Lesson Learned: Use Trustworthy Hosting

Well for those of you kind enough to follow either of my other two blogs that I had been cultivating, Veritas/tic and TaxNation, you may have noticed a rapid drop in posts. Then again, with TaxNation you may not have, since I haven’t had time in months to truly devote the effort I wanted to creating solid, worthwhile topics. 

A little under a year ago I won some free hosting services through a contest on a friend’s blog, and I gladly moved my two sites over from their wordpress.com domains to what I thought would be a reliable hosting solution, Wordly.org (no link, since the site is now offline).

Now, I should have seen this coming, given the warning signs:

•  No dedicated cPanel, so I had no control over the backend of my blogs, including important wordpress updates
• No change (ever) in the wordly.org site, it remained static
• Bad response time, if any, from the owner of Wordly

So needless to say, last week when my blogs went down simultaneously, I wasn’t so much surprised by the event, just the timing. Anyway, I have created this new blog, on wordpress.com, to continue what I had started with Veritas/tic… it was time for a change anyway.