Feeling: Pretty good
Melody: You are my love – Yui Makino

The past few weeks have been pretty productive for me and school, thought despite that I don’t think I’ve been getting any more sleep than I normally would xDD That plus whenever I can I try to get up as early as possible to go practice my piano repertoire school (cause I don’t want to wake up my mom at like 9:30am xDD;;; ). I have to say my Classical Piano course takes quite a bit of time to practice, it’s pretty demanding and some of the stuff is fairly hard, plus I have a relatively small hand so anything with octaves is like…..”blargh hand cramp!” after like a 3-hour practice xD;;; But you know, I missed it, the lessons, the practicing, being able to play and hear songs that are beautiful, the motivation that comes from it and the fact that it’s incredibly relaxing ^^ Having quit private/formal lessons for almost 2 years, it was always hard to find time and motivation to play (other than to test out my transcriptions and the random urges to play lol), that and every so often I’d feel pretty stiff in my hands from not practicing everyday. I still get that even now thought because I can’t practice everyday xD;;;;

Anyhoos,

So recently I’ve been researching web hosts to move to (heh, I wonder if I should be posting about this here lol). I’ve been with Servage for a little over 3 years now. For the first year my experience with them was very good to say the least and was still good up until a little over a year after when my domain was hacked and my gmail was hacked and I had to go through the grueling process of trying to get my domain access back D: Even after than I still stayed with Servage because well (1) that incident could have been either or at fault (either my gmail was hacked first then my domain, or my domain was hacked first then my gmail…but anyway) and (2) at that time I had no other way of paying hosts other than cash. The year after now (last year, ’08) I might have been hacked again (or there was a leftover hole from the previous hack) cause Servage all of a sudden e-mails me saying there’s phishing scams on my account and then all of a sudden decides to suspend my account, shuts down my site AND denies me access to my own Admin CP before even letting me try to fix the problem D: Still for the same reasons I stuck with them cause….ya…you know. Good thing is though my site is pretty much never down (unless I’m wrong and it’s just me O____O), but for sure, I can find a host that’ll charge me less than $8.10/month on a 14 month contract (that and a host that won’t try to pin the blame on me every time something weird happens to my account D: ).

BUT! This year (and I still wonder why I didn’t do it at the beginning of ’09) I’m planning on switching to another host and transferring my domain name to GoDaddy for safekeeping in the case that I decide to switch hosts again. My account here on Servage is expiring this coming March so I have until then to move. Right now I’ve narrowed myself down to about 2 hosts:

Bluehost – It’s top-listed on WordPress.org so that says something, one of my friends also has a domain hosted there and a random person also recommended it to me on Twitter LOL

Downtown Host – It’s well priced, I remember a while back I knew someone that had a site hosted by them but now I don’t remember who xD;;; Their cheapest plan is cheaper than Bluehost…..but then the catch to that is that you have to sign for a 2 year contract. And to be honest if bad things happen within a year I don’t want to be stuck with them for that much longer unless I have no choice (which I do have a choice now so…ya…) But anyway, it’s a good choice too imo (from reviews I’ve read).

In addition to moving to a new host, I’m also planning to buy another domain name that will be solely dedicated to my design work. So my portfolio will be there and I’ll be starting a design blog (that you guys can follow too if you want :3) to blog about work that I’m doing or any other interesting design-related things I see or am in.

That said, I’m not really sure if I should move my current domain name to GoDaddy AND buy my new domain with them or if I go with Bluehost, just register it with them (cause it comes with a free domain name registration), btw having both domain names under GoDaddy will cost me about $20/year (obviously having 1 will cost me half the price). Mmm…ya…I’m not sure, I have to look into some more now xD;;;; (any suggestions?^^;;; )

btw, if anyone wants to comment with hosting recommendations/reviews please do <3
I’m really just looking for regular hosting (no dedicated or anything like that) with a really good customer support/reliability, 99%+ uptime, good security, decent space and well worth their price.

Tags: life, school

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