Take a step back
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OK. First week over. Results not amazing. I’ve learnt quite a few things though and it’s time to take a step back and reassess the situation. I’ve paused all my PPC ads while I figure out my next step.
One thing I definitely have learnt though is that I need some more reliable hosting. Dreamhost is all well and good and it’s definitely a bargain for all that they offer but shared hosting means you’re at the mercy of God knows how many other users on the same server. On more than one occasion this week my sites went down because the load on the server skyrocketed - presumably because some other user was doing something daft like trying to calculate pi to a billion decimal places.
So I’m in the market for dedicated or virtual private hosting. Probably going to go for VPS in the States. Although I’d much rather have hosting here in the UK the prices just aren’t competitive. VPS over here seems really under-specced for what you are paying. The US hosting market is just more mature and has more economies of scale. Of course, the downside is the time difference can make getting support a right pain and because you’re relying on transatlantic internet connections there’s more that can go wrong. Fingers crossed it’ll all work out tho.
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