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Written by:
Chris L Bennett
11/18/2009 1:31 PM
For the past year or so I've been using GoDaddy hosting, specially the Windows Unlimited. While there service is pretty good, the overall performance of the sites are not the greatest. They have a few qwerks in how you run multiple sites within one account which anoying and their admin site is very slow. But the biggest problem I have with them is the Database size limitation of 200MB per DB. While you can have as many as you want, this inconveniece means you have to split up sites and applications in such a way you stay below that limit.
For a while, I've been thinking about switching provides and never really planned when. Then, I came across a link to a provider I have never heard of before Arvixe. They have a similar unlimited hosting plan for Windows. It was a couple $ cheaper per month, so I thought I would go ahead and give it a try for a month on one site. After seeing just how easy the first one moved over I made the jump to move them all. My sites now run much faster and they resolve all of the issues I had with GoDaddy. Took me about 3-4 hours to move over 8 domains, web content, databases and email addresses. So far, I'm very impressed. And best of all, they don't nickle and dime like GoDaddy!
Update: 1/15/2009 - Its been almost 4 months since I completed th switch to Arvixe and I'm still very impressed. I have quite a few domains setup now and the sites are still very fast and reliable. Over the time since I switched my downtime has dropped drastically. I can say that I will be recommending Arvixe in the future to others.