VPS Provider Which Handles Upgrades Well

Sep 30, 2008

I've decided to move from my current provider (which I have praised many times on this forum before) because I'm just not getting the service I expect.

I'm specifically interested in a provider who is able to upgrade a VPS quickly, efficiently and on time, with no excuses and without "forgetting" things.

If you have experienced more than one upgrade with a provider which has been handled exceptionally well, please point me in the right direction.

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ive got a one of my personal sites - (a fairly mysql heavy chat community that works on mobile phones aswell) and its running on a cheap dedicated server

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512mb ram
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now i never come close to using my bandwidth so thats fine.
but ive noticed when i had around 30 members online last night the server load spiked at about 3.5 so im wondering if anyone can suggest what would be the best thing to upgrade to reduce load.

im currently running apache serving the dynamic files and lighttpd hosting images on a different port. using php 4.4.7 with eaccellerator. mod_gzip is enabled in apache due to a need to reduce the size of pages as much as possible.

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Code:
Uptime:
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Memory Usage (MB):
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 495 487 8 0 70 176
-/+ buffers/cache: 241 254
Swap: 2055 63 1991

Disk Usage:
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/dev/hda2 7.7G 2.1G 5.3G 29% /
/dev/hda1 76M 20M 53M 28% /boot
none 248M 0 248M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda8 84G 22G 59G 27% /home
/dev/hda7 1012M 68M 893M 8% /tmp
/dev/hda6 7.7G 3.4G 4.0G 46% /usr
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We thank you for your patience and understanding with this necessary maintenance, as well as for your continued business!

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[url]

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'''''''''''''''''''

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