I had all these blog posts in mind this weekend, but I think my brain sort of got overloaded with all the stuff I had to do for my site on the backend. Basically, I’ve been wanting to switch from GoDaddy’s hosting to HostGator, which I use for Wedding Decorator and have been happy with. I finally got off my butt to do it when GoDaddy charged me nearly $100 to auto renew for two years. So I had to first backup my site, download my files and upgrade my HostGator account so it could take unlimited domain names (the Baby package). I followed the directions of various blogs to get my WordPress files transferred properly to HostGator, but there were a few snafus — I initially put my files in the wrong folder, then it turned out an .htaccess file was blocking my images, etc. It took plenty of IM conversations and emails with HostGator’s tech support guys to figure it all out, but its all in working order now and I’m happy as a clam. And my site loads much faster at work compared to when I had my hosting on GoDaddy.
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Web hosting nightmare
I’ve been thinking for the last few months about moving Wedding Decorator to its own host, since its now got a bigger audience than this here site, plus its about time. Anyway, I’d been keeping an eye out for good options and the comments on a recent post on Patterico gave me a whole host of suggestions to investigate.
Well, the unimaginable has happened to Patterico — his webhosting company sold off his domain name, Patterico.com, and now he has to blog under Patterico.net. *shudder* Now excuse me as I cross off 1&1 off my list of possible web hosting services…
I really feel for him. I know what its like to lose your domain name (although I lost mine because my domain name registrar had a seriously old email address for me and I was overdue two years — who knew!). It sucks especially since he’s had some major outages the last couple of weeks, what with the increase in traffic because of the election. Patterico, if you read this, try out Apollo Hosting. They’re still within budget hosting limits and the folks at Web Hosting Geeks seem to love them.
For myself, I may end up going with HostGator. It’s a tad cheaper than Apollo and seems to have pretty good reviews. Hey, every penny counts, and if I can make Wedding Decorator a success, then maybe I’ll switch to Apollo.