Doncha love how sporadic my blogging is? Anyways…

I am becoming more and more annoyed with the fact that it seems every time I sit down to start working on my websites, they become slow as molasses and at times, the server goes down. I submit a support ticket and the server is back online shortly - only this is after my dealing with shotty connections to my hosting provider causing me to swear profusely until the server finally does go offline - if I haven’t already gotten fed up and found something else to do.

I currently pay under $15CDN/month for my hosting for a reseller account from a company out of Texas. Overall, I’ve been quite happy with them except I’d say anytime in the last year for sure if not two that this has been occurring. From what I can see, there are at least another 100 websites on this server in addition to my close to 25 making me wonder how closely they are monitoring the resources on this server. I have been wanting a VPS account for quite some time now but haven’t been able to swallow the cost at 4 times my current costs. I can’t say none of my sites are making money because some of them are but not enough that I’m getting paid on a monthly basis.

I have pondered starting to offer web hosting to people but not sure if I want to take on that headache. The advantage could possibly be that I can drum up some contract work from that. The other plus to my having a VPS account would be that I’d actually have access to the server to (hopefully) hone my Unix skills. I was this () close to registering for a VPS a few nights ago but held off and starting to wonder how much longer I can.

Today, I’m trying to justify the costs to myself from what I’d be learning by not having access to *only* a dummied down version of WHM and CPanel.

My question to those of you who have upgraded, any regrets? have you gone back to a reseller account? If so, why?