month’s free hosting for the inconvenience. Instead I chose to look elsewhere.

I’ve been toying with the idea of using a VPS for some time now and this offered the perfect excuse to move. After a little searching I settled on a solution with 256MB ram and the possibility of an easy upgrade in the future. A couple of days of setting-up/tweaking to get everything running nicely and here we are, andatche.com is back up at a new home! I’ve still got a few things to fine tune before I’ll be completely happy with everything but so far all is well.