Decision made, implemented – and now I have to pay for it.
After more than enough research to make my eyes bleed, the best hosting solution seems to lie with a company at www.vidahost.com, and I have purchased a hosting account there, two new domains and commenced the migration of my previous domains from their current place of residence to a new home.
Everything was going smoothly, up to that last part. Vidahost have what appears to be an unassailable reputation on the Internets, and my brief contacts with support there, in the form of Dominic, have been unfailingly helpful and positive. Nothing is too much trouble, unlike 1and1 where anything at all seems to be too much trouble. But I screwed up the domain authentication key for the old MS Live domain, and that set into place a chain of events that may or may not resolve successfully yet. I think the Live domain will transfer OK, but one of the two 1and1 name transfers is currently reported as ‘cancelled’. The co.uk one went just swimmingly – but there seem to be fewer rules and thus less chance of error, for UK-based transfers than .com ones. I have faith that Dominic can sort it out, but fear I’m going to be facing another year’s fees from 1and1 – with probably no hope of ever getting out of it.
On the subject of moving, it occurs to me that my faithful public may not have the new RSS feed sorted out for the blog. If you’re seeing this, then in all probability it’s OK, but I suppose I better put a short and final entry up on the original pages (see, Google – I can manage FTP even if you can’t) to announce the change of address. Remember – it’s http://blog.pemur.com/atom.xml now.
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