This subject was discussed at the London Meet and it does appear to be annoying and frustrating quite a few people, especially like as Bill has mentioned when attempting to post pics. The problem then is you have to start from scratch which is time consuming and you never know if it will time out again.
Lets be fair on this issue though. This is purely down to the Hosting Company Bill and Hayley have hosted the forum on. If, and i do not know this he has also placed the Splosh Shopping Cart etc on this same server then it is probable he would be losing potential custom. What everyone MUST remember is Bill and Hayley have no control over these issues except to give this company major bollockings.
From my own personal experience of Hosting Companies via the Wamchantelle and Messymercedes websites and also chatting to other people who run sites in one form or another most do not really seem to give a monkeys toss and will fob you off with excuses etc or pay for extra bandwidth and such. Its even worse when you are on a shared server such as Splosh.
Dedicated servers vary immensly in cost per month and some i have seen are in my opinion a downright rip-off, yes you have guessed it they are British Based
. Rip off Britain.
Wamchantelle ended up being hosted on an American based server and we had no problems at all and this was a dedicated server at a reasonable price compared to others.
Messymercedes is Hosted by a company in America also. This is a shared server and to date with over 140 sets of pictures and an enormous amount of traffic no-one has complained of access problems and we have no problems when doing admin work,updates etc. This company also Host quite a few of the most popular wam sites,both British based,European and American.
The cost is very very reasonable,virtually as much bandwidth as you require, the same company also does the billing service and can also supply and service a shopping cart and download store for any type of website.I also feel Americans appear to be more professional in the way they administer the hosting services.
I personally can recommend this company to anyone and if Bill and Hayley are thinking of moving Splosh to another company in the future will gladly give them contact mails etc. This company will also move the whole forum if required.
In the meantime dont hassle poor ol Bill and Hayley, everyone including them is getting the same hassle, i get pissed off as does Cede its not their fault believe me.
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