Kimler Adventure Pages (http://randsco.com)

Broadcasting from Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta - It took three days for Randsco staff to pack boxes and move their entire web operation from Houston, Texas, to Atlanta, Georgia.

For six days in June, Randsco web operations were beleaguered with problems at their shared, web-server host - SiteGround.com. First a hardware problem took a number of days to resolve, then a notice that the Randsco website was "consuming a very high percentage of the server resources and endangered the performance of [the] site and all the sites on the server".

During a follow-up interview, Randsco chief editor said, "We've reached a level where we demand more than a shared hosting company can provide."

Since June, Randsco has been looking for a new home and recently found one, on a dedicated Linux server sitting in Atlanta, Georgia (of all places).

"You should see the server loads now!" exclaimed Scott, after the move, "On the SiteGround server, it was common to see loads in excess of 10%. Now they're around 0.3%! This means a faster, more stable visitor experience."

"Heck, at SiteGround," said Scott, "we even saw loads exceeding 150%. How is that possible?"

Loading speed is one of the main benefits of the new, co-hosted, dedicated server. Other benefits include more control, avoiding overloads from poorly written scripts, no more capricious policy changes, loads of disk space and tons of bandwidth.

Grunting like Tim-the-tool-man-Taylor, Scott says, "Hey, Randsco now rocks! We're broadcasting from a brand-new, Intel 3.0GHz Dual-Core server having two - 160GB Serial-ATA Hard Drives, 2 GB of RAM and 1.5 Terabytes of bandwidth."

"Right now we're sharing the space with very few websites!" he explained, "Compare that with the 560+ sites on the older SiteGround server! If you shout on our new server, you have to wait a few seconds, then you hear the echo!"

"Good-bye SiteGround!" he said, waving his middle finger in a generally southerly direction, "We're happy to leave a shared host that thinks server overloading is directly related to the number of links on a page."

"We couldn't have made our move without the help of friends. A special shout goes out to ¥åββå and Whoo. Thank you!"

Although the Randsco move is complete, Scott indicated that there might be periodic disruptions, for the next month or so, until all the new server kinks have been ironed out. Ultimately, visitors will enjoy rock-solid stability and faster page download speeds.