I ended up buying another mediatemple GS account, which will be dedicated to handling just imwiththeband.com as currently it’s among 20 odd domains on another GS account.

The saga is over for now………….

You want to be able to flick your website to another host whenever you want. If your hosting company goes sour and they are preventing you from moving the domain away from them you are stuck.

I’m surprised you had trouble with MT. How much traffic do you get to that DV account and did you look to see what scripts were slowing you down? MT has the best tools out there to catch slow scripts.

By the way, the “Notify me of followup comments” email that your blog sends out is blank, even the sending user and subject are blank. I assume they come from here anyway since everytime I’ve received one there’s been a comment here and it’s the only place I’ve checked the followup box on recently.

Since tweeting this blog I’ve had all sorts of suggestions as to what to do, most of them would have me hosting with $4.95 a month grid plans which is just not going to happen.

Anyway, I think I will make my decision slowly as I don’t want to end up in a worse situation.

I’ve had a few smaller issues aside from that, but nothing serious and the service and response has always been quite acceptable for the price they charge. Their shared servers can be a bit slow to respond sometimes though.

Rochen though any problem I have always seems to get answered immediately by someone who knows everything about that topic, they always provide warning if there is going to be any downtime, quick response to issues, very knowledgeable staff, from memory I’ve had a total of about 1 hour down time in 3 years with them (that I am aware of). I have also never had any speed issues with them. I was quite impressed to find how strictly they control server loads to ensure that one user can’t slow everyone else down, on both their virtual managed servers and shared servers. They certainly aren’t the cheapest provider, but they aren’t expensive either and are well worth the price they charge.

I feel your pain, I’ve been through it that many times too. I have to say though, since I’ve been dealing with Rochen I’ve actually found that their service is impeccable. I have logged many issues with them and have never had to wait more than 10 minutes for a response at any time 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

I have also been dealing with Hostgator a bit more recently as a cheaper alternative to Rochen for some of my less demanding sites, and their service has been excellent too. Their response is usually within 15 minutes 24 hours a day 7 days a week, but the initial response is not always as helpful as with Rochen. I’m quite happy with it though.

I’ve not tried either of their site moving services to be able to comment on them, but based on their service in every other area, I would be surprised if it is not a relatively smooth process with them, especially Rochen.