Stress and the Nature
Sounds Biz
On May 1st
the decision was made to move virtualdreamer.com to a new host company.
We were previously hosted with Inuit/Homestead but I had become
increasingly frustrated with the lack of options that were available to
us. I refer to it as 'Intuit/Homestead' as Intuit (the Quicken guys)
bought Homestead and are slowly phasing out Homestead. It was not that
Intuit was a bad host site. They just have limited options. Options such as
Wordpress (why this blog looks odd) PHP and compression are simply not
available on Intuit/Homestead. While these things are
rather esoteric I can assure you that they have their importance in
presenting an efficient, informative and fast loading webpage on the Internet. I
researched the bigger host companies and chose GoDaddy.com for
virtualdreamer's new dedicated website. This was the beginning a long
stress filled process. Intuit/Homestead did everything in their power to
block the transfer. They told me I would have to speak to their 'legal'
department (which was complete BS) .They told me I was making a mistake.
They acted like I was breaking up with them ... sad at first but soon
angry. They delayed the transfer of the domain as long as they could.
I had the feeling they were telling me something like 'sure, you can
move your website... when you pry it from our cold dead fingers!' But, a week ago today, virtualdreamer was forcefully
pryed from their
icey grip and given to GoDaddy. I did, however, keep an account
open with Intuit/Homestead... just in case.
I guess my
point is you never know a hosting company's true nature until you break
up with them. While things at the GoDaddy end have proceeded much
smoother I have some issues with them, also. These have all been
technical in nature and I am sure they will be worked out in short
order. I am hoping that moving a website to a new host is not one of
those activities that fall under the idiom ''better the devil you know
than the devil you don't'.
P.S. While
I am just venting about the stress of moving the site I would like to
point out that the actual product download site, Payloadz.com ,
continues to be exemplary .
Brad McBride
Dream good dreams!
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