Paradox Servers Review
After a long hunt for a decent web hosting service I think I finally found it. Paradox Servers has been the fastest free web host I have found.
Above is a Google Webmasters Tools screenshot showing the speed of dmmcintyre3.co.cc. The average page load time was 0.8 seconds and faster than 91% of sites. Ok, it is 3 days old as of the time of this writing but it’s still great. They are even getting a new server soon (It’s on the way to the datacenter currently) so most likely they will get even faster! On the uptime front they had very little downtime in November when I switched to them from a slow host. There has only been one case of downtime. My site and paradoxservers.net were showing a 500 internal server error and it lasted less than 30 minutes. I’m not sure how long it really was because 30 min was the time between my uptime monitoring service’s checks. I know it was less though. They had not been open more than 10 days when this happened so they could have been just configuring something. I have not had any trouble since. The owner even will let you have higher limits if needed. I once asked for more parked domains and then got them for free. Support has been excellent. Overall I would rate this host 10/10
The 500 internal error was a “oops” moment on my part. I tried to restrict the memory usage of Apache in WHM only for it to blow up in my face. At least, I’m pretty sure that was the reason. The only other thing I remember is when we switched the PHP handler and we had to update the .htaccess files on everyone.
We also had some downtime for no apparent reason two weeks ago. Never did find out why, the error logs showed nothing. A quick reboot of HTTPD fixed the issue and the total downtime was less then thirty minutes then as well.
Other then those two very.. lovely.. moments, we have been rock solid.
Thank you for your review.
Ah, I remember now. When we updated to the new PHP version it killed EAccelerator and that killed PHP as a whole. We had to re-compile it to fix the issue. Curse my memory gaps!.
You are welcome, I’m glad you could tell what the problem was both times and fix it fast!