I switched hosting providers this week. After four years with WebHost4Life I've moved to Arvixe. It's not that WH4L was bad or anything but I've gone from a "promotional" $120/yr to $175/yr and that's just unacceptable. In addition they wanted to charge me a $10 renewal fee! I have a fundamental problem with any company that tries to reward repeat business by levying a surcharge. Add to that the fact that Arvixe charged me < $60/yr and that's all the excuse I needed to move.
The move went fairly smoothly. I had to first transfer the PalmerEk.com domain since I first set it up through WH4L, so I moved it to GoDaddy which took a day or two. I then signed up for my new hosting account and transferred the files I needed, setup my blog site and MX/CNAME records. The only problem I ran into was adding a "." to the end of my CNAME records. The Domain Zone Editor at Arvixe does that automatically so the actual record ended up with two ".." which effectively bounced all emails to the PalmerEk.com domain for the last day and a half ;-{ On the plus side their tech support was very helpful and responded quickly once I asked them for help.
I feel all clean now that I've moved since I dropped a lot of the sites I had setup over the years but rarely use anymore.... I've ditched my SharePoint, Wiki, Bug Tracking etc... sites and I'm left with only my blog for now. I'm sure I'll accumulate more crap again but for now I'm pretty bare bones and quite happy about it.
The Can of Change effort has stalled a bit this week in the wake of the move but I hope to get it up and going again with a fairly functional KindleZine.com site very soon.
TTFN
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