We're Back!

With a new host! The company that I was hosted to (Host Excellence) stopped working with Blogger for some reason. After a month I finally made the plunge and changed over the site to a new host. Every year they get cheaper and provide more storage and bandwidth so overall, it's not a bad idea. This time I went with BlueHost and the setup has been very easy.

Actually I first selected a host called PowWeb. But to host multiple domains (I have three) and subdomains they made you go through server code to to do it. Now that in itself is not too bad - I'm no dummy. But, the documentation they provided was laughably horrible. In fact at one point, the documentation even says "sometimes this doesn't always work right. In that event you have to tweak the code a bit..." and "don't do this if you don't know what you are doing, you can really mess things up"! Ha - for something as basic as hosting multiple domains. Give me a break. My new host and my old host allow you set up domains and subdomains with easy-to-use menuing.

Changing a host is always a pain. You have to download all your directory structures to your computer (just to make it easier on yourself), set up the host, upload all the files, change the name servers on your domains (sometimes easy, sometimes hard depending on who your domains are registered through), set the new host configurations for multiple hosts and subdomains, and test. Then it usually takes 24-72 hours or so for the new site location to propogate on all the DNS servers around the world.

All this just because Blogger stopped working with my old host for unknown reasons.

But, we're BACK!