Since Google (bless ‘em) decided to stop supporting FTP for this blog, it appears that I no longer have access to an archive of the contents. That’s only slightly disturbing, because I very much doubt that anyone will ever want to refer back to older entries. In fact, unless it’s pushed directly in front of anyone (Facebook, I knew you were useful for something!), no-one probably even looks at the up-to-date stuff.
The point of all this rambling is that for one reason or another I’ve decided to look again at my domains and hosting arrangements. 1and1 and I are likely to have a parting of the ways in the very near future, mainly because I don’t feel that they are very answerable to their customers. The straw that broke the camel’s back was their unwillingness to provide me with proper access logs, including full IP addresses. All I get is the /24 subnet. This is not acceptable – and most certainly wouldn’t be OK if it were a commercial site. Therefore, I’ve decided to vote with my feet, or at least with my credit card.
The requirements are for a domain registration and hosting service that allows me to manipulate DNS as I see fit (not under the strict 1and1 control) and which just provides the service and gets out of the way in terms of web sites. Oh, and since the credit card comes into it, it also needs to be cheap.
Of the possible candidates, none stand head-and-shoulders above the rest, but I do have a certain regard for kNET: they seem to offer reasonable storage, good bandwidth allowance, multiple domains etc all for no more than 1and1 charge. Ok, bandwidth isn’t unlimited, as 1and1 claim to provide, but does that really matter? After all, there’s little enough traffic nowadays, given that the blog no longer resides on my storage.
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