My webhost plan with BlueHost expired the week of December 17, last month. Unfortunately I didn’t have the $80 to renew the annual agreement and the price of the other plans were not very reasonable compared to the annual. There were no monthly plans. Thankfully, a representative was nice enough to back up my files for me in a .tar and he emailed them to my hotmail account.

I searched many hours for a cheap (in pricing) host but not cheap with the features. A lot of plans look too good to be true and I try to stay away from them because you usually end up disappointed. I signed up with GoDaddy webhosting for a month. After someone suggested it to me, I thought it may work nicely since they already host my domains. Well, I didn’t care for their features and I didn’t like how it took several minutes to set up a database. I am very used to cPanel-like structures.

So about 2 weeks ago, I restarted my hunt for a new webhost and I ended up with HostDepartment. I have the plan in the first column here. I like HostDepartment so far… they have a toll-free number but generally assist with technical questions with the Live Chat feature.

Even after getting a new webhost, missnexus.com was down for so long because I couldn’t figure out how to upload my blog’s .sql. Shady and Rob helped me out a great deal, but I kept getting many errors. After deleting two tables and hundreds of spam comments, I was able to get the database backed up properly. ‘Local Host’ did not work correctly in my WordPress config file… so I contacted HostDepartment and a rep gave me the correct info.

And here I am.

I never want a long hiatus like that again.

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