{"id":173,"date":"2017-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/website-hosting-challenges"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:52:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:52:56","slug":"website-hosting-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/03\/website-hosting-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Website hosting challenges – SQL Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I appreciate everyone\u2019s patience with SQLHammer.com<\/a>. It is encouraging that you are reading this instead of seeing a Cloudflare<\/a>\u00a0error message, a site that does not load images and has a bad SSL certificate, or my maintenance page.<\/p>\n

Over the last 8+ days I have had a lot of challenges with hostmonster.com<\/a>. They were my hosting provider for about five years. My loyalty was mostly due to laziness and lack of web administration skill. They were always underwhelming and I had issues with the performance that I was receiving. Support was never good but I had few reasons to call support. Last week the final nail was put in the coffin and I have migrated over to 1and1.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It all started when I tried to purchase a dedicated IP and an SSL certificate from Hostmonster. This change immediately brought my site down and I was told, after money changed hands, that DNS propagation would take 4-48 hours. You read that right, 48 hours! Had I known that before purchasing I probably would have done something, anything, to prepare for an extended site outage. Either way, 4 hours went by, 48 hours went by, and my site was still down. Three support calls and demanding a refund of my web hosting fees was what it took before I got any real answers about why things were broken.<\/p>\n

That same night I began my move to 1and1. Since then I have struggled. I didn\u2019t want to pay for someone to migrate my site because I had just paid a couple hundred dollars to Hostmonster that I do not expect to ever see again and I had to then purchase hosting from 1and1. Needless to say, there is a good reason that I am not a web developer. I fumbled my way through the migration process and today I believe that everything is complete. Now I just need to wait for DNS to propagate everywhere. Funny enough, my family and 1and1 can see my site but I have to use a host file entry to see it myself because something between my router, my ISP, and 1and1 is caching the Hostmonster and\/or the Cloudflare IP address.<\/p>\n

I hope to have things up and for everyone soon and hopefully my SSL certificate through 1and1 will be installed shortly, as well.<\/p>\n

Once again, thank you for your patience.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I appreciate everyone\u2019s patience with SQLHammer.com. It is encouraging that you are reading this instead of seeing a Cloudflare\u00a0error message, a site that does not load images and has a bad SSL certificate, or my maintenance page. Over the last 8+ days I have had a lot of challenges with hostmonster.com. They were my hosting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}