11.19.06
Infrastructure change
I noticed that my site became slower and slower during the last few months. So recently, I finally decided to bite the bullet and transfer my blog to this new hosting provider called Bluehost. This is not an easy transfer as I need to use the phpadmin to export all of my wordpress blogs from my old provider and then imported into the new mysql database on this new hosting site. It took me a while to figure out the process as this is not as simple as FTP all files over. Now everything seem to be in place, I can get back to blog more…
I found Bluehost’s server to be fast, SSH enabled and provide a lot of open source tools that I can quick install and use. When I performed round trip testing from various global locations to the old site, I used to get close to 5s - 9s of round trip time, now the delay drops to between 1s - 3s. A much better performance. I guess my previous assumption that cheap hosting providers are pretty much the same is probably wrong, but during this process, I did find a comparison chart on hosting providers that is quite useful.
