Saturday, February 14th, 2009
My wife has been working very hard at getting our credit card debt eliminated. I’ve been doing my part and we are now down to one card with any balance. Soon that will be gone and then it is house shopping.
Since Christmas, we have been looking at all our bills and looking for ways to reduce them. Since I never really got the idea of selling my service and hosting websites for people, I’ve decided to go to a less expensive hosting company. So I’m in the process of moving all my websites, my church website and a family website to the new host. It will take some more time but once I cancel the old account then we will have a few more pennies to through at the credit card company.
We are also thinking of dropping our house phone. We use Vonage’s 500 minute plan, so our bill is as low as it can get already. We rarely exceed 200 minutes in a month. Well within our cell phone plan minutes.
And we are also thinking of reducing our cable service and using Hulu, Boxee and other online entertainment offerings more. With the Wii and Netflix, we frankly are not watching as much TV anymore anyway.
So anyway, before I ramble on more, If you notice a change or problem on one of my websites then consider it a move-in-progress. Email me if you like. It will all clear up soon.
Tags: About Useless Nexus, change, domains, DreamHost, hosting, Reseller Zoom, web hosting, website
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
A few days ago, I wrote an article, Don’t Use Your ISP for Email. At the end, I suggested that you just get a domain account from Google Apps Standard Edition. Today, I was listening to Buzz Out Loud 909: The 404 hacks Natali’s computer and was reminded that Microsoft has a similar offer. Office Live Small Business allows you to have a domain and email and more.
I used it when it first came out a few years ago but prefered Google’s offer. Since then I have just forgotten about it. But if you are looking for an easy and inexpensive place to host your own domain and manage your own email then Microsoft is worth a look too.
And of course DreamHost Apps, can give you some other options and Google Apps.
Tags: Buzz Out Loud, domain, DreamHost, email, Google, ISP, Microsoft, Office Live, service
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Over the New Year’s weekend, DreamHost had an amazing deal on hosting that I could not refuse trying. I have an account with Reseller Zoom and am very happy. But the deal DreamHost offered was so inexpensive that I decided to give them a try. Besides, I’ve been thinking an inexpensive backup host might be a good idea.
So far my experience has been mixed. I signed up on Sunday and setup a couple of domains. Then on Tuesday, the server I was on went down and was offline most of the day. These things happen. Hardware fails. I can forgive some misfortune. So far today Aquaman, the server, is fine and I’ve been playing more.
This is my first host that does not use CPanel or WHM for their backend control panel system. There are some idiosyncrasies that I’m still getting used to but nothing that has completely perplexed me. The control panel appears complete. I could find all the settings and controls I wanted. I was able to easily get some WordPress blogs running without the use of DreamHost’s one-click installers. I will be trying a Drupal setup in another week or so.
The Support Wiki is a great reference. I’ve browsed it to see what is there. Like any Wiki, some areas need some cleaning up and improvement but appears complete, in that it answered all the questions I went looking for.
At this time, I plan to move a couple of low traffic sites over to DreamHost so as to get the feel of what they have to offer. Certainly, the price I paid for a two year plan is impossible to beat.
Tags: DreamHost, hosting, Reseller Zoom
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