Moving To A New Host

Friday February 29, 2008 

For the last few years, this site has been hosted by my employer, and while that turned into a pretty good deal for me, there were still a few things about it that eventually got me to thinking that it might be time to look for another host. 

Security, for one.  All that hosting was done for free, and could have theoretically ended on a moment’s notice.  Or if I decided to move on to another position somewhere else, I wanted to ensure that there would be no downtime for the site.  There was also the fact that uploads to my site had to be done over a secure FTP connection, meaning that I couldn’t just embed images in my posts when using Windows Live Writer, because it doesn’t support SFTP.  I would have to upload the image to the site, and then point to it in the post.  Not a life altering thing, but still…

So now the site is being hosted by BlueFur.com, a local webhost, and I have to admit to being more than impressed by their whole setup.  If anything, their Wordpress configuration script was almost easier to run than the “5 Minute Install” promised by Wordpress. 

And another great thing about them is that if you sign up with them, and enter promotion code rtdn they’ll even give you a 15% discount.  Hard to beat, especially when the hosting starts at $6.95.  So, give them a try and remember the promotional code to get your 15% discount: rtdn.

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