Suzi’s Blog

After a lot of thought I decided to transfer webhosts. I did move my blog yesterday and got in touch with my host to have my account cancelled, however the owner of Honest Networks gave me the option to pay later rather than now as I’ve been a customer for a long time. Weighing up the pros and cons I would much prefer to stay where I am and use my other hosting account for unrelated projects.

I’m not sure what makes me more happy. Don’t get me wrong, I am extremely pleased that I don’t need to downgrade or that I won’t have to spend ages fixing broken links and getting people used to a new website address… But perhaps even better than that is the trust put into me by a relative stranger.

This is such a relief – one less thing to worry about for a little while.

My webspace is up for renewal in January, and I have a difficult decision to make. Do I stay with them or do I move what I have to my free (it comes with my paid email address at no extra charge) host?

Here is what I’ve facing starting with what my present host (Honest Networks) offers and then what my free host (Runbox Web Hosting) offers by comparison.

Honest Networks – Runbox Web Hosting
DirectAdmin Panel – cPanel
10,000MB space – 200MB space
150GB bandwidth – 4GB bandwidth
3 MySQL databases – 5 MySQL databases
$30 for 6 months – free with my email

They both have a lot of other features besides those listed, but these are the main ones I’m interested in and so have focused on.

In a way it seems obvious that I should stay with my present host because of the space and bandwidth I’m offered, but I really don’t use that much of it and, if I combined the free host with another free host (ironically owned by the company that own my present host) then I could get away with “sizing down”. I don’t really want to, but money is an issue right now. Then again, it’s a big inconvenience to haul everything from one place to another…

I guess I have a month to figure this out. *sigh*

I just want to make a quick post to give a big thank you to my sister, Cat, for giving me an idea that you might notice I’ve implemented on my blog. She was telling me that when she writes a long post that she puts in a cut so you click a link to read more. I thought this was a great idea and thanks to her mentioning it I found out it’s a feature that my blog can also have, I’d just never noticed it before!

You may notice on some posts that at the bottom there is now a link you can click to read more of the blog entry. If you think the title and the introduction sound interesting then please feel free to read on (you can also see the full post by clicking reply and then scrolling up), however now it’s more of a choice to view the insane amount of text and pictures I may upload.

I won’t be doing this for all my posts though… Some I feel warrant it because they’re quite wordy, but ones with a few shortish paragraphs aren’t long enough for me to think it’s worth doing.

Anyway, I hope you all like the change and another huge thanks to the best sister in the world!