Recently, we shared with our readers some potential
hosts they might consider for their affiliate blogs (well, any blogs for that matter). As we read up on each, we became really impressed with eleven2, particularly with their level of offerings, decent prices, and promise of 24/7 technical support (their instant messenger is always “on”).
Last Friday we made the decision to sign up for an eleven2 account, and hoped to to do the complete conversion over the weekend. Dana diligently handled all the technical aspects of the changeover for the the contentrobot domain, related subdomains, DNS, and email and settings. Despite being in business for only 2 years, we certainly had a lot of data!
As suspected, there were bumps and bruises along the way. The most painful of the bunch, was unfortunately, email issues. Initially, it didn’t take us all that long to connect. But while configuring a subdomain, unbeknownst to us, we inadvertently blew up our mail database. We were out of commission (sending and receiving email) from our ContentRobot domain for almost 24 hours. Ouch!
Good news – email is back and stable! We are almost back to normal now, and most of our subdomains are live once again. Apologies to those who couldn’t reach the plugins: iWPhone and Google Website Optimizer.
So, if you are in the market for a new host, just make sure you plan for some downtime and occasional bobbles while getting back online. We have high hopes for our experience at eleven2, wish us luck!