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We're back!
After a few hiccups (mainly missing images), the site is back to normal, I think. If you notice anything strange, please let me know!
Yesterday I moved the site to another host as my previous contract was getting close to an end and I didn't overly want to stay there.
This time I chose BlueHost.com which was recommended to me. It seems that reviews are good and that the connection is a bit faster than before (for me anyway).
I was quite surprised by the features BlueHost offers for the same price: 200GB of disk space and 2TB of monthly bandwidth. My previous host offered a reasonable 2GB of space and 60GB of bandwidth, limits that I never got close to reaching. I don't really have a use for such allowances, but this is just to say that it seems standards have been going up!
This does make me wonder how many clients they fit per server. It sure couldn't be many if everyone would use their 200GB of space, but probably few do.
The move went rather smoothly, except that Movable Type spit out some unneeded .htaccess files in all blog root folders, and that broke a lot of stuff until I went and deleted them.
A good thing is that the new host supports FastCGI, which can be used to make MT run smoother. Hopefully response time when posting a comment will be better than before.
Posted on February 17, 2007 at 10:50 | Tweet
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I host my blog at bluehost too. While the company gets really good reviews and has reliable and helpful customer service, it had some problems recently since they seemed to grow too fast and had problems too keep up with hardware upgrades. Hopefully are problems are resolved by now.
Buy they way, they run an affiliate program where you can earn 65 bucks for every new subscriber.
PS: Did you ever thought about changing to Wordpress? The software seems to be superiors to MT. The main reason is the extremely active and helpful community.
Posted by Ferdinand on February 18, 2007 at 23:20
I'm glad to hear that your experience with Bluehost is mostly good! Thanks for letting me know about the affiliate program, I signed up. :)
Regarding Wordpress, in my perspective, it's not superior to MT.
It's got a lot to do with one's own taste and habits too, but personally I'm used to MT and customizing and creating plugins for it. Also I think that any decent blog software should be able to create static pages, Wordpress doesn't even offer this as an option (all pages are dynamic, query the database intensively, and if your DB disappears so does your blog).
Posted by Patrick on February 19, 2007 at 10:23
Hi Patrick,
I read your CV after I wrote my comment on WP and I am sure that you know what your are doing :-).
PS: Don't forget to include you affiliate ID in the link to Bluehost. :-).
Posted by Ferdinand on February 20, 2007 at 17:46
Thanks! :) I think I've got the affiliate ID in there alright, as long as I understood it correctly. :)
Posted by Patrick on February 20, 2007 at 18:12