Wyatt Preul

Site Moved from ASPnix Host

Last night I completed moving my site to a much faster and reliable one. Previously, geekcowboy.com was hosted by ASPnix. This experience was an okay one. ASPnix has an excellent price tag for what you get. Unfortunately, the old adage that what you pay is what you get is true with ASPnix. The site, for example, would be unavailable far more frequently than I am comfortable with. Also, because there are so many other sites running on the same servers I felt like my site was a little too clunky.

If you are interested in checking speeds you can hit wyattpreul.com, which hosts the same content that is on here, only it is still at ASPnix. I am keeping this up for a few days to make sure that I get everything copied before totally disconnecting service.

Another nice advantage to the move is that my new host uses DotnetPanel instead of the helm for their control panel. DotnetPanel has a more intuitive interface in my opinion. Additionally, the fact that I can backup and restore my databases inside the control panel is wonderful. More than that, it can restore a database that is inside of a zip package, without the need for me to unzip it first.

One flaw I did notice with using DotnetPanel was with editing xml config files, such as the communityserver.config file. After I edited this file through the DotnetPanel interface the formatting in the file was broken. This caused me to have to re-upload a fresh copy just to get the formatting back to normal.

All-in-all I am very excited with this move!