Long has it been that I wanted to migrate this site to a clean new slate. Response time was slow as a crawl and often the SSL certificate provided by the webhost broke down, presenting visitors with the dreaded warning page to turn back. What finally counted as the final straw was the increasingly frequent server downtime sending all traffic to the webhost’s own landing page.
So started the plan for a site migration. What will be some decent webhosts? Any of them offer cPanel? Shall I also get a domain name instead of using the subdomain provided by the webhost? It is not a fun job to migrate from one webhost to another, should there be a hiccup I might lose all the content/backups. Therefore the solution has to be resilient and also reduce the need for further migrations in the future.
Gears kicked to the next phase as I received an unexpected text from an old friend with a webhost recommendation. Upon checking out the site, I was stoked. The search is now over, I have a new home for my site. If you’re reading this, thank you for introducing 2 of the best webhosts I have used in the entire history of this blog. My other choices of webhosts were terrible in comparison and borderline nightmarish. I also made the decision to order a domain and here we are, live on the internet as of 6 March 2022.
Noticeable improvements over the previous webhost
- Better responsiveness/lower latency
- SSL that actually works
- Minimal server downtime
- More generous disk quota/host resources (migrated some resources from external third party hosts to the webhost)
- Other quirky conflicts (non critical) no longer a concern
