After less than a month on Inmotion Hosting, we've decided to return to Hostgator. Hostgator's very occasional problems are no where near the issues seen at Inmotion this the last month. Some were just domain name propagation issues that cleared up after ~24hrs. Others were more serious:
Aug 22 2014 ~1622 the entire West Coast server system went down and calcofi.com/new.data.calcofi.com were completely offline for ~30+mins.
Sep 02 2014 just the calcofi.com server biz150 was having MySQL error problems. After this problem was fixed, calcofi.com was really sluggish. After contacting tech support, they said calcofi.com was causing a significant resource load and our site was in danger of being suspended. I followed some recommendation reported in GTmetrix web site report to improve web page loading time. I denied access of certain robots that were hammering the site with search requests.
But even after streamlining our home page, the performance was still subpar so I migrated calcofi.com Joomla 1.5 to web.calcofi.com. Using a recent Akeeba backup of the Inmotion calcofi.com, I restored it to Hostgator. It was online quickly. I moved the downloads, images, files, & publications subdirs into the proper spots along with subdomain subdirs: datasd, new.data.
Sept 05 2014 - I changed the Hostgator site back to calcofi.com and changed the Inmotion site to calcofi.net. Subdomain changed automatically.
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