Website Host – Update

Website Host – Update

A few months ago, I wrote a post here about choosing one’s website host with care, because it’s like a bank. The longer you have been there, the more accounts, direct debits, standing orders etc you have and the more difficult it seems to switch to another one.

I have known this for twenty years, but despite that, I am still having trouble with my website host! It really is difficult and frustrating.

I was with Hostgator for a few years, but then the founder sold it, and things started going wrong. Basically, it became slow and unresponsive, so I looked around and found Boxsrv. There were a few negative comments in forums, but not much and they were ‘old’. Besides, the rep I dealt with was very helpful and got my account transferred from HG and running within a day or so.

The first problem arose shortly thereafter, when WordPress announced that it could not create new folders and so could not update itself or its plug-ins. I reported it to support and was advised that I could turn off plug-in updates!

I should have known then that our relationship was not going to work. Now, a month later, I can’t raise any response from them at all.

So, it was back on the trail of a good website host for me. I specifically searched for a ‘UK host’ and chose eHost. I paid them for two years up front and sat back. That was six weeks ago, and nothing happened, except that I received regular, automated emails offering me advice on how to run the account that I do not have!

I spoke to support again for the fifteenth time, and found out that their sister company is blooming Hostgator! When I told him my story, he tried to distance his firm from HG, but he was too late doing that.

I felt like a prisoner in Colditz who spent months digging an escape tunnel only to come up in the solitary confinement block.

And the servers are in the USA, when I specifically wanted my files in the UK.

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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.