I signed up for hosting with a new company today, so I should be transferring the site over to the new server over the next couple of days. If the site goes down, it's because I'm either in the process of moving over or having problems moving over. Either way, it'll be back up eventually. Hopefully this whole process turns out to be painless, but since this is my first try at switching web hosts I expect to make some newbie mistakes.

I had been hosted by American Internet Inc. They've been great in the time I've been with them. Wonderful customer service and I can't recall my site ever being down because of a fault on their end. But I'm running out storage space for the site, and so I started looking around at getting a larger hosting plan. American Internet is giving me 150 MB of storage for around $5 a month. I love the price, but it just wasn't enough space.

After doing some research I settled on a company called PowWeb. They offered 5 GB of storage for $7.77 per month, plus they had a summer discount of an additional 6 months free if you signed up for a year of service. With the additional six months it brought the per month cost down to $5.20 a month. They also offer a 2 year plan that comes with 14 months free for a total of 38 months. That plan worked out to $4.90 per month, which is an incredible deal, but it was longer than I wanted to commit to without having worked with this company before.

You can see why I switched. American Internet couldn't come close to matching the value.

So all in all, it should be a good learning experience. If all goes well, you - the loyal reader - will notice no change at all. Wish me luck!