mybigadventures.com

Every few years, the website hosting account comes up for renewal and so sparks a sudden flurry of work to keep the site online, and to fix a few bugs that have been giving me a headache. Occasionally if I have some spare time I even try adding a new feature or two. This year the renewal came up and everything was needed at the same time, hosting domain renewal and even the SSL certificate, the cost was a bit eye watering. As is always the case with these things, the renewal price was signifcantly higher than the one offered to new customers. Last time this happened I bought a new hosting package from GoDaddy, downloaded everything, then reuploaded and created all the databases again from scratch. I figured I was going to have to do something similar again so started the download in preparation.

I decided to shop around before going straight back to GoDaddy and came across a great deal with IONIS, in essence you get a free domain and SSL certificate with the hosting, and the hosting account only costs £0.08 p/m for the first year. Bargain! What followed was a little bit of downtime and stress as I migrated the whole site across, but now everything is back in place and working. We're now hosted in the UK so it may even load a little more quickly.

I added a new 404 page to handle any broken links. Let me know if you come across any bugs!

Keep safe and well and we'll get through this lockdown together soon.