Moving
This isn’t likely to be that exciting to many people (except maybe Nick who recently switched to godaddy instead of bluehost or Adam who also recently went to bluehost), but I’m moving webhosts. This is way, way overdue, but creates a ton of busywork for me that I’ve been trying to avoid. Here’s some of the exciting stuff involved:
- Learn Wordpress for blogging, try to migrate my existing blosxom based blog over to it
- Migrate my mailman lists over (but now I can have more than two - yay!)
- Get all my email migrated out of the old site, eventually switch to Google Apps for domains
I’m going to try to get one of my other domains rolling first and will eventually move psoul over.
UPDATE 2007.08.15 No bluehost
Bluehost have an annoying policy of requiring you send a photocopy of
your driver’s license or passport to allow you to shell in to your
hosting account. This cat ain’t having that, so I called them, tried
to get them to make an exception to the nosy policy which they
refused, and told them to close my account, refund my signup fee, and
asked that they make a policy like that clear rather than advertising
shell access as a feature when there is (what at least some people
might consider) such a significant catch tied to the option.
I’m now migrating to
href=”http://www.dreamhost.com”>Dreamhost, who seem like
href=”http://blog.dreamhost.com/”>good people and who have a
separate site listing known
system issues, which is *awesome*! The whole reason I’m leaving
Dominet is repeated weekends
with outages where I have no idea why things aren’t working - I only
know my site’s down.
Adam said,
August 18, 2007 @ 12:00 am
Did the Bluehost guys mention why they need a photocopy of your driver’s license or passport for SSH access? I didn’t like that “catch” either.
Patrick said,
August 18, 2007 @ 12:00 am
Sort of
They told me, with an incredibly condescending tone, that ssh access lets you do a lot more with your account (duh…who asks for SSH access and doesn’t know this?) and said that it’s a lot easier to do illegal things when you’ve got the right and (and I’m paraphrasing but this is almost word for word) “people who are willing to give their drivers license or passport are a *lot* less likely to do illegal things like that.” Yeah, and people who can competently secure their systems so that user accounts can’t do things that are illegal are a lot more likely to get my patronage!