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Update – 21 August 2007

Well, I’m going to cancel my BlueHost account and possibly move over to Lunarpages instead. BlueHost has a weird no-nudity-even-for-art policy that really rankles me that I didnt know about until I forked over a C-note, and also they seem to be having a lot of trouble with their CPU limit being set so low that some people can’t even run a WordPress installation on it. Apparently if you use any scripts and the script code is sloppy you trip the CPU load limit and your site gets blacked out for a little while. You also can’t do any backups of any size without tripping it, either. And also there are rumblings of email problems with BlueHost customers as well. These things have made me leery!

And finally, though their tech support is highly available and very responsive, their forums are nowhere near as awesome as the Lunarpages forums are – and one of the mods at the BlueHost forums is actually breathtakingly rude.

So this combination of factors has led to my calling BlueHost to get my money back and then I’ll go over to Lunarpages – $30 less for more features and what looks like better support, though BlueHost was very, very good. If they turn out to suck they also have a 30-day full refund guarantee, like BlueHost – and then I’ll just stick with the host I have now until I can find something better.

Also, Lunarpages accepts adult content – you can host an adult site with Lunarpages – and I heartily approve of this.

Because fuck censorship.

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So I went and registered a new domain today so I can use it strictly for business purposes, and went looking for a new host. The guys I’ve been with for years now, Rackhost.net, are really awesome. I have no complaints at all about their service and I will say right now that their tech support is amazing. John Q is the best. I hate to leave them.

But I did a quick search ’round the ‘tubes and found BlueHost.com, who are apparently one of the best host providers anywhere. Their tech support is rumoured to be excellent and they have a ton of features and services with each account, not to mention a shitload of bandwidth and disk storage. Plus, I can host unlimited domains with them – so that means I no longer have to have separate hosting accounts for my domains.

It costs me $21 a month to host two domains with Rackhost and I only get a total of 12 gigs of storage and a few hundred gigs of bandwidth a month. For $8 a month with BlueHost, I got more features and a 350 gigs of storage / 3500 gigs of bandwidth. Clearly, though I have no complaints about Rackhost’s service at all, the clear winner here is BlueHost.

I’m a little nervous switching hosts because you just never know if the new guy is gonna suck, and boy, bad hosts are a real pain in the ass. But I couldnt find a single bad review about BlueHost and so I figured what the hell – it saves a lot of money, and I need to be saving a lot of money. :) Once I’m sure that BlueHost is reliable and trustworthy I’ll be able to launch my business-related domain too, and get my work stuff off sithly.com forever, which is good, because screw these friggin’ corporate Nazi web-surfing snoops. I want my work stuff totally separate from everything else.

This was triggered by just such a super-corporate, anal-retentive twat that bitched about my email yesterday. Turns out she was a dumb shit when it came to configuring her email client and when she went to see who I was by surfing over to my totally awesome home page, I guess she was scandalized.

Another victim Hoffed! I have the best homepage on the internets, man. I still get hate mail about it after all this time, people demanding I pay for the bleach with which they had to scrub out their eyeballs. I love my homepage. Sheer brilliance.

Anyway, in the next few weeks I’ll be switching this blawg over to the new host. Things should go smoothly (heh) but if the site blacks out for a day or two that’s probably what the deal is. It’s a good opportunity to try to tidy things up and put up a couple pages I’ve been sitting around not doing for like probably 10 years.

And, of course, my homepage is coming with me, intact.