…to a new hosting company…for my websites…. (sorry if that’s anti-climactic!)

I’ve noticed uptime problems with my website. It’s pretty rare, but frequent enough that it’s bothering me. Originally, I was just dealing with the issue – I wasn’t aware you could domain transfer easily. Back in the day, domain transferring wasn’t common. Most hosting providers kinda “locked” you in with your domain. But that’s not how it is now (I just wasn’t aware of it).

So I’ve moved horderockcafe.com and kotobishoujo.com’s domains to a new hosting company, from IXWebHosting to MediaTemple. MediaTemple has served me well recently regarding some work things and I’ve been pretty impressed with them. I’m going to gradually transition my products over. First domains, and then hosting all together. I can simply have the nameservers point to my old hosting until I’m ready with the content on my new servers.

Hm. Looking at domains, I pay $75 for 5 domains with IXWebHosting. $7.50, $7.50, $20, $20, $20 oddly enough. That’s going to change to $60 ($12 each) for 5 domains.

But hosting currently costs me $131 (yearly), down from $144 a year ago and $151 before that. This new hosting will cost $200 (yearly). But I think that $70 is worth it if my site’s uptime and speed increases. I am a web developer after all and I use my websites quite enough for the $70 difference.

Anyways, that’s my plan! Hopefully I can get rid of all the hosting companies that have disappointed me in the past: GoDaddy, Brinkster, WebHost4Life, IXWebhosting (though it wasn’t terrible…).

Edit
ARGHHHHH!
I just purchased new hosting and migrated 2 domains over…and I realized…MEDIATEMPLE DOESN’T SUPPORT ASP.NET.
Which is kinda okay, since worldofwarren.com, seasaltfishandchips.com, and kotobishoujo.com use PHP. warrenshea.com is static and horderockcafe.com is asp classic…so it can be converted to PHP quite easily.

But what bothers me is that switching is going to prevent my ability to do ASP.NET…unless I do it locally, which I don’t like. Okay, it’s not a big deal. In the last 3 years, I’ve really seen and loved PHP…so I’ll stick with that.

okay. DRAMATIC EPISODE OVER.