Ok I needed to unlock this thread, move inges post here, and now reply to it. It's more like an update to my original post than a response to it though lol I will also be updating the donation page right now too.
Alot has happened since I made the decision to switch hosting providers....we added new sites to our family: Dour Sim and Poison Pink Lemons (PPL isnt done setting up yet)
I have been doing calculations once a week to see if we'd be able to fit under one of the two plans that the offshore hosting provider offers.
If I move to them as I had planned, I will have to choose the $99/year plan instead because we are currently right at the edge of the available space on the cheaper plan. I asked them why they don't offer more space or more plans and the customer service rep said:
Josephine: it is because we want to prevent file sharing websites in running in our shared servers
Josephine: if you are doing normal web hosting and email with a an applicaton running, 10GB is more than sufficient
Well not if you are hosting sims2 download sites lol
Anyways, I have been comparison shopping to look for alternatives...I have done this so much my head is constantly hurting and my eyes ache lol....and I've been asking customer service people lots of questions to make sure I have all the info I need....
I found 2 alternatives that offer me about as much as my current host offers me for a cheaper price
If I choose to move to the cheaper of the two, it will cost $95/year and they have unmetered bandwidth and lots more space...and all kinds of other great stuff. Plus they have excellent customer service (the live-chat guy spent half an hour answering all my questions lol) and they accept PayPal (which will make it alot easier to pay them since I won't have to move the donations out of my paypal account). And I can always upgrade if necessary (I highly doubt it will be though lol)
So I won't be moving to the offshore hosting provider, I will be moving to
1 of the 2 alternatives I found and still getting the unmetered bandwidth and everything else I was looking for.
The goal is now
$95 and we are already half way there....It is cheaper to pay for a year in advance and there is no setup fee if you pay for a year....I could still use donations if any of you want to help out
Once we move, no more donation buttons! Yay
The only problem with the $95/year plan: I can't move all the domains at once, I have to setup the main one first then I can addon the other ones. This just means maybe a few days of downtime for our family of sites and I will have to make sure to do the moving before our time with our current host is up (before March 1), but I was planning on doing it ahead of time anyways
Now on to the thank-yous
This is a list of forum members who have donated to help us move, I really appreciate your help, you are wonderful!--blue soup
--henrik
--him666
--tmsize
--Taeryunn
