The blog is moving to a different hosting provider so there may be some downtime or certificate issues during the switch.

@colinwalker how are you hosting it?

@hjertnes Shared hosting via a company here in the UK. We have a reseller account so it’s with that.

@colinwalker I need to think whether to move my sites. After many years with Virtualnames (great service from the Harveys) I was migrated to Namesco and it’s not great so far. Last straw might be the inability to edit my Wordpress site through third-party apps such as MarsEdit.

@BestofTimes cough - isn’t that table stakes ?

@BestofTimes Our current host has been experiencing more and more problems and performance has been worsening so it was time to move.

@stefp Yes, it’s still there at present but not for long.

@colinwalker how much is shared hosting these days?

@hjertnes Not a clue 😆 because it’s all part of my wife’s reseller account I’m effectively getting it for free.

@colinwalker is that deal available to everyone ?

@JohnPhilpin hahaha, don’t think she’d go for that.

@colinwalker you never get the order if you don’t ask for it.

@JohnPhilpin @colinwalker @hjertnes I’m interested to know how much are people paying for hosting too. Bluehost does an introductory price of 3.95/month of you have just one site 5.95/month for unlimited sites. But those get pushed to 7.99 and 10.99 after your first order (you can buy a bucketload of years on that introductory price, but then you’re spending a bucketload of money in one go...)

@vishae I use siteground and have a reseller deal there - works out to about 45 a year per domain name

@JohnPhilpin how do you get a reseller deal? If you don’t mind my asking.

@vishae i use siteground

@vishae I run my sites and a few other apps from one of the cheapest linodes($5/month)

@JohnPhilpin thanks!

@hjertnes do you need a lot of technical know-how to handle that? So far all my WP instances are one-click installs, I wouldn’t know how to begin otherwise.

@vishae It's not that hard. But you need to learn some stuff. I guess it depends on if you are willing to learn and how comfortable you are with the command line.

@vishae Learning how to set up Apache, MySQL and PHP was where I started when I got into programming and unix / linux back in the day.

@colinwalker Another eight hours of downtime last night. I’m definitely moving.

@stefp Yeah, don’t know what happened but the whole of the Paragon group was completely down - Tsohost, evohosting, vidahost

@colinwalker It’s hard to find independent reviews of UK hosting companies. The most promising I’ve found today is Krystal. I think they might be the one.

@stefp Krystal acquired Smart Hosting a while back, who is we have moved (back) to.

@stefp I gave up on UK ones in the end, after loads of research. Ended up going with Dreamhost. Possibly not the best but the various offerings soon got too complicated after figuring out what each actually offered!

@vanessa I looked at Dreamhost and Bluehost but my preference was still for a UK based one. I nearly gave up too until I found Krystal. They looked good value and the few comments I found were very positive so I’ve decided to give them a try. I’ll let you know how it goes.