My blog site was down for about 3 hours without web access and 5 hours without FTP access. I have post the problem when it started on my blog more blog.

ANHosting.com - Power Outage for 2+ hours

I Called them 5 times and was getting “All circuit are curently busy” message and hung me up. Tried chat online and finally got hold with someone. “Power Outage” the excuse this time. It was “Cooling system failure” less than 5 days ago. I am wondering where are their backup power generator? Don’t they have any? I check their datacenter information, they seem to be very capable. How come their server is crashing twice in 5 days?

According to their status blog there was few servers affected by the outage.

ans08, backup10k, esc105, esc108, esc111, esc89, ans09, esc91, esc92, esc93, win04

Now what happens? Only the following server are up at this moment.

ans06 - Update 10:45pm CST: Server is up.
ans08 - Update 7:47pm CST: Server is up.
ans09 - Update 8:01pm CST: Server is up.
esc89 - Update 7:47pm CST: Server is up.
esc91 - Update 9:12pm CST: Server is up
esc92 - Update 8:50pm CST: Server is up.
esc93 - Update 8:01pm CST: Server is up.

What about the rest of servers?

After researching for 2 months prior switching to ANHosting.com, I truly believe that their server should well fit my currently web site need. I have been with the following SHARED web hosting company and none of them satisfied my need at this point. So I don’t have much to lose.

crystaltech.com - ColdFusion MX hosting - More expensive and less diskspace
GoDaddy.com - Small web site and email hosting - Slow. Good domain services.
Globat.com - limited MySQL connection.
1and1.com - limited MySQL connection and very slow sometimes
Hostingzoom.com shared hosting - limited disk space (1GB) and slow MySQL
Hostingzoom.com failover hosting - Not really failover. No phone support. AVOID! AVOID! Did I said it clear and loud?

This is what I post earlier about my ex-hosting company in Terence Chang is now hosted on ANhosting.com entry. Here you go!

My previous hosting company really sucks. I hosted two accounts with them. One is on their failover server and one on their old shared hosting. The shared hosting is even better than their failover hosting. I lost at least 10 sales transactions due to their server failure. They don’t pick up tech support calls. Their online chat is handled by people in India. They are nice, but they never answer your question directory or even hung you up with “Connection drop” excuse. They always said something like “Your server load is fine after we restart the server” or “We just reboot the server and everything looks fine. Your site is up and fast”. What a crap. I won’t release the hosting company name until I moved all my sites over. Otherwise, they will cut me short, which they did to others.

I would suggest anyone who read my blog to find a true dedicated hosting for their 24×7 critical web application. You get what you pay for. Don’t just fall in love with those over promising shared hosting packages. It’s not going to do any good to your web business.

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