As I announced in a previous post, I’ve been looking for a new host for this blog, driven primarily by a need to have consistent up time, but at the same time piggy back some slight performance boost as well as offload some of the worries and concerns that come from self hosting.

I looked around and considered a few providers included the one that is prominently advertised on the blogengine.net site, and the one that ultimately got the whooping $30 for 7 months worth of business, SeekDotNet.com.

I can’t say it was an easy process, believe it or not. Of course it is all said with a grain of salt. I was expecting to pay for the service, get the site IP, FTP account, etc, and be on my way in 10 minutes, tops. After a couple of hiccups and some overseas support, the site was up and now fully ready. I do have to say that having overseas support in a different time zone kindda worked to my advantage in that I got to communicate with them in what is their “core business hours” and what for me was the time of day I can actually dedicate to these fun things.

Thanks to those who emailed/left comments with suggestions and offers, but by the time the post where I mentioned my need had published, I was in the middle of my support process and was determined to get it to work.

So my next task relating this matter in an indirect way will be to install/upgrade to BlogEngine.NET 1.4! Wish me luck!

In the end, I am happy in that I get what I need and for cheap! Can’t go wrong with that deal.

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