The All New Precision Effect Blog
December 28th 2008 by Childsp
Welcome to the all new Precision Effect blog. This will serve as an official source for most company news, announcements, hosting tutorials, and anything in between. We’re hoping to update the blog at least once per week with information at least some of you will find useful, whether it be new service updates or step-by-step guides to get the most out of your hosting account.
We’ve had many people ask about our new high performance LiteSpeed hosting plans and why we decided to drop failover. In short, failover is expensive. Without greatly increasing the cost of our plans, there was no way to continue offering it. Instead of raising prices in a time of economic recession, we’ve decided to switch our focus a bit.
With our new high performance LiteSpeed environment, we’ve increased the storage and data transfer available on every plan. We were able to lower our prices around $1-$2 per month from the previous (failover) cost. We’ve also raised the amount of domains you can host with us from 1 up to a maximum of 8. We feel that the new quotas will help our customers further develop their websites and businesses.
However, with the hosting market as saturated as it is, raising quotas is simply not enough. We’ve always made a commitment to stay ahead of the game and we’re doing it again with our new LiteSpeed plans. In addition to using LiteSpeed in place of Apache, we’ve thrown together a machine with better processors, more RAM, faster hard drives, and a RAID 10 setup for both speed and redundancy. This is what the first customer to get an account on the new server had to say:
“I have hosted on many many servers and I think I can honestly say this is the fastest setup I have ever seen. Its almost like the pages are cached…”
We hope to have some benchmarks up shortly so stay tuned…
P.S. – This blog is powered by our LiteSpeed hosting plans. How fast did it load for you? Leave us a comment.
Tags: LiteSpeed
December 28th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Comment #1 and hopefully many more to come.
December 28th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Thank-you for providing this blog! I have subscribed to the rss feed so I can keep up with the latest at Precision Effect.
I signed up for an account with you today, and I must say I was a little skeptical that I would notice much of a difference with Litespeed. But I must say the speed difference is phenomenal, and has been consistently that way all day. The Precision Panel is also fast and clean, and I like it far more than Cpanel.
I was also very pleased to have my account provisioned so quickly on a weekend. A support question I sent in was answered right away, also.
Thank-you for the great service.
Jeff B.
December 29th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Jeff,
Thanks for the comment and great addition to the blog! It’s very nice to hear you’re happy with our new LiteSpeed service and PrecisionPanel control panel.
Please let us know if there’s anything we can do for you.
Warm regards,
Steve
December 30th, 2008 at 4:07 am
Sweetness! It loaded almost instantly from NL, EU.
December 30th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Jasper,
Thanks for signing up to the blog.
Your comments are greatly appreciated!
December 30th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I have been with Precision Effect for over 3 years and I cannot say I have ever registered even a minor complaint. Top notch company with top notch support to match. Although my hosting is not ‘LiteSpeed’, my website still loads blazingly fast.
Thanks PE!