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What is the long term strategy for dealing with Spamhaus?

I'm still waiting for my VPS to be delisted from Spamhaus - and now they have "accidentally" disabled their own delist (captcha) page so I can't even submit a request myself. This is borderline criminal...

1 Answer In: Email By: chrisV2 [5 ]

What is the best way to coordinate moving a site (internal)?

I opened a migration request and specifically said "please let me know when this will happen so I can let my users know." Next thing I know I get an email saying "your migration is underway please do not...

1 Answer In: MultiAdmin By: chrisV2 [5 ]

Any chance of at least getting a target date for completion of site copy?

I have a ticket open now for 24 hours and was hoping to work over the weekend on my site...looks like it's not going to happen. Could I at least get a target date for when my site copy (from a site5 service...

1 Answer In: VPS (Virtual Server) By: chrisV2 [5 ]

What are the key (practical) differences between Cloud VPS and ‘normal’ VPS?

Given a budget of $100 per month (roughly speaking) I don't know if I would select the "level 2" cloud VPS or the "level 3" normal VPS. Can someone explain to me the real-life important differences...

4 Answers In: VPS (Virtual Server) By: chrisV2 [5 ]

Yes, that makes sense Ben. Thank you.

How about dynamic workload or general capacity elasticity? Is there anything about the cloud solution that allows for real-time handling of abnormal peaks – say for example I were running a contest/giveaway and during the hour of publishing the results I have 1,000 people logged into my phpBB forum instead of the typical 100-120. A normal hosting solution would fail on memory or exceed the allowable concurrent mySQL connections.

Is there anything special about Cloud that would handle a blip like that? Or is it strictly enhanced hardware redundancy/fail-over?