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For those lucky few of you who follow my RSS feed you may have gotten repeat posts from me today. Sorry about that, but I just changed the feed address linked to my feedburner account to reflect the change to chrisrohde.net!

Thats right, I have moved… again. After just about two short weeks in the confinement of wordpress.com, my twitter buddy Ryan Ellerbe has come through with some spare room hosting for me, and I went ahead and registered my own domain (which should avoid the nonsense I just went through happening to me ever again)

I have, for the moment, settled on the copyblogger theme for wordpress… as far as no-maintenance goes, I like it, as it doesn’t require much tweaking on my part to be satisfied with it. This is not to say, of course, that I am not going to style it myself later, but as for this weekend I have loads and loads of housework to get done.

In the wake of recent events and the forced rebuilding of my blog, I am faced with a bit of a quandry.

Do I allow this violation of my trust to cripple me, and resign myself to a blog hosted perpetually on wordpress.com, knowing full well that it reduces my control over design, plugins, analytics, and other fun aspects of blogging?

Or do I place my faith and effort into another hosting service, accepting the risk of losing all my data once again in trade for the freedom to do with my blog what I want?

I think I would like to find a decently-priced hosting service, I think I am ready for the plunge again. Or I will be, soon.

Who would you guys recommend?

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.