[GRLUG] Hosting ideas

[Michael Mol]

I run a site called Rosetta Code.  It's a fairly active wiki, with
around 500 edits per week and around 10,000 page views per week,
sometimes more.  Currently, the database weighs in at about 130MiB.

Combined the database size, my shared hosting account at Bluehost, and
my desire to do backups, and you get a problem.  See, this evening I
wrote a script that would run mysqldump on the database and save it to
my home machine.  Problem is, running mysqldump on that database on
that server* causes sites to start spitting HTTP 500 errors, and my
account gets suspended for a minute until the CPU utilization sliding
window passes.

* Bluehost has the MySQL server and Apache server on the same box for
any given account.

So I can't exactly automate it without taking down my site (and
possibly many others) each time.  I need to find different hosting for
Rosetta Code.  Preferably something that won't choke when I pull
100+MB of data out of the database every morning over an SSH
connection.

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