Manny - the site is SO much snappier now - good job!

Good luck with the new hosting company too...I know from past experience that it can be a real nightmare dealing with a poor provider. so far you are off to a great start!

Welcome to the new home of Stickist.com. Same home, different neighborhood.

The previous web host Ipower.com was terrible in its MySQL management on the server I was on. After months of dead ends with its tech support and elevating it to higher tiers of techs, I just got fed up. This site took forever to load at times, and other times, not even at all with a General Error message of too many connections to MySQL. Totally unacceptable as this site continues to grow and scale up re: users and content.

After folks here (thank you!) referring various web hosts and their feedback/expeirences, researching the various web host user review sites like Webhostingreviews.com, and the various web host company sites themselves, I chose Hostgator.com. Hostgator got excellent reviews and had the advanced features I needed. After starting an account, I've been testing them out with a mirror of this site and have been pleased with the load times and performance. Their data center is located in Houston, Texas. BTW, Ipower had really poor reviews on Webhostingreviews.com, mostly about the degradation in service over the years, which was my same experience.

So hopefully the new web host will work out well for us here.

Thank you all for your patience in putting up with the poor performance of this site for the last months! Enjoy the faster load times and overall significant increase in the site's performance.

~Manny

BTW: post in this thread, any errors, glitches or problems with this site as I work out the various glitches I haven't caught just yet with this site's migration.

Well, the site's been up on the new host for over 24 hours now.
I've been hitting this site a lot from computers and my Blackberry while on the road, just to check on load times. So far so good, it appears to load up much more "snappier" than before.

Anyone notice any lag of over a few seconds or problems with not being able to access the site with a General Error message about too many connections to the MySQL database?

For the folks outside of the U.S., how are load times for you? The datacenter is located in Houston, Texas.