{"id":9238,"date":"2015-12-02T22:10:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T21:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/?p=9238"},"modified":"2015-12-02T22:10:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T21:10:32","slug":"goodbye-hostmonster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2015\/12\/goodbye-hostmonster\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Hostmonster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello SiteGround.<\/p>\n<p>After 12 years of hosting with Hostmonster it\u2019s time to try something new.<\/p>\n<p>Hostmonster started off good but over the last few years they\u2019ve got progressively worse. I\u2019ve had enough of random unexplained outages, and extremely slow web page load times.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what it was looking like in November 2015. The left shows the response time with progressively more concurrent accesses and on the right the worst response times after testing at various places around the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/hostmonster-loadimpact.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"hostmonster loadimpact\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"hostmonster loadimpact\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/hostmonster-loadimpact_thumb.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/hostmonster-loadimpact-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"hostmonster loadimpact 2\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"hostmonster loadimpact 2\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/hostmonster-loadimpact-2_thumb.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: Hostmonster<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Site_ground_free_test_2015-12-02_t20_48_26.985117.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Site_ground_free_test_(2015-12-02_t20_48_26.985117)\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Site_ground_free_test_(2015-12-02_t20_48_26.985117)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Site_ground_free_test_2015-12-02_t20_48_26.985117_thumb.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/siteground_dotcom_monitor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"siteground_dotcom_monitor\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"siteground_dotcom_monitor\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/siteground_dotcom_monitor_thumb.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: Siteground<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>So it looks like is faster and more consistent\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope it stays that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello SiteGround. After 12 years of hosting with Hostmonster it\u2019s time to try something new. Hostmonster started off good but over the last few years they\u2019ve got progressively worse. I\u2019ve had enough of random unexplained outages, and extremely slow web page load times. Here\u2019s what it was looking like in November 2015. The left shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9239,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions\/9239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}