During the first part of 2011 we had quite a rough patch of uptime due to issues with our hosting provider at the time VPS.net who seemed to be down more than up. At the present time we run on a large virtual private server, which handles the requirements of the 14 web sites we run. All these sites require different tools which means we can’t look at shared hosting.

After 8 months of poor performance we decided to shift our entire operations to Bitfolk offerings. We already have past experience with them as Peter (2E0SQL) uses them for all his business operations with great success, so we were sure this was a move in the right direction and as an added bonus it was slightly cheaper for better specifications.

By the first week of September the move was completed and the system has only had one crash since due to a large increase of users on one day causing MySQL to use all the available memory and swap and dive the rest of the system into a crash, hopefully we’ve now put steps in please to stop this from happening.

We’re currently running with spare capacity in case of increased load on the network or if we decide to launch yet another high traffic ham radio website! In the coming months into 2012 we’re planning on improving our backup systems and starting to look at single sign-on system so you’ll be able to login to all our websites with just one central account. This is still in early planning stages but hopefully have more news in the new year.