Sick of this host.

I’m so sick of my web host’s anemic memory allotment that I’ve finally decided to look elsewhere.  I’m not going to mention who it is (hint: =2), but 40MB of memory for a web platform in 2010 is just not enough.  Sure, I have unlimited bandwidth, 20 MySQL databases, 150GB of webspace, 2500 email accounts, 10 FTP accounts and on and on, but my single little WordPress install chews up 60% of the memory that I have.  That leaves me with ~16MB for any other project that I’d like to do…one of which includes a migration to Drupal.  I can’t test it, because I can’t import anything without choking on the amount of leftover memory I have.

I’m in the process now of forwarding a subdomain to a web host that I signed my mom up for over a year ago that is going unused.  It was going to be her online storefront for her B&M children’s store, but she hasn’t had the time to invest in taking pictures and whatnot to get things started.  I transferred her domain from ‘=2′ to InMotion Hosting almost immediately after purchasing due to resource inefficiencies.  I’m considering moving over there also.  They are a little skimpy in some areas, but have 256MB for their shared hosts.

In the meantime, I’m probably going to just fire up Uniform Server and do some local testing until ‘=2′ takes its customary forever-and-a-day to do its DNS updating voodoo.

I wish I had known more of what to look for when I went to find a hosting service, but hindsight is 20/20.