Mind is scattered all over the place today, and I find myself wishing I’d had more time this morning for a hearty breakfast. (not to mention something in the cupboard that resembled a hearty breakfast…. everything is pretty much dinner-oriented until I visit the grocery again.)
Yikes.. Electricity this month was $105, compared to last month’s $73. quite a leap… With the way I’ve been cranking the A/C these days, I wonder if I’ll crack $120 next month.
Well, I started the ball rolling for my new host… I went with Rydia.net/ for a few reasons.
- They got back to me via email *fast*. That counts for a lot in my book. I want people that are responsive.
- Downtime log seemed reasonable (especially compared to my last host, which had a multi-day crisis earlier this year.)
- The price is right – $10 a month for all the features I want, and more bandwidth than I foresee needing, even if I stream audio and video 24/7 for newtcam. I like the idea of doing subdomains easily, too.. now I can have newtcam.scottobear.com, or whatever.
Also tempting was NearlyFreeSpeech.net. It’s $1/GB for bandwidth (actually 1¢ per 100th of a GB), and 1¢/MB/month for disk space. You simply send them a deposit (as little as $5) and when you’ve used that specific amount of bandwidth or disk space, they take out a penny. Thanks for the advice, Jordon! If I wasn’t such a data storage piggie, that would’ve gotten my vote.
Speaking of hosting, all sorts of nifty goodies at DNSstuff.com