Switching To A New Web Host

Sorry for the long delay between posts. Believe it or not I've been putting a lot of effort into actually doing things lately instead of just writing about doing things. My last post said that I was thinking about switching to Wordpress. Well that I think is going to happen but now it's going to be in conjunction with changing over to a new web host.

I've used AMHosting.com ever since I've been making websites, along with a couple other hosts along the way. During that time I've found them to be very easy to work with and have reasonable rates. Over the past couple years though it feels like something has changed at the company. There's been more than one instance of mywebsite going down for a day and then coming back up a day later with no explanation or apology from the company. The latest instance of this occurred yesterday. I realized that two of my websites had been down for nearly four days and yesterday all of my email accounts associated with them went down as well. Upon contacting someone from AMHosting.com via their online chat, I was told that a tech would contact me through email or phone. My websites came back, but no one ever did contact me with any kind of explanation or apology again.

My websites might not be huge magnets for internet traffic but I am paying for a service and expect a certain level of reliability. So over the next couple weeks I'll be making the transition to my new web host. I'm going to try and make it as seemless as possible though there is bound to be some hiccups. Also during that time, posting will likely continue to be sporadic.

Wordpress

Just a quick update today. I'm considering switching over to Wordpress. I've used Google's Blogger to power I'm Not A Rat for the past year and I'm starting to feel the itch to move on.

There are certainly aspects that I like about Blogger. One of which is that all of my posts are saved not only on my web host but also on Google's servers. Should my web host go down, I've still got all of my content online and can easily just start feeding it through a new web host. I have nearly all of my articles saved on my computer as well but should the need arise, reposting it all through a new web host would be a pain. I've also been able to mask pretty well that this is a Blogger powered blog in that I haven't used one of their ugly templates.

Wordpress on the other hand would give me far greater levels of customization and allow me to do some things with the way articles are displayed that would help separate different subjects a little more easily.

I haven't made a final decision yet whether or not to go through the trouble of changing everything over. We'll see what happens.