My blogging journey

As one gets into the world of blogging, he/she is actually embarking on a journey, from learning how to make that very first post, to getting familiar with the blogging platform’s environment, or trying to tweak the theme. Later on, that journey would continue deeper into the blogosphere as one goes into interacting with readers, visiting other sites, and dealing with the technical aspects of maintaining the site.

Personally, my blogging journey for happysteps.net has been rewarding and inspiring as it steadily gained wide readership and visits. The technical aspect has not been that pleasing though, my hosting company is just not reliable and the technical support can’t be easily reached. There would always be downtimes and the technical support is only available during office hours on weekdays. Yup, you can’t count on them during weekends. Thus, if something happens over the weekend, you have to wait for Monday to get some reply from them.

The worst downtime happened middle of February for this blog which made me decide to finally transfer to another webhosting company. I got very upset with this blog being inaccessible for more than 3 days and when it came back, the latest post was dated to last year. Thanks to my techie bro for guiding me about what to do, and no, the hosting company’s technical support didn’t do anything about it, or maybe they simply didn’t know what to do.

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