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I changed my hosting company many times in the last 5 years. I will share my experience from hosting in my own home to ipowerweb, lunarpages, or bluehost.

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Avoid Blog Blocked in China Aug 3, 2007
How to setup a blog and not blocked by GFW in China? This is really a FAQ. To setup a blog is relatively easy. Not to be blocked is not that easy. I hope this is a complete guide to...
Setup a Blog like This? Jun 21, 2007
Many people asked me how to setup the similiar blog like this under their own domain and asked for price to setup a blog, and asked how much effort it needs. My most frequent answer was, go to blogger.com and...
Suggestions to Choose Hosting Company Jan 13, 2006
The question: Hi, Jianshuo I know you are an experienced website owner and your blog are very popular. I am in trouble in choosing the proper website host service, and what’s your website provider service? Could you recommend some web...
Professional Web Hosting Feb 22, 2005
It is prooven that professional web hosting like iPowerWeb is really better than the hosting environment at my home :-D and better than my previous hosting company. I was suffering for server down [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] at the...
Bandwidth Crisis - Part Two Jan 6, 2005
This is the second time I claimed the bandwidth crisis (the last one). This time, it is more urgent and more severe. The Data The problem to be a successful blog related to high traffic is the bandwidth issue. Here...
Reserve Every Byte Oct 22, 2004
This site is experiencing the worst bandwidth crisis after move to iPowerWeb. Today, as the 23rd day of Oct, I always used up 92% of the 40G bandwidth. With the current speed, the bandwidth will be used up around Oct...
Band Width Crisis Oct 14, 2004
I am experiencing bandwidth crisis. The 80G of bandwidth included in the IPowerWeb package is approaching to its limit. See the traffic increase in my previous months. Image in courtesy of IpowerWeb The bandwidth of this site for each month...
Speed Improvement after Switching Server Jul 3, 2004
I am happy that ionic breeze told me the loading speed of this site had improved. This is the first comment I received so far regarding the speed of this site. I also want to let you know that I...
Support Experience of iPowerWeb Apr 9, 2004
This is a series of article on the customer support I got from iPowerWeb during my migration of data from my old host provider to iPowerWeb. I am somewhat satisified with the online support service I got from the support...
Byebye CompanyCN Mar 31, 2004
I have said bye-bye to CompanyCN, the host provider for home.wangjianshuo.com in the last one and half years. I'd like to thank the company for providing services to this site, although I have to leave due to the stability of...
Sorry for Server Outage Mar 29, 2004
There are some problems with the comment system and the MovableType publishing system in the recent two days. I called CompanyCN, the hosting company I chosed and they told me a site on the same server with mine upgraded their...
Server Down and Up Feb 23, 2004
I hate to talk about it but I have to update about the technical difficulties in the last two days. The server was not accessible at around 0:00 AM of Feb 22. It lasted for about half day. Around 2:00...
Server IP Address Change Feb 9, 2004
I got a short notice from my ISP (CompanyCN.com) that the server has to change its IP address and I will update my DNS record (hosted at www.net.cn) to the new IP address. Since these two actions may not be...
Server Down Again Jun 25, 2003
I believe I am one of the most frustrated persons in the world now. The server goes down frequently. That is the reason you cannot visit the server in the last few days. Server down time I hope I can...
Resumed from the Short Pause of Service Apr 18, 2003
Yesterday, this website experienced short pause in the comment system. It is because of the disk of the server is full so cause the corruption of comment database on the server. Now I have rebuilt the whole MovableType sytem from...
Sorry. Server Down for 5 Hours Apr 11, 2003
I am afraid that some of you may experienced difficulty to access this site in a particular 5 hours. The server hosting this site might have gone down during the time frame, as you can see from the server uptime...
Server Change Caused Site Problems Jan 28, 2003
Below is the traffic graph of the previous days on Jan 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 (today) I can clearly see the decline of visitors to the site from Jan 24 to Jan 25 and it resumed on Jan...
Home.wangjianshuo.com Moved Out of my Home Sep 25, 2002
This is the quickest decision I have ever made in my life - apply a hosting service for my blog home.wangjianshuo.com. Why so urgent My site has been down for more than 24 hours. It is not acceptable for my...
Server Outage - My Home is Still Not a Perfect Datacenter Sep 24, 2002
My dear readers, You may not be access this web site from Sept 24 to Sept 26. This is due to the network outage at my home. The 48 hours is very hard for me. I made a somewhat stupid...