More bandwidth needed for happysteps.net

For some of my regular readers and Entrecard droppers, I sincerely apologize if you were not able to access this site last week. The error message of “bandwidth exceeded” was displayed and nothing more for about 15 hours. It took me by surprise (it meant my site’s traffic increased) but I was disappointed since it happened late in the evening when my web host provider’s technical support was offline. I emailed them immediately and got a reply by noon the next day. That incident made me realize that having a 24/7 technical support for web hosting is very important.

Anyway, I have upgraded my hosting package to allocate more bandwidth for this site, though I plan to change to another hosting provider, and yup, it should have 24-hour online technical support. For those who are having difficulties with their web hosting providers, it might be high time to check out other companies and compare with your current hosting package. Browse on some informative sites such as Webhosting rating to compare some web hosting providers and their different hosting packages. They also have a list of the top ten best web hosts for 2008.

And since I am on my way to hosting this site on a different provider, I find one of their articles ‘Essential Steps For Changing Web Hosts’ helpful. It gave me an idea of keeping a backup copy of my files, updating my DNS records and other basic things to do. I still have until end of this year to do the move, I know it will not be that easy but I hope it will be a smooth change for this blog.