Thanks to Shane and the Support Crew
I started with BODhost a few years ago after my previous provider's service deteriorated following a move to a horrid datacenter. I started with the plain-vanilla VPS, and then upgraded to a mirrored VPS.
Recently I decided it was time for another upgrade, as my business had grown. I only considered what BOHhost had to offer because my experiences have been excellent so far. After considering the options, I was leaning toward Cloud hosting. But I had some questions.
So I pestered Shane with a half-zillion PM's over the course of a week or so, and then decided to go with the Cloud. I selected the top plan, with the fault-tolerance add-on, because server outages are just about the only thing I hate about Web design. I also elected to do the migration myself as I had some oddball customizations that I needed to keep intact, kludgy as they may be, to keep certain features on some sites working.
The server was promised for yesterday, and it was ready before I rolled out of bed. I spent the rest of the day configuring the server (installing modules, updating PHP, rebuilding Apache, creating packages, and so forth), and finally moving my accounts. I ran into a couple of questions along the way, which BODhost support promptly answered; and by evening, everyone was up and running on the new server.
There were NO COMPLAINT from clients -- in fact, the migration went so smoothly that not one of the clients I called to ask if there had been any problems even noticed that anything had changed. It was that smooth.
And by the way -- the new Cloud server is so fast I have to wear a seat belt so I don't hurt myself on it. The old VPS was fast, but the Cloud server is FAST.
So special thanks to Shane, Sam R., Scott M., Alan V., Phillip S., John R., and anyone else who had any part in making this the smoothest server migration I've ever done.
Best,
Richard
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