I just switched webhosts for both primakow.net and digitallywise.com. I’ve never actually done this before and I was quite nervous about doing it. Not as much for this site, because it is much smaller, but transferring Digitally Wise over scared the hell out of me. It has a 20mb+ database and about 60mb+ worth of files that needed to be transferred over. Thankfully, however, it went relatively smoothly, and my new host had live chat online while I was doing it to help me out the few times I needed it.

The reasons for doing this were twofold: First and foremost, money. My new host saves me about $150 a year. Beyond that, however, my previous webhost, to be blunt, blew chunks. Big nasty chunks. They overloaded the hell out of their servers, which is why Digitally Wise often took forever to load (or didn’t load at all!). Also, their customer support was less than helpful. Every time I attempted to contact them because my site was down (yet, mysteriously, their “netstatus” page always said it was up and working fine) the best answer I could get was “it’s a known issue with your server, our technicians are working on fixing it.” No saying when it would be back up, no explination as to what was causing the problems. Even when I was promised compensation for their failure (I’ve been told I would recieve a month for free - twice), I never recieved it. Don’t get me wrong, I will admit that I never had issues with them for primakow.net, but the database for this blog is tiny and with DigitallyWise.com they put me on a crappy overloaded server and wouldn’t move me.

Ok, enough bitching about things past. My new webhost, ASO, has so far been great. I’ve immediately noticed a difference in load times for my sites, I can host both sites on the same account using the same bandwidth and storage space, which saves me a shitload of cash, and best of all, they’re helpful!