Growing pains...webhost deactivated my hosting

I got word yesterday that my web hosting account was deactivated because.. well... I'm too awesome.

My site was crashing earlier in the week due to too much traffic, and then they deactivated it and said it was causing "mysql hammering" and was causing performance issues for users on the same server.

So, in a mad rush, I've had to quickly buy a VPS and begin the migration to a new server.. I've never used a VPS before, so this is all new to me. I didn't think I'd need to upgrade so soon, but I guess that's how it goes when you kick ass!

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It's quite a huge jump in expenses though, from $4.99 a month up to $150 a month is quite the growing pain indeed.

So a word of advice to you all... When your server starts crashing from too much traffic, don't think "it will pass"... start looking into what you're going to need very shortly and be a bit more prepared for it than I was.

Because I thought it would just blow over, I ended up with about 4-5 days of downtime as the VPS is set up and the site is transferred over as well as the domain and DNS..

This not only took down the site causing the problem with all the traffic, but all of the other sites hosted on my account as well, which is somewhere around 25 or so... So this caused me quite a stressful day yesterday, hopefully when this happens to you you will be more prepared.

Thankfully there's beer.