I’m not a linux guru by any means. I can get around, use yum, install cpanel, and all that good stuff, but ask me to setup apache, php, etc. from source and I cringe at the thought. I’ve been hosting on dedicated servers for the past year now. In fact, I have 6 of them that do various things on the internet, mostly scraping data. Most of my sites available to the public don’t receive a huge amount of traffic or have big database back ends. In fact, most of my sites are simply landing pages. I’ve decided to start taking my landing page sites and putting them up on reliable shared hosting services. The reason being is for the past few days, my main dedicated box has been going up and down. I was told by my dedicated server provider that I was probably going through a DoS attack. After having to explain to them that everybody loves me and no one would ever do such a thing, I got them to look into the issue to find out my NIC card had died. After they replaced the NIC card it took over 3 hours for their router to begin to recognize all my IPs because the new NIC card had a different MAC address which the router didn’t recognize. All in all I was paying for advertising to a down server for probably 6 hours before I noticed it.  So basically, the reason I’m making the switch is pretty simple. I know with a decent shared hosting service, if the server goes down, a million people will want it back up. The second reason for my move is stated in a previous blog. Good luck finding all my landing pages on whois.sc if I’m using a shared host.