Want to hear the sad history of my dad’s Website?
We all make mistakes and the biggest one was the choice of Purehost.
Oh wait-my dad never actually chose Purehost.
That’s right-he was automatically switched to them when his Dell- provided- with -computer- purchase- free site was bought by Purehost. All customers unlucky enough to have a Dell hosted Website found themselves being told that their once free site would now cost 200 bucks a year. It was like it or eff off and get your own host.
My dad paid up. And he stayed and stayed. His site made no money yet he paid money he couldn’t afford for it. My dad isn’t the type to throw good money away after bad but in this case he has. For YEARS. I think since 1998 if you can believe it.
Maybe it was the fearful “early days” of the web that froze my dad into this very bad situation. Whatever it was I was too busy working in retail after getting a useless education in fine art to know about or care. Jump 12 years ahead
and I am coming on to my 2cnd full year of banging my head against the inscrutable wall of Purehost.
Purehost has two accounts that you can sign up for:UNIX or WINDOWS hosting platforms.The WINDOWS is for those types who like ASP.NET. UNIX is for those who want to use mySQL. Crazy folks like me who want to use WordPress and need a mySQL database in order to do so.
There’s ASP,VBscript for the WINDOWS platform.I don’t know anything about those.
I’m still working on learning PHP. I think I did a Hello World…but that’s it. There’s ColdFusion as well.I’m really clueless about that. I use my right brain. I’m an artist. This stuff is hard for me. A lot of it looks a lot like math and my eyes glaze over. Still, I am forging ahead handicapped as I am.
Purehost gives me some options:
1). Switch to the UNIX platform, get five mysql databases costing 5 bucks a month billed each month and raising my dad’s too expensive hosting plan from the level of obscene to grossly obscene.
2).Stay put.
3).Transfer to a new host and all the agro that entails.
Any option mentioned above is a big suck. But number 3 will at least free us from the evil of Purehost.
I’m still learning a lot of stuff, too. So, read the rest of this comment with this in mind: I may or may not know what I’m talking about.
I’ve read where some hosts will transfer your site for you. I’ve only read that under the condition that both the old host and the new host use C-Panel, but I have no idea why.
$200/year is a LOT of money. At least it would be for my blog, but my blog doesn’t get much traffic. I just recently moved my blog the hard way (my old host was TypePad [no C-Panel]), and I got a lot of help just by asking questions at TBE.
Good luck, whatver you decide to do!
We have something called a filemanager but yeah it’s a cpanel. But transferring the actual content doesn’t throw me. Because of Purehost’s backward set up we have no mySQL databases to switch over and I hear that is the stumbling block for most. Everything else could easily be loaded/unloaded via FTP. Then there’s the usual effort to redirect the nameservers to the new host.
Either way with or without a database it is a big effort with lots of room to make mistakes…
200 a year is a lot.(mt) is a very good host and they charge that much but they are worth it.I’ve worked with their hosting plan and it is totally dreamy.