You get what you pay for. How many times had I heard that. Yet, I blatantly ignored all such words of caution and continued with my previous webhost (Reseller Scene), even after there were rumors of it going kaput, and even after several very long downtimes. I stuck with them, and got stuck in the middle last month (January) when those guys simply (seemed to have) switched off everything at their datacenter (if they had one). I was left with all my website content lying with them with backups for only a couple of websites. Thankfully, I had backup until November’09 for this blog, the rest of which I got from Google Cached (Thanks Google!). Unfortunately, this means no posts for January’10. I’m back to GoDaddy’s webhosting (which, btw, has a very bad control panel), which I know will atleast be reliable and up and running for the larger part of time.
Why did I take light years to come back online, then? The reason for that lies in the fact that I have returned to India for good, and the website was completely ignored for many days while recovering from the jet lag, and getting things into order here at home. Now that my blog is also up n running, it feels so good to have everything in place for once in life.
Till the next time!
Edit: Now on WordPress’ blog hosting. I’ve setup a redirect from http://vsanjay.com/ to http://sanjayvaranasi.wordpress.com/ . Not only is this great for reliability, it also makes great sense for the pocket!
