The West Ring

Just a quick post to say we’ve moved. The hosting of the website that is, not physically!

It’s been a long time coming (forging a new career got in the way) but I’ve wanted to sack 1&1 for a long time now. It wasn’t so much that their server went bang and lost everything, it was the fact that they dragged out restoring the backup for months…only to then say “Oh, this has gone on too long, your backup is no more!” Turns out the useless tossers only keep backups for three days anyway! So quite how (and why!) they managed to drag it out for so long is beyond me.

Anyway, good things come to those who wait! I am now paying half the amount for a much better package and level of service. The new host is TSOHost and so fary, so goody. I completed the purchase shortly before 1700 yesterday (Friday, 28th Dec) and they had me up and running almost immediately. The support ticket I opened with a question about the domain transfer was answered very quickly too.

One of the reasons for moving was to be able to create a MYSQL database. This means I can create a new, super-whizzy photo gallery - probably using Gallery v2. This may take a little while for me to complete so please bear with me. Once it’s done I’ll upload all our photos (I hadn’t bothered after 1&1 lost the old website because I knew I was going to move it).

I think the front page will stay as the Blogger blog because I’ve got the moblogging working well.

Right, off for a Wii at the Outlaw’s!