After more than eight years with my former Internet hosting company, today I cancelled my hosting contract with them. Four weeks ago, I signed up with HostGator. Thanks Rebecca. Your are a very special friend. Your advice and insight were very helpful. 😀
I left my former hosting company over frustrations with their inflexibility. Three times I was told “We can’t do that.” Each time it was from a different department. All I wanted to do was drop a domain out of the package. That’s when I decided to bear the pain and fire them. Okay, I’ll admit to frustrations with technical support being provided from a different continent by people with strange accents. I could have dealt with that, but why?
I went with HostGator after checking out various options. They are based in the USA. Their sales and tech support staff are in the USA. I like that. They have been very responsive to my inquiries and requests. I give them two thumbs way up! Click the link in the right-hand column and check them out for yourself.
Blog Update
In March, I made the move from Blogger to this self-hosted WordPress site. At times, I have questioned my sanity in making that move, but I’m convinced that it was a good move for me. I recently found myself posting on a non-public Blogger site. It only took a few minutes to realize how nice WordPress is for me.
When I made the hosting move, I considered moving back to blogger. It is an excellent option for the hobby blogger. You have a lot of options open to you and hosting takes nothing from your pocket. I do miss the “Follow” function in blogger. For a variety of reasons, I have decided to continue using the WordPress platform on this self-hosted site. Your mileage may vary. 😉
My mileage may vary? I would have the whole thing driven into a ditch so quickly the odometer wouldn’t have a chance to turn a peg. Nevertheless, I am happy for you techie types who do all this neat stuff.
That’s what I meant by your mileage may vary. It’s not for everyone. For my part, I enjoy having my own domains. After the third or fourth e-mail address change in a fairly short period of time (changing service providers), I decided that having our own domain would solve that problem. Indeed, since then we have had the same e-mail addresses. And perhaps I do it just because I can. 😀