Adsense Webhosting Disasters!
By: John Elder posted in Adsense
Hello good people!
Well it looks like another heat wave has smacked Chicago upside the head. It’s too hot to even walk one block over to the grocery store! I can’t remember a summer this hot here.
Today I want to talk about Webhosting and how incredibly important it is to building an Adsense Empire.
Most people don’t put a lot of thought into Webhosting. Most of the people I talk to simply go with a cheap host like Hostgator.
That’s fine for someone just starting out, but if you’ve got very large thick sites that get a lot of traffic, or a network of hundreds or thousands of thin sites; you need a more professional webhost.
I use Servint and really like them, for one reason…
Their support is quick and professional…and downright amazing.
Last week I added close to a thousand new websites to one of my accounts at servint. These were all thin sites, hand coded with php and html (not wordpress).
They didn’t take up much space or nearly the amount of resources that a wordpress site would take up (wordpress is a massive resource hog). But even so, the amount of traffic that the new sites started to generate quickly crashed my server.
I couldn’t even log in to restart apache (the web server). I was completely frozen out.
I pointed my browser towards the Servint tech support website and submitted a tech support ticket. Within 5 minutes or so the tech support guy had restarted apache and fixed the problem.
He then analyzed my account and realized that I was way over booked with sites for the hosting package I was currently on. After talking about it for a few minutes I agreed to upgrade my account to one that we determined would handle the load better.
Guess how much of a hassle the upgrade was… go ahead and guess.
None, it was no hassle at all. Within minutes the tech guy had done everything for me.
That’s amazing.
Last week on another of my websites that’s hosted on a different account (also at Servint) I wrote a blog post that was quickly picked up by social media sites. Traffic spiked out of control as several thousand people pounced on the site in seconds to read the article.
The server crashed.
I did the same thing again, pointed my browser toward the servint tech support website and submitted a ticket. Within 2 or 3 minutes the tech support guy had upgraded that particular account to a plan that was several pay grades higher in cost – but one that would handle the spike in traffic.
“This is gonna cost me a fortune” I thought to myself.
That’s when the tech guy hit me with a broadside. He said “I upgraded your account to the X package to handle the traffic. I put a 7-day timer on it so it will stay at that package for 7-days to handle this spike in traffic, then it will auto adjust itself back to your regular hosting package…
…we’ll call it a free trial” he said.
Wow!!! Do you have any idea how amazing that sort of tech support is?
I don’t want to be overly-dramatic, but this is our life and livelihoods here. If your server goes down, you don’t make money. Try getting that sort of support from any other webhosting company. Just try!
I’ve been around the block. I’ve been online since 1996 and I’ve used a dozen different web hosting providers, but I’ve never experienced anything that amazing. And that sort of thing happens all the time with Servint for everyone I’ve ever talked to who uses them.
Heck, with most webhosts I’ve used in the past; if you submit a support ticket – they may get to you that day, or the next day…sometime. And they don’t give out “free trials” when they have you over a barrel.
So take my advice, choose the best when it comes to web hosting. Choose Servint so that you can…
Keep on building!
-John Elder
The Marketing Fool!
