Critical Thoughts

This blog was down during the weekend because the host suddenly suspended it due to non-payment. Initially I was shocked and I thought that the host company had ran off on me. I originally bought this hosting from Killer Hosting (who was promoting their offer on Digital Point Forums) from Canada and agreed to pay $30 for it on a yearly basis.

Fortunately the suspension page had a redirection link which took me to a UK hosting site that I have never seen before. Enter FastHost4U UK.

Turns out that they suspended the account because the monthly payment of £5.99 was not paid. I am really puzzled as to how a yearly account could suddenly turn into a monthly account. But the price was cheap, considering the hosting specs. So I agreed to pay for it and I did exactly that last night.

So now it seems that instead of a Canadian company, I am now attached to a UK one. LOL, this is truly funny!

In a few hours and as soon as the DNS nameservers for my new server account resolves, I will initiate the transfer of this blog to its own server. Yes, you read this right, I now own my own server and can even offer hosting services if I so wish it. However I will not be offering such services at the moment, as I am in the midst of organising my blogs and website assets. The new server datacenter will be based in the US, and since it is a privately-owned dedicated server, performance will be much better than before. Paying for the cost of the server is quite considerable, but at least it didn’t force me to apply for payday loans online in order to maintain it.

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