Here’s the story on the maintenance. I’ve successfully dealt with a couple things, but I’ve made little headway on the biggest issue, which is that my blog is once again outgrowing it’s hosting package, specifically regarding its drive space allowance. It’s not critical yet, but I see where the trajectory is going. Compounding the issue is that my host recently (and suddenly) raised prices and made some other changes for the worse. Previously when I would contact support I felt like I was dealing with competent people who actually wanted to help, now I feel like I’m getting the brush off. In short, I’m looking to switch hosts again. I’ve done it once before and it went pretty well, but it’s certainly a little daunting. For better or worse I already paid my current host for 3 months just recently so there’s not much time pressure.
So, here’s the question: Should I press on with this now, leaving the blog on pause (perhaps into early next year despite what I said earlier), or resume normal operation for now, and tackle this again in a month or two?
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As a maintenance planner for a manufacturing site I would echo those before me. Move when you are ready. Ultimately, there will be an outage one way or another. You can either plan for it or it will come at the worst possible time…
BTW, you’re doing an excellent job hosting this. Thank you.
Thanks for the words of support everybody. After thinking it over a bit (and considering your comments) I’ve decided to kinda split the difference. I’ll resume posting normally, finish off the holiday season with a “nude year” post or two (probably not the best time to work on this anyway since hosts may have reduced staff) and then start on the transfer early in January. Maybe like the 5th or so if nothing comes up. Obviously I’ll try to get this done as with as little disruption as possible, but you never know. And that’s the main reason I want to get it done soon, you never know. It’ll probably be fine, but this way if I do hit a major snag, I’ll have plenty of time to sort it out, look for other hosts or whatever is needed.
Do what you think is best for the blog. Even if there is a pause, we’ll be here when you come back on line. I know nothing of what you are talking about, but I trust you to do what’s best for your blog and your audience.
I think you should do what is more convenient to you.
For my self I would not mind to have a little down now and another in few weeks if this is the best option for you.
if you’ve already paid for three months of hosting in advance, there’s really no reason not to keep posting stuff, if you still have enough storage space. however, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep searching for alternatives to move to when that three months is up
That’s pretty much what I was going to say. Look around for better options, but don’t rush anything. Keep doing what you are doing here in the meantime but keep your eyes and ears open for better opportunities in the near future.
I should add that I’ve already found what looks like a decent alternative. It’s called Hostinger, and I’d be going for one of their “business” or “cloud” plans, as opposed to “VPS” which in their terminology seems to me “here’s a visualized operating system, you handle the rest”. (Confusingly my current hosting is called cloud vps, so apparently these terms aren’t very consistent.)
Still, more time to consider options isn’t a bad thing. I suppose I could do some further shopping around. I do not however want to leave it until the 3 months are actually up, I’ll feel much more comfortable getting started with at least a couple weeks to spare in case it doesn’t go completely smoothly.
Lastly, just to be clear, I’ll need to pause the blog again while that happens, (hopefully for just a day or two). This is just because there might be a time when the old blog has been copied but isn’t yet live on the new host, so anything posted during that time wouldn’t be saved.
Selfishly, I want to see as much material as possible, but, really, I want you to do what is most convenient for you. You are, after all, doing us great favors here.
I don’t suppose there is any way to save interim posts off-line and put them back up on the new server?
I hope I am not getting myself in trouble here, but I save many images here so that I can classify them by types…When I am in a mood for women with glasses or doing athletic activities or such…There are many topics you do not have tags for but which are important to me.
If you wanted to announce it here when you begin posting images that won’t be saved, if it might be helpful, I could save those images in a new folder on my end and send them back to you when the new server is online…
Just a thought in case it might be helpful.