I had a little web host problem
When getting a hosting plan for your blog, it is good to make sure you know all the limits and rules that the hosting company has. Ive been with the same host for over a year but ran into a problem that I was completely unaware of.
My allotted mysql database space was full.
For those that don’t know, Wordpress uses Mysql database to keep up with everything that goes on in your blog. Your comments, blog post, options, stats, and a lot of other info gets stored behind the scenes in your Mysql database. Right now, I have a shared hosting plan, I have about 4 or 5 blogs set up on that plan. Only 2 of those are blogs that I actively maintain, this blog and Jonzee.com. The hosting plan that I have includes an unlimited number of domains and databases. The catch? each database has a limit of 100 mb.
Well a little over 2 weeks ago, I went over that 100mb limit on both blogs. What happened then is every comment or blog post that I tried to make would just yield an error message. Everything was shut down. yea the blogs were still there and visitors can still read everything that I had previously written but I just couldn’t add anything new.
It took me a few days to figure out what was wrong and when I found out it was my database, I called the host to see if they could expand the size. I was thinking, I don’t plan on quitting my blogs, I don’t want to erase what I had already written so expanding my database has to happen. Needless to say, they told me 100mb is my limit and theres nothing they can do.
What do I do now?
Well thanks to a little post I remember reading over at Johncow.com, I decided to transfer my blogs over to a different host, that doesn’t have database size limits. so I spent the last day prepping, backing up, and signing up for a new host. Had a few problems transferring everything over but I finally got the blog back up and running on tophostingcenter.com’s servers. I only got this blog transfered over, still have to do the others but so far things are looking good.
My message to you is make sure you know what you are getting when you sign up for that hosting plan, I truly didn’t foresee this happening.
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June 5th, 2008 at 5:25 am
Before going anywhere for hosting you must know all the things about it. Coz without knowing you will face a lot of problems. if you are well known with all the things then it’s okay for over years..
December 12th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
better to ask from a web host specalist.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Peope don’t read the terms of service which should contain all that info. If people read the TOS half those overselling hosts would have complaints because of their 20% resource usage rules. Good luck with your hosts.
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:02 pm
There are very few web hosting providers which clarify on their pages how many mysql databases they offer for free for each web hosting plan. There are even less when we talk about disk space allocated to each database. We must be cautious with these matters. We have to ask before we sign up with one of those super fantastic web hosts. If we are not, we must be prepared to pay extra for features that with “thought” that were implemented and supported by our fantastic web hosting provider.
June 12th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
That’s a little more then just a tiny issue, web hosting companies are beginning to take their clients for granted - where really one minor slip up will lose your customer, merely because there’s so many other options that are more then likely better (Unlimited everything? yeah right.) Not to mention the support clients get from bigger companies - slim to none…
June 24th, 2009 at 5:50 am
Friend of mine also had the same related problem.. He is also searching for details regard that… If you come to know,inform it..