I wonder if serialized data might have had something to do with the new site “puking all over itself.” (Not relating to SimplePress, but WordPress in general.) I observed similar symptoms on my first attempt at migrating to a new dedicated server. See my post at https://simple-press.com/support-forum/website-tips-and-tricks/dealing-with-serialized-data-when-migrating-your-wordpress-site/.
If you’re looking for a good host, I can recommend Serverpoint. I have used them for years for shared hosting and colocation. My WordPress sites are on one of their Cloud+ VPS servers. All is running well. Great support there, too.
Good luck.
Brad, thanks for that info.
I was contacted by Tony in HG cancellations. We had a good conversation and he canceled the dedicated server and agreed that there was something wrong with it. He agreed to set me up a level 5 VPS to try out before committing to the service, great guy who really cares about HG’s customers.
Anyway to make a long story short, the fidosysop.org site does run on it, but it’s slow and sluggish. No where near as fast as the shared account i have with HG. After 24 hour propagation period it was barfing all over itself. Using all the memory and swap file space. I will be talking with Tony tonight when he gets in, but something is really crazy going on.
I did find out that all HG’s VPS accounts are now being migrated to Provo Utah to the BlueHost data center. I had told Tony your forums are on a Dallas HG VPS IP and that’s what i wanted, he then emailed me about the migration of all the clients being migrated and that includes you guys..
Meanwhile my site is propagating back to where it was before.
