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This Hostgator thread was started by simonmom on 2010-05-14 23:22:29:

We are shopping for new hosting. I won’t say who we are with currently as that isn’t necessary. I have read lots of good reviews for hostgator but you never know if they are true or staged.

We have oscommerce as our store and have had no issues with that. We have our own merchant and do not want or need a gateway. We have always passed the PCI compliance security.

Currently our host has us on a full shared server for the database. As you all know, everything now is PHP - our store runs on MySQL. We have had problems with consistency. At any time during the day either our store comes back with Server not found or Server Timed Out, Server Busy or the pages take over 4 minutes to load. Then other times the pages only take 3 to 4 seconds. The problem is we cannot stay in business this way. We need someone that can guarantee us they have enough servers to handle busy databases. I have heard of cluster servers, we already looked at dedicated servers but honestly our store doesn’t make that much money. We are a small business and don’t want to have outgoing costs higher than income.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Kelly

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