We decided today to change our hosting service from iServ ($35 a month; 10 email accounts, 250MB of storage, no databases, frontpage server, no FTP, no scripts, 9-5/M-F phone support, we don’t have access to any files on the server – we have to call them for everything like changing htaccess or configuring email accounts) to LiquidWeb ($16 a month, unlimited email, 1G of storage, unlimited databases, full CGI support, cPanel, Fantastico, 24/7 phone support, and we have access to everything [I think] on the server, so I can modify ht files and email accounts and anything else when I want to without having to call and wait for someone to do it for me).
I think this was a long time coming, and I know iServ still serves businesses well that don’t have someone with the technical knowledge to handle certain things and don’t need lots of interactivity, or are willing to pay iServ’s programmers for what they need, but it really slows me down when I want to do something as simple as set up an email account for the new intern, and I’m capable of doing (or learning) everything we need to do with our site. So, this is going to fix that, as well as let us get all our blogs onto the SSI site directly, add an online store, integrated email subscription lists to the website, and various other things that will hopefully make www.ssi-online.org a better user experience for everyone.
I’m going to start the switchover process next week, so hopefully soon we’ll have some changes going on that you’ll notice.
For anyone that has experience in moving hosts, let me know what snags to watch out for.
