I’ve been blissfully ignorant about self-hosted blogging. With over 250,000 hits per month, shared hosting services consider me to be a heavy-hitter. I have a new appreciation for my old service, iPower, for allowing me to use so much storage and bandwidth for so long.
I’m on Bluehost now, which runs a customized version of Linux that does something called CPU throttling. So if my site gets too busy, it’s automatically taken offline for a while. I don’t disagree with this approach, unless the servers have too many sites, and they’re robbing Peter’s site to service Paul’s site.
I have a few months before I have to decide whether or not to renew on Bluehost. It would be a big, and expensive, step to move to a hosting service that offers Virtual Private Servers. Once again, circumstances are forcing me to contemplate why I’m blogging, now that I’ve done everything I set out to do with it.
At first, local law enforcement thought the call from Secret Service about Obama visiting was an April Fool joke.
Guess nobody is going to jump out and say: “APRIL FOOL!”