Powered by glolg
Display Preferences Most Recent Entries Chatterbox Blog Links Site Statistics Category Tags About Me, Myself and Gilbert XML RSS Feed
Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 13:57 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Host Migrated



Nobody other than myself will get this bit of news for a while as the glys.com domain is being moved (takes 5-10 days normally), but it's finally done. Switching my web host was something I had earmarked for this holidays but might have again procrastinated on, had my now-ex-Host-That-Shalt-Not-Be-Named not prodded me into action:


The Straw Before Last

The last straw was the slow support response, but the relatively pricey plan for that US-based (and rather large) host were factors too. I was however still not looking forward to the possible hassle of switching, but after a brief Google search for local hosting companies something rang in my mind - I personally knew one of the proprietors of Vodien from both NS and NUS (in fact having just taken a common module last semester), and he was on my MSN list.

Cutting a long story short, I downloaded my entire site off my old host, and by nightfall I had also transferred my domain registrar from Network Solutions (can't say they have let me down, just that they were slightly overpriced too) to Vodien (S$20/year), and shifted my blog painlessly (rest of stuff to follow). Site hosting solutions have come some distance since the bad old frontier days of 1998, and for just S$8 a month, this is available:

  • 5GB of space (was in the paltry hundreds of MB range before, but surprise - I used just 16+MB of it!)
  • Unmetered bandwidth, with restrictions only if exceeding 10GB/month (unlikely with most images outsourced to ImageShack)
  • Perl, and also PHP and mySQL (I anticipate some fun fooling around with ImageMagick)
  • All the usual subdomain/email configuration options
  • Local 24/7 phone support (Yay, though hopefully I never have to use it)
Yes, maintaining a website is easier and cheaper than ever before.



comments (0) - email - share - print - direct link
trackbacks (0) - trackback url


Next: Changing Pains


Related Posts:
Changing Pains
Restarts and Reviews
A Matter Of Perspectives
Week In Review
Weekend B-activities
Back to top

Copyright © 2006-2025 GLYS. All Rights Reserved.