Riding the train from London to Southampton I get the impression that South East England's future is one long, luscious and exquisitely cared-for 18,000 hole golf course.
Um.
Hey there.
In much the same way that Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Garp, and many others have found, commiting suicide lends a note of gravitas to your work. Maybe the same applies to having your site dwindle away in the cache of the all-powerful google; a sort of Internet Hades where shades drift unacknowledged into the grey.
I haven't done anything about renewing my webspace just yet, and it's up soon.
Help me someone.
I don't want to die.
I'm with Supanames and I'd dearly like to move; much as I suspect they would dearly like me to move, as I seem to be so much of a bandwidth burden that they repeatedly took the drastic action of suspending all sorts of workings deep within autoblography home territory. Recommendations for people I can renew my domain name with and all that bumpf will be heartily received.
I'm just blurbing tonight; nothing serious, nothing heavy, nothing re-read and changed, just a mad end-on post without rhyme or reason and no great point to conclude on. Krissa is topping up valuable Alias viewing time with Shiv and Biscuit, and I bought a couple of cans of beer on the way home.
I'm reading Catch-22 at the moment. Krissa and I have an absolute GLUT of books at the moment after the Bryant Park Literature Orgy, or whatever it was called, and my birthday yielded some real gems from all sorts of corners - Mark (also hiding, partially, over here) gave me Freakonomics which I'd seen around but thought was something completely different, Shana gave me Forever, which would appear to be the literary equivalent of a candlelit dinner in my ongoing romance with New York...my Mum sent Monsieur Terry Pratchett's latest offering in the form of Thud! and the wonderfully obscure and tittilating Bryson's Dictionary Of Troublesome Words.
Musically I was surprised, astonished and then thoroughly chuffed to recieve Beck's Guero from the NaNoWriMo-approaching and constantly wonderous Lady Crumpet.
So tonight I think I might just read and listen to music.
Get your ass over to Pair. They've been rock solid for me for the last seven years.
hosting:
www.pair.com
DNS:
www.pairnic.com
Switching hosting providers can be a total beeatch. I've never tried it before, but I sense that you may have a real hell of a time transferring Movable Type from one host to another.
Domain: Godaddy. I know the name sounds corney but they are cheap and still run by the guy who owns them. I've had no problems with them. Avoid the extras they try upsell you (hey they have to make money too) and you'll be find.
Hosting: Surpass Hosting are very good and gives oodles of space and bandwith for very little cost.
Moving MT isn't actually that difficult and I have done it a few times. Support offered if needed.
Failing that, I'm also running a few blogs (or will be, there is one currently) on a seperate domain for friends. I'm quite happy to host yours as well and you just pay for your bit of the hosting, while I do all the MT support.
I also support GoDaddy for domain registration. But for hosting, i go with PowWeb. I've been with them for ages, and I suggest them to all of my freelancing clients. It's cheap ($97/year), you get 2 gigs of space and 5gig transfer a day. that should take care of your bandwidth issue right there. I have also done the MT change a few times. It helps if you're on the MySQL db config, because it's easiest to backup and restore (so I think), but anything really isn't that bad to transfer. Sorry for the long comment, mate - I'll hit "Post" now.