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JayceOoi.com on UptimeRobot
Monitor Is Down: JayceOoi.com (http://www.jayceooi.com)
Hi,
The monitor JayceOoi.com (http://www.jayceooi.com) is currently down.
Alert Details: No Response From The Website (The server that the website is hosted on can be down)
Uptime Robot will inform you when it is back up.Cheers From Uptime Robot
I received this email when JayceOoi.com was down yesterday 7:23pm. And received another email below at 7:50pm.
Monitor Is Up: JayceOoi.com (http://www.jayceooi.com)
Hi,
The monitor JayceOoi.com (http://www.jayceooi.com) is back up.
Cheers From Uptime Robot
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Err… I hate HostMonster Web Hosting. JayceOoi.com was offline for 2 hours today during lunch time. HostMonster support team was doing something to fix the issue. And don’t want to let me know the issue that they were fixing. But why sign up HostMonster Web Hosting then? Well… I have been using HostMonster Web Hosting for 2 years. I did face several downtimes. But there downtimes were less than 10 hours in 2 years (there might be some downtime that I am not aware).
JayceOoi.com site performance from Google Webmaster Central
Okay… I would like to thanks HostMonster support team for speed up my blog ~ JayceOoi.com. I am doing research to improve blog loading speed since Google implemented website speed as one of the factors in search ranking algorithms. I use WebPagetest to test blog loading speed. I got around 15s load time for first view previously. And got it below 8s after this maintenance. Check out JayceOoi.com web page performance test result here. So what are you waiting for? Sign up HostMonster Web Hosting to speed up your blog performance and improve your ranking in search engines. 
Is web hosting with dedicated IP address better than shared IP address?
23 Feb
Posted by spBlogger as Blogging tips
Shared IP vs dedicated IP… Do I need dedicated IP for my blogs? That’s the question that I asked on July 2009. And I got myself a dedicated IP in the end. Thought of lot of things back then. SEO, traffic, search engine ranking were the factors that I made the purchase. Does it really help in SEO on improving my blogs traffic?
What is a dedicated IP?
You will get 1 unique IP number for your web hosting account – your primary domain. For my case, 70.40.213.222 is the dedicated IP that I own. When you type 70.40.213.222 into your web browsers address bar, it will route you to the main domain which is JayceOoi.com.
What is a shared IP?
Most of the websites have shared IP addresses. Depend on web hosting provider, 200 to 300 websites sharing the same 1 IP in shared web hosting package is normal. Some have less than 100 websites sharing 1 IP.
Who need a dedicated IP? What benefit does dedicated IP bring?
- Having your own Private SSL Certificate.
- Anonymous FTP.
- Access your website with IP even when the domain name is inaccessible.
Okay, there is lot of myths about dedicated IP on SEO. Some said it did improve Google PageRank and search engine ranking while some denied. I saw some blogs which rank higher in Google does have dedicated IP when I purchased it last year. It is just USD 2.50 per month for dedicated IP. Can’t you earn that back with your blogs? I asked myself. After using dedicated IP for more than 6 months, does my blog traffic increased? YES. But I did lot of other SEO optimizations too. So does dedicated IP really help? I don’t know…
Will you purchase dedicated IP for your blog?
Boost up your WordPress loading speed ~ use WP Super Cache plugin
08 Nov
Posted by spBlogger as Blogging tips
Does your blog have lot of Digg or Stumble Upon traffic hits? And your web hosting cannot take that hits and crash. Fear no more. WP Super Cache WordPress plugin comes to rescue.
HostMonster CPU Limiting Factors (Throttling)
Some said that HostMonster CPU Limiting Factors (Throttling) data is not accurate. I tried WP Super Cache for 1 day. It does reduce CPU usage a little bit but not much. Why? My blogs don’t have many hits from SU and Digg. So far, I only got around 80 cache pages. Let’s monitor when I get more traffic hits.
Download WordPress plugin ~ WP Super Cache here.
Website loading speed is very important. Nobody likes to wait long for a website to load. Therefore, a good hosting is a must. And you need to have supportive team from them too. Else it will take even longer time if your hosting have problem.
My friends told me that my blog was slow during loading. I tested myself and discovered the same issue ~ slowness like “waiting for www.jayceooi.com” for 10 to 20 seconds. Then the website started to load. How to improve the loading time then? Check your hosting server status is the first time that you need to do.
Server Status
As you can see, there is alert on server load ~ Box under heavy load — you may experience degraded system performance. You need to contact support team if you continue seeing this message. Else your website will be as slow as turtle.
Service Status
Another thing to check is the service status. All of the services should be okay most of the time. A good hosting will rectify any issue occurs without us inform them. However, I did face problem with my previous hosting company. I need to contact them to bring up the SQL server myself. And they don’t even know that that SQL server was down. What a joke… By the way, my hosting support team solved the issue before I report it.
Finally, be sure that you select a good web hosting like I did. I am using HostMonster. How about you?
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