Websiteness Once More
Posted 22nd February 2008 at 2:05pm by M1ke, tagged as Blog | Commenting Closed
I've finally given up on hosting myself on the Durham webspace - the servers are unreliable and seeing as it was free there was nothing I could do to make it better. It also didn't work with my domain properly, leaving my site in a horrible frame that made it all sluggish. So now you're viewing the real deal - a paid domain running on paid hosting.
I chose to use Hole in the Wall Hosting because $10 for 400MB for a year is amazingly cheap. I had thought that going with a larger company for more money would give me more in terms of reliability, then I remembered why I use open source software instead of programs form a large company and decided I'd apply the same thinking to hosting. How right I was proved, as I received a personal email from the owner within minutes of paying through PayPal (which itself took at least 10 mins, compare the speed of a company versus a dedicated individual once again) and then had a protracted email conversation as I tried to get various things working (the conversation was due to not knowing what I was doing, rather than the service being bad). So I've already got my $10 worth with the support on the first day and hope that my glittering praises can get some other people to sign up to a small independent host rather than a big corporate machine.
Finally one advantage of having my own system is that I can be more constructive with other sites, as well as better monitoring my own statistics. So once again I'm using Google Analytics to see all kinds of stats for free, publishing my RSS feed through Feedburner (so update those subscriptions!), and have begun to create the page that will become 1-Web for high-quality website design, creation, administration and consultancy. Finally the installer and latest version of this content management system will soon be available at http://1log.co.uk, so anyone can use my system free of charge to make their own website. These are exciting times indeed for the internet :D
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