Final Preparations for the UK
Final Preparations for the UK

Website Hosting 5

Website Hosting 5
Website Hosting 5

Website Hosting 5

If you want to find the previous articles on website hosting, you need to look back from here to about October 2015, but they will not be numbered. This is the dismal story of a search for a decent website hosting company that has been going on for five or six months; caused me to try four website hosting companies and probably cost me a few years of my life in worry, because my main site, this blog, is about 1,500 posts and pages long with just as many images.

There are two basic rules that I will follow if I ever have to move again and they are never to have anything to do with cube/boxservr or any firm that derives from them and the same with Hostgator and their UK sister company eHost.

Run a mile quickly, because they are great talkers, but poor providers.  I did not get everything promised to me by the first two companies for even a single day during three months, and eHost was even worse – they couldn’t get me up and running in six weeks.

The problem for me, now that I have moved on again, to WHUK, is that I have ‘lost’ a lot of data from the blog.  WHUK promised to reinstall a backup of my blog when they were signing me up, but haven’t done it yet after two weeks.

I find this level of service appalling, but that is what I think of the four UK website hosting companies I have dealt with so far.

WHUK is definitely the best of them so far, but their Asian support staff can be annoying. For example, I have had a support ticket open about my blog for weeks, but they close it as ‘resolved’ every day although we are no nearer resolving the issue than a fortnight ago.

They seem to be hoping that the problem will just go away.

Well, I am here to guarantee that it will not until fixed and for the first time in my life, I have the transcript of the man who signed me up promising that it would be done.

This is a great tip:  always save a transcript of your conversation with support for when push comes to shove.

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+Owen Jones

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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”.

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  1. Choose your host as carefully as you would choose a bank, solicitor or investment vehicle…
    Do you think I’m joking?

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