Slhost switched data centers and began the nightmare that I call hosting.  I have a VPS with them and they were increadible hosts.  I even blogged about them twice . . . without affiliate links!  That goes to show you how happy I was.  But, the party is over.

I got an email on Sept 5th that stated

Great News! We have just completed the migration of your VPS to the new Data Center.

In order to do this we had to change the IP addresses assigned to your VPS. To find the new IP addresses that were assigned to the VPS please go to:

Now, it can be debated that finding out that the IP of your server has changed is great news or not.  It is widely believed that one factor in search engine rankings is longevity on a server.  A new IP looks like a new server to search engines.

But, if that were not bad enough, the server does not stay up more than a few hours in a row with no explanation from slhost.

To the left you see a screenshot of the tickets I have put in since the nightmare began.  What this does not show is that several of these tickets contain several reports if my server being down and my inability to restart it.

Starting today, I will give you, my uninterested reader updates on the horrible uptime of my server since slhost moved data centers.

I recently started using skype and the next time I opened Firefox there was a Skype Firefox Extension installed!  I did not even know what the skype firefox extension did so I started to hit the google to find out and all i found were other people who dont know how the extension got installed in firefox!

I am now uninstalling the skype plugin for firefox and I will never know what it was supposed to do.  Pretty sneaky i say!

If you are running your online business out of your house you need to get one of these free household budget worksheets. Earning a living in the online game has a cost and even if you are not doing ppc marketing, there are still domain registration, hosting, and advertising fees.

Also, you can now deduct lots of things from your taxes if you track them and detail the expenses. But no business can prosper without a plan.  Do yourself a favor and get a free budget spreadsheet and start figuring out exactly how much you are making and what you need to get to the next level.

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I swear I would host a Christian site with dreamhost in all but the biggest sites.  I have a few sites that I have to have my own server for.

My server has recently been moved to a new data center and the bugs have not been worked out which has caused me down time in the last few days.  How bad has it been?  Can you tell according to this graphic when my server went down?

I used to have a Christian Webhosting company.  My philosophy was that people could host on my servers that had no porn and they would be keeping their money in the Kingdom.  The problem was that all support had to be outsourced and it was not possible to find a Christian support company.

I had to close down because it is impossible to compete with the big hosting companies.  I now have my own server and have accounts on public mega-hosting company servers.  In my opinion, Dreamhost is the best deal and the service is great.

You can see all the benefits by going here.

If you sign up I have negotiated a discount for Christian Affiliate Marketing readers using the code “ChristianHosting.”  You will get a free domain and $25 off your hosting. Such a deal.