Can anyone recommend a cheap web hosting provider suitable for this site? I need cpanel and it currently runs on a linux server. I need a full service, including setting up the site from a backup.

The last full website backup was 18GB. I think the number of files (inodes) may be an issue with the yabb forum, but I am still trying to figure out how many there are.

I am currently with hostgator on a VPS with 4 cores, 8GB of RAM, 240 GB SSD. I could probably scale that back a bit, but not much.

The advertising has not been covering the cost of hosting for a long time, so I am paying for most of this myself. I am also looking into alternative advertising options, but they are not easy to assess.

Again, I suggest HostPapa, significantly cheaper than PacificData.

I just had to cancel my credit card because of hostgator.

They sent me an email in December saying they did not have valid credit card details for me and I needed to update my information. I did not give them new details as I do not want them automatically charging me anything.

Then on Monday they notified me that they had made a failed attempt to charge my credit card. I did not notice this one at the time.

Then this afternoon my bank's fraud hotline called me because someone had made multiple attempts to charge just under $10,000 to my credit card.

So I got onto a "live" chat with hostgator. This went for over 2 hours, because the chat system was laggy. Sometimes it took 5 minutes for my own post to appear, and a lot of them appeared out of order. The responses from the other end were also quite delayed - not sure if due to technical issues or the person wandering off for a coffee.

Hostgator initially denied trying to charge my credit card, several times. Then I eventually dug up their email from Monday and gave them a copy, at which point they admitted to that attempt. So I called the bank back for more details and they said there had been six more attempts today, spaced in roughly one hour intervals, all for the same amount - slightly more than the attempt on Monday. All charges had the name hostgator attached to them. Hostgator is still denying the 6 attempts made today. They only admit to one on Monday and one from December, which they did not notify me about, other than telling me they need updated credit card details.

The weird thing is the bank said some of the attempts were made on the details from an expired card, and some on the current card, but I have no idea how hostgator got the details for the current card - perhaps they guessed the new expiry date. I think the 16 digit number is the same.

They will eventually, but I am looking into alternatives.

There might be some interruptions next week if I move to a new host then.

No. They don't have a plan with enough disk space for this site.

Thanks Bobby. That's an excellent idea.

It's much faster now

Unfortunately I don't really have records of how fast it was before.

Does anyone else notice a speed improvement?

freediver wrote on Jan 25^th, 2024 at 3:25pm:



It seems faster now but maybe they give you honeymoon speeds?

Aussie,
in all fairness - you're not the one paying the bill. 

he who pays the piper calls the tune.    

I can pay you in Cake FD. 

Jasin wrote on Jan 25^th, 2024 at 5:15pm:


Have you seen the peanut butter falcon?

freediver wrote on Jan 25^th, 2024 at 4:50pm:


This bastard.

Link.

Jasin wrote on Jan 25^th, 2024 at 6:58pm:

It's the software, numpty.  You can do all sorts of cool stuff with it.

Posting links and photos is a breeze, for example.  And there is lots more.

Yank forum needs to do something about robots—update its robots.txt file.

Good robots follow the instructions in that file—HM time it can spend on the site.

108 robots there now! 1600 guests—HM of them are spambots?

Layout sucks. No security certificate.

Captain Nemo wrote on Jan 26^th, 2024 at 7:26am:


Meh! 
Inequality is more stimulating.
Like when Victoria and Melbourne were like another country.
Equality is like Pauline's Boring One Nation. Breeds stagnation.
Just ban the Feudal Lords for 2 weeks if they post a Topic that does not reflect the Theme of the Boards they Moderate.
Bannings are like Executions !!! 

Hi FD,
check it again in one month.

Sometimes the hosts give you faster times for a one month honeymoon period. 

They are pretty sneaky.

That's what you would have to pay someone to answer your questions, Aussie.

I'm happy to take FreeDiver's PA Forum off your hands Aussie, if you're not happy with your Boss. 

Aussie wrote on Jan 28^th, 2024 at 7:24pm:

Did he promise to bake you a cake?

https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/shared/

'Stellar business" price:

US$ 5 per month = US $60 per year.


50 GB SSD.

Aussie. You always hark on about all the evidence needed on PM's sent to you, etc. Knowing full well, that PM's won't be posted by you or anyone. Personally, I think the majority of the times you base your cause on PM's containing the 'evidence' and proof - you're full of shyte.

Aussie wrote on Jan 29^th, 2024 at 6:04pm:



Not really Aussie,
you said you had the goods on Aggy and Monk about scheming to use the same account here
but you posted no evidence.   

Aussie wrote on Jan 29^th, 2024 at 7:00pm:



Really? -
I thought they challenged you to post it?
It was in the public domain - posted at Monk's dump.

Look Aussie. You do it all the time. Magic PM's with Magic Evidence - none of which see the light of day, so why hark on about em all the time?
You know FD won't give permission to anything of the sort, so again - why hark on about it?
It's never happened and never will. But over the years you still go on about them 'as if' they matter in the argument.
You're basically sounding off on a Clayton's card in your hand that's going to win it for you. But there's nothing on the card, because it never materialises.
Until you can 'actually' post the PM, its probably best you just say nothing of the sort. It makes you look 'desperate' to convince everyone, when you know you can't.
C'mon Aussie - what sort of Lawyer were you?

Aussie wrote on Jan 29^th, 2024 at 7:55pm:



Didn't you think he was pulling your leg?   

Jasin wrote on Jan 29^th, 2024 at 8:24pm:



FD was just having a lend of Aussie and
Aussie took the bait.   

freediver wrote on Jan 29^th, 2024 at 9:04pm:

Aussie wrote on Jan 29^th, 2024 at 9:38pm:



You know -
sometimes when people ask me personal questions that they have no right to ask me
I tell them a bullshit story too -
rather than tell them that they shouldn't ask that.

Prove it Aussie! Post the PM's.