I’ve been blissfully ignorant about self-hosted blogging. With over 250,000 hits per month, shared hosting services consider me to be a heavy-hitter. I have a new appreciation for my old service, iPower, for allowing me to use so much storage and bandwidth for so long.
I’m on Bluehost now, which runs a customized version of Linux that does something called CPU throttling. So if my site gets too busy, it’s automatically taken offline for a while. I don’t disagree with this approach, unless the servers have too many sites, and they’re robbing Peter’s site to service Paul’s site.
I have a few months before I have to decide whether or not to renew on Bluehost. It would be a big, and expensive, step to move to a hosting service that offers Virtual Private Servers. Once again, circumstances are forcing me to contemplate why I’m blogging, now that I’ve done everything I set out to do with it.