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The review of this web host was started by gorbachev on 2009-07-15 09:46:55:

A friend of mine has a situation with a site of his.

His current web hosting service is telling him his db is too large and threatening service disruptions, if the db is not brought to a more managable size or the site is moved to a more expensive service. The problem with this is that it’s so much beoynd the hosting service’s acceptable limits that it’s somewhat hard to bring it down below the limit. Obviously the hosting service neither told up front about the size limits or notified about the problem at the time the size went over the limit.

The db is 1GB+ and growing. The other metrics of the site are well within the limits of most (all?) shared web hosting plans. No big files hosted, traffic is moderate at best, no email hosting, etc.

The budget is limited…the site is not a for-profit site, so there’s no income. Which is why it’s on a shared plan at the moment.

What would you peeps say the best options would be? Cost is most likely the biggest factor, uptime less so, but obviously if the site is down 15 minutes every hour that’s not acceptable either.

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