Published on 2006-05-25 20:02:43

I was reading this week a sad experience of the IdolBlogLive.com, as you may understand it's blog about the popular Amercian Idol ! Few days before the final, the blog have received a unexpected traffic which exceed the 3500 page views in an hour from about 500 visitors. So the hosting company, Surpass Hosting, switched the service off without any warning and refused to allow access even to retrieve files. Djslim, the owner of the blog, said that “The only way to come back online or to retrieve the files is to upgrade my account which costs $110.00 a month.”. Currently the domain is displaying the famous message "This Account Has Been Suspended".

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Shared hosting is certainly an excellent solution for new bloggers, but if you buy an account without reading the agreement between you and the hosting provider never come after something bad happen to your account and say I didn't know ! This is one of the major problem that new bloggers don't give importance and in the end find themselves in trouble. For example to deal with hosting providers such Surpass, you have to keep always a backup of your codes and database daily ! You download the backup and keep it available in case something happen.

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