13th / 14th March 2017 Hosting status
At 6pm through to around 8:20pm on the 13th of March access to websites became intermittent. Mail services were maintained and unaffected.
I am adding this entry at 2pm on the 14th of March. Websites have become intermittent again because InMotion Hosting, the hosting company are running some unscheduled maintenance on the server. The issues seem to relate to the MySQL database which is a critical component of WordPress websites.
As we have had several instances of downtime on this server this year I have decided to take out another Reseller Hosting account based with 20i Ltd in the UK to achieve a better service. I am currently testing this hosting. The site you are looking at now is currently running on their systems. It is noticeably faster. I will be running some tests over the next week or two.
Depending on how quickly InMotion Hosting resolves the problem; anyone wishing to move to the new hosting (provided I do not find any reasons not to move) I can move you over in approximately 24hrs starting next week. (Week commencing 20th of March).
I will start to move those sites that do not have any email associated with them. In these cases other than the control panel area which most of you do not touch, nothing else will be affected. It will be transparent to you and your users.
For those of you with email as well, there are some changes you need to make at your end as well as the changes I need to make at my end. The changes will be managed overnight. I will work with you to make sure those changes are as smooth as possible and documented so you know what to do.
The new hosting appears to have a number of performance and monitoring advantages over the previous ones. Mail boxes can be up to 10GB and it will support IMAP. The hosting can be blocked to certain countries, which is a premium feature. This can be controlled too. Most threats originate from Russia, Ukraine and China. So you can prevent these countries from accessing your website.
More to follow on this. If you want to move early, let me know through the usual channels, otherwise I will contact you over the next 8-12 weeks.
If you think your site is currently affected by issues in the hosting please check this website. If you see res154 in the list of servers this is why.
Hosting Status Page
(For US based hosting only) http://status.inmotionhosting.com/