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Moved to a new server

Filed under: Site management by Hari
Posted on Sat, May 2, 2009 at 22:18 IST (last updated: Sat, May 2, 2009 @ 22:18 IST)

If you're able to read this message, congratulations. Your ISP has updated their DNS records and you can now enjoy my blog once again in its full flavour.

Drew has been an excellent host for the last couple of years for my two domains and provided great support, never declining any request for the guests on his server. And all that at zero cost too. In fact, most professional web hosts could learn something from him. I felt extremely safe hosting my websites on Drew's server because of his immense knowledge of *nix, networking, acute security consciousness and helpful nature. Seriously I doubt whether any professional web hosting provider can give me that feeling, because it's a matter of trust and personal relationship which no amount of 5-star reviews, assurances or marketing jargon can provide.

Recently Drew felt that it was time to move on as the cost of maintaining his own dedicated server was not justifying itself and I agreed entirely with him. There's no point in paying for a dedicated server if you cannot use it to its full capacity. Also being a server-admin full time must be quite a chore in additional to a regular job.

Now that I am back on shared hosting I will miss his personal touch while dealing with any issues that might arise. To be fair to my new host, the migration went off pretty smoothly even though my hosting account activation was initially delayed for verification purposes.

If you want to know the name of my new host, let me know and I'll send you an e-mail.

2 comment(s)

  1. Thanks for the kind words Hari. :-D

    Comment by drew (visitor) on Thu, May 7, 2009 @ 00:34 IST #
  2. Drew, you deserve it and more for all the help you've given me and other friends hosted on your server. :-)

    Comment by Hari (blog owner) on Thu, May 7, 2009 @ 07:51 IST #

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