So just an update for everyone, and this will go into the forums as well, BlueHost has been kinda dickin' me around on the price of our hosting and I'm none to pleased. I don't care that it went up, I care that it went up and they won't tell me why.
So I started looking around for some alternatives, just in case, and decided that at the very least pulling our domain might be a good idea.
I've used a placed called Registar in the past and they've been ok, but I ran into the exact same issue there that BlueHost was giving me. $12 sub total, you owe $12, a cost of $29.95 annually. No explanation, no reason. Just more than twice the price after the initial payment.
So I decided to ask about that. At the time, I've heard nothing yet.
Meanwhile, Scarlet called me and told me about another hosting service called Arvixe. I checked them out this morning and it looks pretty good. It's cheaper, we get essentially everything we've already got... but their servers are Linux based instead of windows based.
Now I'm 99.9% sure we'll be fine to make that switch, but I'd like to be 100% sure with stuff like this. I did some looking around online, checked out some forums, sent them a support ticket, and have reached out to Kewlio to see what he thinks... since he basically built the cms we're using for the videos. Everything, at this point in time, looks good... though I haven't heard from him yet.
If this ends up being a good option, we're going to take it. It's less for 2 years with these guys than it is 1 year with anyone else. Basically, we've got enough right now to cover that. Saves us money, we don't have to do the fund raising as much, plus we're going to get some ad credits with bing and google.
Anyway, that's where we're sitting with everything at the moment. When I know more, I'll be sure to let you guys know.
So I started looking around for some alternatives, just in case, and decided that at the very least pulling our domain might be a good idea.
I've used a placed called Registar in the past and they've been ok, but I ran into the exact same issue there that BlueHost was giving me. $12 sub total, you owe $12, a cost of $29.95 annually. No explanation, no reason. Just more than twice the price after the initial payment.
So I decided to ask about that. At the time, I've heard nothing yet.
Meanwhile, Scarlet called me and told me about another hosting service called Arvixe. I checked them out this morning and it looks pretty good. It's cheaper, we get essentially everything we've already got... but their servers are Linux based instead of windows based.
Now I'm 99.9% sure we'll be fine to make that switch, but I'd like to be 100% sure with stuff like this. I did some looking around online, checked out some forums, sent them a support ticket, and have reached out to Kewlio to see what he thinks... since he basically built the cms we're using for the videos. Everything, at this point in time, looks good... though I haven't heard from him yet.
If this ends up being a good option, we're going to take it. It's less for 2 years with these guys than it is 1 year with anyone else. Basically, we've got enough right now to cover that. Saves us money, we don't have to do the fund raising as much, plus we're going to get some ad credits with bing and google.
Anyway, that's where we're sitting with everything at the moment. When I know more, I'll be sure to let you guys know.
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