A new day... a new host

[susandennis]

Well, my web host - the one I got just three months ago - has just turned into too much of a hassle. It's time to move on. I started looking last week when I first got whiff that my current situation was going south...

I keep my images on one host, my main website on another one and my asp book database and journal pictures on yet another. All three together are only $20 a month and give me a lot of flexibility and a shit load of storage and I like having the availability. They also now all have their own domain name so swapping around is easy peasy and involves no coding. Just take the pages, images, databases, etc. and plop them on the new host. Repoint the domain name and 24 hours later, I'm kosher again.

It's a cut throat business, web hosting... I sure wouldn't want to stake my livelihood on it.

Waiting now for the new hosting company to send me the account details so I can upload and redirect.

Comments

[estis.livejournal.com]

Hope your new web hosting site is a good one. I am on my third one now...the first 2 were "mac" sites...just call me dumbass for that. My new one http://www.featureprice.com seems good so far...5gigs, can add 4 more domains there plus subdomains, webusers etc. Way more than I need at moment...will be putting a second domain there if I can ever come up with a new name I like (without cats in it lol)

[susandennis]

I actually looked at featureprice - I think you may have mentioned it when you first signed up - it was on my list from somewhere. I ended up with Hostabox. We'll see... I only signed up for 3 months so far...

[pheon.livejournal.com]

Susan: Are you moving only hosting? I.e., does your domain registrar stay the same? So many of the hosting companies I see seem to want to do the domain registration bit, too.

I haven't done much of anything yet --- have a domain name parked at one registrar pointing to a free page on my ISP.

[susandennis]

NO NO!! The only religion that I strictly observe is the NEVER-Register-Where-You-Host Religion. That was one lesson I learned early!

I actually use two different registars as well (are you seeing a pattern here?). I have one domain name (and my mom's domain name) at Dotster and the other two domain names at DirectNic.

So when I change hosts, I just go to Dotster or DirectNic and tell them to now point the domain name to the new host. (FYI I do like DirectNic better than Dotster - it's easier and faster to deal with... But, I'll probably always keep at least one domain name somewhere else. Just for safety's sake.)

I haven't run in to any problem doing this. I think maybe what you are seeing is hosting companies that offer to register for you - as a convenience. When I sign up for a new hosting company they send me the DNS info when they send the account name and login info. These days

[pheon.livejournal.com]

Ah, good. Yes, my inclinations are always to keep whatever greedy fingers are after my money as separated into different buckets as I can.

It's not that I don't trust them. It's just that I don't trust them....

[susandennis]

Oh I think they are all very trustworthy as long as you don't trust them!

I really do think the registars are ok and the hosting companies mean well but...

well ...

[henare.livejournal.com]

verisign, as a registrar, sucks.

i've been using an opensrs reseller (for registrar) and have been very happy!