Hi JD;

Thanks for taking an interest in the hosting costs I face here. If it is possible to achieve lower costs and better performance, obviously that would be worth looking into further.

However, I'm not sure whether your comparison with www.pjwine.com is on target or not. As you can see here:

http://www.statsaholic.com/poolforum...com+pjwine.com

both PF and Poolsolutions individually experience traffic averages during May, June, July and Aug that are almost an order of magnitude greater that pjwine's average traffic . . . and of course BOTH sites are hosted on this server.

Please keep in mind that the averages you see reflect traffic on inactive and unmaintained websites. Also, since all the traffic at PF is dynamic pages, many of which are actively changing, the CPU load is distinct from what might be experienced on a site with more static data. There is some reason to suppose that traffic will increase if I am, as the mods and I hope, able to actively maintain and organize the sites over the next several months.

And, as you know, moving the site to a hosting solution that was inadequate would be less than ideal, especially since my colo rates for a 4U server are very much 'grandfathered' and would not be available if I left and then tried to return.

Thanks again for your interest.

PoolDoc.

PS: This is a bit off topic for this forum section, so I'll spin this off into the Odds and Ends section.