bryanbird.com moved to a new host

This doesn't really impact any of my readers, but just FYI... I've finally moved my web site to a new host, and now Google is handling my email as well. I'm really really hoping this will solve the problems I've had over the past few years of delayed emails with my previous forwarding services from No-IP and MyDomain. No-IP wasn't too bad, but there were still occasions where I'd receive an email several hours after it was sent, rather than immediately.

That may not sound like a big deal, but more than several times I was waiting for something time-sensitive and it arrived the next day. When I was using MyDomain, I even had one email delayed two weeks. But it was free, so who was I to complain? No-IP, on the other hand, I paid for. MyDomain still handled my domain forwarding though, and recently it's been very spotty. I got tired of my "web site being down" when in fact it was just MyDomain not working.

In addition, I had been using Apple's .Mac (now called Mobile Me) to host my web site, mainly because I found it handy to use its auto-sync feature to keep a local copy on my hard drive. The annoying part was that I had very few options for uploading a new file. Since it doesn't support FTP, I couldn't host my blog there, for example. Instead, my blog had been published to Windstream's servers, on the measly few megabytes that came with my parents' DSL acocunt. I'm pretty sure I was over quota, but they never notified us or blocked me.

Now I'm living on my own and have Time-Warner Cable internet, but trying to use their (again, measly few megabytes of) FTP space has been infuriating. I don't think I ever did get it to log in. Such web space was common back in the days of dialup internet, but I guess now people either use other web page builders or don't create personal home pages, because the people I spoke to at Time-Warner Cable barely knew what I was talking about. And 10 MB? Please. They gave the same amount of space 10 years ago in the dialup days. Server space is cheap now.

Anyway, a couple of my friends use Dreamhost, and they had a really good promotion going on a few months ago, so I signed up with them. I just now got around to moving all my files over and re-assigning all my subdomains.

Does this mean anything for you? No. If you're reading this, you're viewing it on the new host. Notice that, up in your address bar, it now starts with "blog2.bryanbird.com..." rather than "home.windstream.net..." Same goes for my main site. Looks a little more professional, if nothing else.

I'm still in the process of going through my 400+ old posts to find old URLs that had said windstream or alltel to update them to blog2.bryanbird.com, but since the old files are still there, for now, no links should be broken.

And that's what I did today.