My Website Headache

I’ve had one heck of a week, there was so much of drama here and there but the one drama I want and have to rant about is the transfer of my site to a new webhost provider… Thus I shall begin. Already bad enough that I haven’t been blogging much for the past two days.. then this happens.. I was originally with Shinjiru.com as my webhost provider because that was a recommendation which I got from a friend. I went for it mostly because it had budget and best bargain for the specs that was sufficient for a ‘personal’ blog. The pricing they had then was around RM120 for a year, for 2GB worth of space and some other specs which i don’t remember, but it obviously had php 5 and mysql. Both which extremely necessary for wordpress. So yeah i went ahead and bought that along with RM38 for aronil.com domain. Great then I decided to look around for another webhosting provider to try something different. My gosh have I know learned the hard way. If some of you have visited, aronil.com site was down for a good day called Saturday because the transfer of the domain from the old host to the new one was in progress. I am now using WebhostingBuzz. And what really sold me was because of 3 things:

1. the person who recommended it to me – Paul Tan (cause he is using it too and he’s got good some good impressions of it)
2. the price is nearly the same as Exabytes (which was my alternative at first). I went for the two year package so i pay RM329 – about that-
3. plus the fact that it is carbon neutral. Meaning that the place where their physical servers are is friendly to the environment. Always wanted that so yay

While all that is fine and dandy. I had such a headache with the transfer process. Mostly because this is my first time doing it. I didn’t know what to expect and I didn’t know how to to do anything. Basically I was in no control whatsoever. I did tell Shinjiru that I wanted to change to my new server and required them to release my domain and state the new ipserver. Ok cool done in a matter of hours. Bad thing… WebhostingBuzz kept directing me to their default site.

 

Sigh so my traffic went down to zero, I’m so sorry for the people who tried to access but to no avail. Not to mention that the backup I had done with wordpress had been corrupted meaning all my posts.. with it’s comments.. pictures and what not…. all gone. Sigh… The good thing though… I want to give my thanks to Nicholas of InvertedN and Abinesh of Delirium. Nick helped me settle the redirection problem of my domain on my confounded cpanel and Abi gave me a great idea asking whether I subscribe to my own rss. I do. and why? Because all my posts are there!!! Brilliant. Meaning that all my post can be placed back here, although I would have to manually put up each and everyone of them again along with their comments and pictures… oh goshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh All the same, these two were a great help and I give them full credit for anything going well now… and also to Mister G. He’s going to help me put up the post tomorrow.. One by one.. Ouch!!! That said though, I will say that Shinjiru is really fast with their replies. I sent them my problematic emails at around 12am, like just, and they replied me 2 hours later = 2a.m. I’m impressed! So thanks to Shinjiru for being my first webhost but I wanna try something else for a bit. Who knows I may use them again They do offer the best prices. I can’t make any comments on my new provider yet as i just transferred to them. But they are equally just as prompt. So lesson is.. please please please, backup all your data. make sure it’s uncorrupted and……….never ever change to another webhosting provider unless you really need to. To do it for fun is just not worth the headache.