Shared Hosting or Virtual Private Server?
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller said:
For example, no normal shared web host can host NodeBB.
Why?
Because they lack support for GIT, they lack support for NodeJS and they lack Redis or MongoDB options. Basically, they don't offer any support in any way for hosting it
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@scottalanmiller BTW how is a small orange treating you?
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller BTW how is a small orange treating you?
Mostly good. Price is great, customer service is phenomenal. We've had some momentary outages that happen way too frequently but we only know about them because our Alertra system catches them as they are only a few seconds in duration. We never see the sites down but we do get the alerts. The performance on ASO has been very good, better than we were seeing with VPSs that we used in the past.
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@scottalanmiller Are you sure it's real downtime? I had this happen once, but it was the load balancer the shared host was using. The site never was really down.....
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller Are you sure it's real downtime? I had this happen once, but it was the load balancer the shared host was using. The site never was really down.....
The site is behind a load balancer. If the LB fails, the site is down. Down meaning people can't access it. That's the most important definition of downtime - down for users.
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And as the load balancing is part of the hosting product, the hosted service is failing to be "up", I'd call that down.
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@scottalanmiller Do you have CloudFlare in front of the site?
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@scottalanmiller last time I had this issue CloudFlare is causing the issue....
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@anonymous trying add the IP address to your monitoring.
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller last time I had this issue CloudFlare is causing the issue....
What was CF doing that caused the issue? I use CF all the time, including with these sites on other hosts, and never see this issue.
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@anonymous said:
@anonymous trying add the IP address to your monitoring.
I don't care if the server is up, I care if the site on the server is up. The site can easily be down while the server is still up.
