For years, my site has been run on shared hosting but the time has come to get more professional, especially now I have paying members to look after. So, I have taken the plunge an ordered a VPS (Virtual Private Server) account from Eurovps, who have come highly recommended. The move will mean greater speed, better reliability and enhanced security. It will also provide a fully scalable system which can grow with demand.
Europvs are handling the migration so I hope the process will be as painless as possible. I have asked them to give me an estimate if there is likely to be any downtime and I will let you know their response.
UPDATE: 27 Jan 2012
No news yet apart from a message telling me to change the DNS record at Servage, so I guess that is the final step. This has now been actioned and might take up to 24 hours to process. Fingers crossed that this is the final step t going turbo.
UPDATE: 29 Jan 2012
I think we are there, after a couple of little glitches. Everything seems to be running on the new server so I hope things will run a bit faster now.