{"id":26614,"date":"2016-08-25T10:24:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T17:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=26614"},"modified":"2016-08-25T10:30:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T17:30:01","slug":"okay-time-to-bail-need-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/25\/okay-time-to-bail-need-your-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Okay, time to bail. Need your help."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That headline&#8217;s not as drastic as it sounds. The reality is merely that if you have a website of your own and you like your host, I hope you&#8217;ll let me know.<\/p>\n<p>Both this blog and the upcoming new site are (separately) hosted with a company called JustHost. It&#8217;s been fair-to-middlin&#8217; for the blog. Bit slow. Frequent server errors. But tolerable. (I thought it was my connection at first; my apologies if you&#8217;ve been seeing the same thing.) We chose a budget plan and you gets what you pays for. Might move later.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, JustHost has turned out to be absolutely unworkable for the new site &#8212; to the point where members would have a hard time registering. Their tech support is difficult-to-non-existent. And there&#8217;s no reason to believe everything would improve if we paid for their super-duper-premium plan.<\/p>\n<p>For the blog, we&#8217;ll keep JustHost for the time being. For the member site, though, we&#8217;re still within the 30-day moneyback period. And it&#8217;s time to move on to a host that will give users a far better experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s what we need in a host company<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Must easily support WordPress, including eMember and store functions.\n<li>Must be easily capable of running a Simple Machines forum\n<li>Must have cpanel or similar admin access for we non-technoids\n<li>Must be decently speedy and have good up time. Few server errors would be a plus.\n<li>Must have <i>online or email tech support<\/i> with people who know what they&#8217;re doing. (Phone and chat support alone won&#8217;t do.)\n<li>Must be affordable. I think we could go $15 a month for a really great service, but under $10 would be more comfortable &#8212; IF we can get boffo reliable hosting for that.\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope He Who Fakes It Well will chime in if I&#8217;ve forgotten anything. He put a lot of effort into trying to make JustHost work, to no avail. Bill St. Clair also stepped in to solve other issues. (Virtual hugs to both you guys.) But their efforts made it clear that the host has problems that we &#8212; and you &#8212; should not have to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; recommendations, anybody? Especially welcome are recommendations from you who have beyond-a-blog websites of your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That headline&#8217;s not as drastic as it sounds. The reality is merely that if you have a website of your own and you like your host, I hope you&#8217;ll let me know. Both this blog and the upcoming new site are (separately) hosted with a company called JustHost. It&#8217;s been fair-to-middlin&#8217; for the blog. Bit slow. Frequent server errors. But tolerable. (I thought it was my connection at first; my apologies if you&#8217;ve been seeing the same thing.) We chose a budget plan and you gets what you pays for. Might move later. Alas, JustHost has turned out to be&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/25\/okay-time-to-bail-need-your-help\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Okay, time to bail. 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