I kid, I kid. Well sort of. I like reading about webhosts and actually looking for reviews about them. It makes me feel all giddy inside. (insert weird awkward moment) It is fun if you have a current webhost that you love and is happy with. You feel so happy and comfortable knowing your blogs and websites are in good hands especially after reading those horrific reviews other webhosts seems to have all the time. The sweet happy dream ends and starts becoming a nightmare once you receive an email from your loved webhost in the middle of the wee hours of the morning (granted its normal time there since they are on the other side of the globe) announcing that they will be closing shop soon, ie. next month.

Being the worrywart that I am, I panicked. I started announcing it to the world through Plurk, Twitter and Facebook. I stalked around blogs, forums and my FB groups to check who else was affected by the closing of my webhost. I didn’t want to be all alone in the world when the time to move hosts came. My webhost is transferring us to another webhost and I really do appreciate it. However the described rates/plans in the webhost’s website where we are being migrated to is quite different from the plans offered by my current webhost. So to have an alternative, I decided to start hunting for a good webhost to transfer into.

I checked the usual webhosts both recommended and loathed by people. I checked HostGator, BlueHost, DreamHost, HostMonster, LiquidWeb, NameCheap, LunarPages, ResellerZoom, SurpassHosting and a whole lot more. I liked some of the plans they offered especially the one with DreamHost where you get a year’s plan for only $9.94 if you use the 777 coupon as their way of celebrating Earth Day. The fun ended when I was shown in red letters:

The promotional code is not available in your area.

Eh? How sad. I also applied on Hostway since they have this Tango Reseller program that I found because of SitePoint’s newsletter and a whole bunch of people offering and recommending on their blogs. Who wouldn’t want it? It was a year of free reseller hosting and after the year’s up, you have to pay $200 to continue with the plan. So I went ahead and signed in trying to use a MasterCard that was expiring this year but it wouldn’t go through. I decided to try my Visa which expires in a couple of years and boom, my registration goes through. I receive two emails from them and I try to login the reseller cpanel login. I get in but then I get a pop-up saying,

Contact Hostway Administrators

And I don’t have any activation buttons to click which was shown in the tutorial. I sent their billing and reseller support a message saying the exact thing above but up to now I haven’t hear back from them. Should I now be worried about being billed next year on my Visa even if I didn’t get the reseller thing from Hostway? >.<

So finally by the end of the day, I find one webhost that I seem to like because of the good things I heard about them. A couple of bloggers also use them so I am more inclined to host with them. The only problem now is how to raise the money needed to get the hosting as soon as possible so I can start transferring all my files and websites to them before the servers of my current host go down next month. I have a couple of weeks to raise $120 to get the two-year hosting that I like. That would amount to just $5 a month. That would save me so much in the future. So now all I need to do is find ways to raise the cash. Wish me luck.

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