When I sold ReceiptWallet (now Paperless), I no longer had a real need for a VPS (virtual private server) as all it hosted was this blog. So I decided to shop for something cheaper (I was paying about $40/month). I found one site and paid maybe $15/month, but after an extended outage and poor support, I switched to another provider, costing less than $11/month. I stuck with them for awhile after a number of outages and IP address changes. Last week, they changed my IP address again and not until I received an alert from the monitoring service I use, did I know they had done this. That was fine as I quickly changed my DNS, but then they had a few hour outage yesterday and the explanation was that they had a networking problem. Enough with the problems!
Well, I finally gave up and switched to another provider. This time, I decided to spend a few extra bucks ($20 per month) and go back to the provider I used in the ReceiptWallet days, VPSLink. While their service is a little more expensive and I don’t get as much RAM, bandwidth or storage space (the only thing I miss is the RAM), I’m crossing my fingers that this is a lot more reliable. I’m either going to pay in money or time to keep this site running as well as my wife’s site for her business.