This post was written on May 20, but I delayed posting it to insure that my site was totally transferred over just in case execute hosting decides to come out of the woodwork and delete my files. I wanted to make sure I was totally switched!
Hey Everyone
Well Yesterday morning I was trying to figure out why I quit getting my database backups that I get daily. I usually get them about 730 in the evening but the last one I got was Saturday after I had deleted plugins and whatnot on the site so I was a little bit concerned!
As you know I have not been able to get any support tickets or emails answered that I have sent to Execute Hosting in over the last month or so – I needed my accounts combined, I was having some random issues. They also didn’t respond to any tweets,facebook messages, support tickets or wall posts.
Since I wrote a post in exchange for 6 months hosting and there were not any real issues I decided to try to stick it out since I am about half way through. I had been looking around a few places- basically what was holding me back is people want to charge an astronomical fortune to migrate sites! I had a couple of options in mind that didn’t though so that made me feel a bit better.
So back to that Database thing. I had started looking into it and I Had all of these red things that were errors…so I was like well hmm- I will try to get in touch with them. I go to their site and it was coming up as OOOPS and had STABLE HOST written on the page.
I figured maybe these two companies had merged or something, so I sent out an email but that isn’t the case .. I think from what I can gather Stable Host must have been execute hostings host? I really don’t know at this point. Also the twitter from execute was last updated 6 days ago – which was when I stopped receiving back ups. Not that they ever did anything but a bunch of retweets!
I tried to email them from 2 email address -to 2 different email addresses and they came back. I was like O.k I have GOT TO GET OFF THESE SERVERS!
I quickly looked around for an option that would get at least Autumn-Rain off and migrated – thankfully David just has got paid! I tried to also quickly ask around- I ended up getting A Small Orange to do it. They had a chat, a phone number,etc and that is stuff I never had with Execute. I Know that a few people I know have them so..it was also only $5
My only thing is- because Autumn-Rain & Southern Belle are not on a combined cpanel- A Small Orange doesn’t offer that service and I either need to figure it out/find someone or I will have to buy another plan to keep it-and it is up for renewal too and I haven’t decided where to go with it just yet
Thankfully I don’t think there was any down time and to the best of my knowledge I am on A Small Orange now as we speak.
Of course that would be the way it would go for me- been hosted by friends for 6 years and I decide to go on my own and BAM disappearing hosting company! Hopefully I will have smooth sailing from here on out!