ZitSeng.com Has Moved

I’ve moved this website. You probably know where to, if you’ve been following my recent posts. After one week pilot testing Bluehost and GreenGeeks, I decided to go with Bluehost. If you’re reading this post, it means you’re already seeing the relocated website. As much as I want to support a pro-green web hosting company, after much careful consideration, I concluded that Bluehost offered a better package for my needs.

You can read my GreenGeeks vs Bluehost review. There were a few good things going for GreenGeeks, but once my priorities were sorted out, Bluehost was clearly the winner. (Different people have different needs, and obviously some people will find GreenGeeks is the better choice.)

I’ve signed up a 3-year plan, but with anytime money back guarantee, there’s basically no real contract involved. After so many years running my own website, taking care of every detail of it from data centre co-location to server administration, I’m now letting a web hosting company sell me a service that I know perfectly well how to do myself. I hope I won’t be disappointed.

In the last month or so, I’ve been evaluating a bunch of Internet services, the sort of services that enable me to have a website, have my email, and generally have my presence on the Internet. For a start, I’ve started to change my domain name registrar to Namecheap. I’ll move my domains progressively as and when their current registrations expire.  Subsequently, I’m also exploring DNS hosting services.

I’m even thinking about email hosting… such as moving to Google Apps.

Cloud services are finally beginning to win me over. I’ve been slow to adopt hosting services. It’s because I know how to run all the services myself. I have the infrastructure to run the services myself. I don’t need to outsource. But, it’s beginning to get tiring, inefficient, and expensive to do it myself. Expensive isn’t necessarily in monetary terms, but more so in terms of effort.

I’ve been hesitant to trust the cloud or hosting services. You might have heard about the recent AWS outage (see more). That there was downtime was just a minor inconvenience. What was worrying was data loss. Yup, so much for redundant data storage.