Landing my Blog on the Moon

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I finally finished moving my sites, including alexwhalley.com across to Hostgator. Why do these processes have to be so confusing?! I may as well have attempted to land my blog on the moon and in fact there were times during the move when I seriously wondered if maybe I had successfully managed to do this! It sure as shit wasn’t where it was supposed to be that’s for sure.

As I write this post my email account (alex@alexwhalley.com) is still up there somewhere, perhaps wondering aimlessly around one of the craters on the north face and until I can get home and reconfigure the mail servers, will continue to wander without direction. I will have the mail account sorted by the end of the day and I thank all of you that have had their emails bounced back. I also apologise for the fact that I know a lot of you have had comments disappear into the ether as they were left whilst the domain name servers were being updated.

My first impressions of HostGator.

Firstly let me state that there are no affiliate links here and this is not a paid review, in fact it’s not really a review at all since I have been utilising their services for all of 2 weeks now.

My first impressions of HostGator are only positive ones, and I cannot speak highly enough of the support system they have in place. Hostgator provide a 24 hour live chat window that has been of immeasurable help to me whilst I struggled with the technical side of moving all my sites and databases etc. The longest I had to wait for a support representative to come online was 4 minutes! Amazing, especially when you want something fixed NOW. They also have an excellent email support service that will get back to you within 24 hours everytime. So far I have had no downtime on my sites, but since they have been running on Hostgator servers for all of 5 hours now, it’s not really a very good gauge for your reference. Only time will tell if their 99% uptime guarantee stands true, but considering my last host went down daily, the standard has been set quite low.

All in all I am very happy with the smoothness of the transition and the assistance provided by HostGator each and every step of the way and I would have no hesitation in recommending their services.

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So Where to now?

Alexwhalley.com is heading into a very exciting stage of it’s life and as I type this I am sitting at IBM on the last day of work. This is not only the last day of this job, it is the last day I will ever ‘have to’ wear a suit, it is the last day I will ever have to work a 9 – 5 job and it is the last day for excuses. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. Stay tuned.

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change”

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