My hosting account was up for renewal at webhost4life.com and I was about to press the button for 130 bucks, when I saw they were going to charge me a $10 renewal fee. I guess I am really cheap, but it drove me crazy that they wanted to charge $10 a month in advance and charge me additional money to stay with them.
Since I already had an account with ASPNIX.COM for a community server deployment, I figured what the heck.
There does appear to be some noise in the forums and peoples blogs about problems with aspnix, particularly with down time and long times for service calls to be answered. I almost lost it when I realized that a service ticket must be opened to get a database backup or restore. That is nuts, and webhost4life makes this easy, as well as discountasp.net.
So, the eperiment begins...I have a copy of my webhost4lifes apps and databases so I can always go back or try another host if aspnix does not work out.
I took the opportunity to install DNN 4.4.1 and started to move some of the content over, such as blogs and the like. I know that my URLS will change for some of the content, but hey, the search engines rebuild quite a bit lately...
Time will tell this was a good move, I have a lot of data to move, but I figure it will force me to get those apps working better...I just need to find one of my accounts to edit the DNS for silverribbon.com, that may be a show stopper...