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Yay, If you can read this it means that you’re tuned into this site on the new server (mentioned in my last post) and if you don’t think you’re reading this then you must be a bit dense in my opinion :P

So what can I say about One.com so far? Well obviously I wasnt expecting miracles for £10 per year and I havent received any – its a nice service and I’m happy the only gripe I have is with lack of control, being used to having root access and then moving to having virtually no control over anything is a big step. The control panel does offer some nice options though – it’s one’s own cp (not cpanel). It allows you to set up subdomains and mail accounts – only one ftp account and mysql database is given but heh how many can I need for a blog?

There is also no option given for addon/parked domains which is fair enough, I have set up CNAME’s with my registrar for my  other domains to make them point to here.

So overall I’m happy with the new set up it may just take some getting used to I’m sure my opinion will change over the coming days/weeks/hours; I’ll keep you informed and I’ll post some server specs and interesting things I can gather later.

If anyone notices anything out of the ordinary since the move please comment here and let me know.

Craig

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Yes, its been years since I have had my site on a server that was managed by someone else, but as university beckons and the shadows of an increasing debt cloud ride over me I’ve decided to pack up my £12/month VPS and move this blog over to One.com shared hosting.

For a little over £10 inc VAT I am subscribed to One.com for a year, this is a very reasonable price in my opinion and making the move will ensure that I no longer need to worry about keeping the server running, and more crucially, paying for it. I will be able to concentrate more on posting blogs (and my studies :P).

The VPS I have been using was becoming wasteful as all it was hosting is this blog and a few sites for friends – in my opinion – not enough to warrant a VPS. I will however miss the sense of freedom and control you get from private servers but the money saved outweighs the miss and I will install Linux on my PC again to play with .

Now to the important stuff – obviously I have to move the blog over to the new server and change the nameservers (at time of writing I’m still on the VPS) So you may notice some downtime whilst I do this but all-in-all hopefully the site will be back up and functioning by the end of the day.

As I am bored I’ve just taken some time to tidy up the page a bit so that (the main page at least) is XHTML 1.0 Strict Compliant.

Check it out:

I have just upgraded to Wordpress 2.6 (like I said I would in the last post). This is pointless news because you – my blog readers – don’t need to know and probably won’t notice any difference but alas I felt like writing it down and filing it under Site Updates just because I can.

:-)