Is your hosting provided complaining about denial of service?

What do you do about it?

[blaze]

My hosting provider, website source, is constantly complaining that they are suffering from DOS everytime the system slows.

What do you do about it?

I am about to switch providers.

[microcars]

if your hosting provider is inexpensive and uses SHARED hosting,(one machine deals with multiple sites) then there is not alot you can do about it. You move to another host that uses Shared Hosting and the same thing can happen.

you should consider switching to a webhost that provides dedicated hosting that is separate from other domains hosted.

the Screensavers just did a repeat episode where someone had a similar question. But I think you are looking at like $99 a month for something like this to start.

[Raymond]

I am not really sure how hosting company can cover their cost by charging $90 bucks per month (consider if they are providing quality products/service). Some even charge as low as $45 bucks. I did some calculation with these numbers and the answer to this is: The server they give you and the service HAVE TO BE complete crap in order for them to make any money off charging such low monthly fee.

Imagine you go with $90/mo plan, they get $1080 annually. In 2 years, they get $2160, which ONLY barely cover the cost of a decent server. So what about their payroll? This amount does not seem to be able to cover expenses from regular business expense, techsupport, customer support, the quality of the bandwidth, and other equipments like OS, switches and routers...etc.

For them to make any decent amount of money to sustain such businesses, they have to be giving you a really crappy server, probably some desktop computer they bought secondhand from some household; most of their expense have to be concentrated on sales staff, which will leave very little room for techsupport and customer support.

If any of you guys running a hosting company think I am wrong, I would really like to find out.

[neo_brown]

Perhaps they can afford to offer such services because some of the sites on the same machine may not require much bandwidth at all, there for allowing others to use more than their fair share. There are plenty of inexpensive hosting companies that do actually offer quite good services, ofcourse you get what you pay for but when looking at the bigger picture its more accurate to say that if you share a server with 100 other sites then all of you get what 100 people paid for and if 90 of the other sites are not getting much in the way of traffic (imagine how many companies have sites just because they think they should have a site, they havnt optimised it and get barely any hits) then you could end up doing OK.
With regard to the original post, there is only one thing to do and thats move. Unless you do not think that your downtime is that bad (will you be able to justify paying more for hosting with the increase turnover?)

[Reflect]

Miss read, please ignore post.

[blaze]

$2160 for a server .. woah!

I think most large scale hosting companies pay no more than 300-400$ for low end servers.

When you buy en masse you get pretty good discounts.

ev1 for example has a 100$/month for a dedicated server.