SEOHosting.com Server Performance

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Scutter

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Anyone out there using SEOHosting.com? It's part of Hostgator. I've had no problems with them over the years and have generally been really pleased with the service and support. But over the past two weeks, I've noticed serious degradation in performance on the servers. I've got other sites hosted on dedicated HostGator boxes and they're fine, but the SEOHosting ones are sucking wind.

Contacting support hasn't turned up anything useful. anyone else seeing anything here?
 


I had several performance issues with them, they moved me to a new box, and two weeks later the problems resurfaced; their support people were useless until I escalated to shift leads, which was a pain in the a**. I'd try someone else.
 
I escalated the issue to support and they instantly blocked access to all my sites (over 100). They wouldn't restore access until I had gone through each and every site and added Super Cache to each and upgraded to the absolute latest version of Wordpress. This was even for the sites that got less than 10 page views per day. I bit the bullet and spent the bulk of last weekend doing just that. But now the sites are still slow as shit to respond.

I'm hesitant to contact support again because they were trigger-happy last time and I was out of business for 4 days. But I'm loathe to move over 100 web sites to a new host.
 
Just from my experience, you're not going to get anywhere trying to work with them. Customers are just a commodity to them and they really don't care.
You'll pay more, but a full-service host will move all your sites over for you and work with you to make sure they're all functional and working like they should. It's a pain and more expensive, but the amount of time I spent trying to get SEOHosting sites working flawlessly, and the amount of time I spent screwing with their "support" people - make it a no brainer for me. It costs more for fully managed, competent hosting, but it's worth it.
 
So HG just screwed me again. One script one one site on one server, and they yank access to the entire network. Got a nice automated phone call, but it's been several hours and they still haven't white-listed my IP so I can get in and fix the problem.

Any recommendations on a new SEO Hosting provider? The key is getting someone who will help deal with the migration.
 
Scutter said:
I escalated the issue to support and they instantly blocked access to all my sites (over 100). They wouldn't restore access until I had gone through each and every site and added Super Cache to each and upgraded to the absolute latest version of Wordpress. This was even for the sites that got less than 10 page views per day. I bit the bullet and spent the bulk of last weekend doing just that. But now the sites are still slow as shit to respond.

I'm hesitant to contact support again because they were trigger-happy last time and I was out of business for 4 days. But I'm loathe to move over 100 web sites to a new host.
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I wouldn't blame them on this. If you have 100 Wordpress blogs and you don't even have caching on them, you're putting so much stress on the server. But then again they shouldn't have blocked your access
 
The 100 blogs were spread across 15 servers. And most of the blogs get < 10 hits per day. These are just link farm sites. We're not talking really heavy load here.

I already had W3 Total Cache installed on the blogs that got more than 100 visits per day, so really they were just forcing me to go through a pointless exercise most likely because they were following some protocol/script.

Anyway, I'm done with them. Just need to find a new host.
 
Normally 100 installations shouldn't really create a heavy load like this with caching enabled. Do you use any plugins notorious for extreme CPU usage, like "All in one SEO" or any kind of related posts plugin? Did you deactivate wp-cron firing each and every time someone visits a site (default)? Do you use loads of tags?
 
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