Pretty much no one looks at old blog entries, that is not a major traffic problem. Anyway, our site is MUCH BIGGER than a little blog, and shared hosting solutions are far from ideal.

For example, we recently had a situation where the site where our nameservers are hosted was knocked offline for awhile due to a transformer blowing up. But since we currently have access to half the power of the dedicated server we are on, we quickly activated our own nameserver on our server saving the day for us. This nameserver will also be transferred to our new server, giving us additional redundancy. And since it is directly on our server it is pretty much guaranteed to be running as long as our server is running.

One last example is that Michael Anissimov is hosting his blog on a shared host for similar bucks that you are talking about. But when he had a huge spike in traffic (greater than that of KurzweilAI.net) they took him offline for a couple days saying he had exceeded his allowance for network connections even though he was well under his total allowed traffic limits.

Erm. Was this really necessary? I don’t know if making blog entries sound like paid advertisements is very good PR for a non-profit.