Originally Posted by Sheldon Brown
P.S. anybody got any good recommendations for reliable, affordable "virtual server" hosting for a laaaaarge site with mucho traffic? Need at least 2 gb of space, current traffic is around 40 GB/month, also subdomains...
Reliable and affordable? Pick one.
My last web host went silent one afternoon. No one was able to even reach them by phone any more. I signed up with 1and1.com and had the whole site moved over in 20 minutes. (Admittedly didn't have to move 2 gb of data though...) Can't recommend those guys, except to say they have been OK for last 3 weeks.
For situations like this, maybe you could keep your site at 2 cheap web hosts. When one of them goes down, update the DNS registry to the other site. That takes about 5 minutes if you have your domain(s) registered with an independent company like Network Solutions.
Unless both go down at the same time...