If you have a blog or website or are ever thinking of starting one you need to pay attention.

Changing a host is not something you want to do very often. It’s akin to moving to a different house, and I don’t know anyone who actually likes the process of looking for cardboard boxes, beginning to pack, renting a truck, asking friends to help you move, then loading everything in a truck, and then doing the reverse once you get to your new house. Ok, perhaps it’s not quite as burdensome as physically moving to a different house, but I think you get my point.

It’s not something you want to do too often.

When I first began my journey in the blogging world I was using Blogger/Blogspot, a self-hosted solution, which really doesn’t give much options. I used that for about two years before finally making the big jump to Dreamhost. Somebody recommended them and I bit. Unfortunately, it was a mistake.

Here’s why I left Dreamhost and moved to Bluehost.

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As you may have noticed, there’s movement on this site again! Before I started writing again recently it had been around 240 days since my previous post. In the world of writing and blogging, that’s sort of a sin. But I had some good coaching conversations with people, I had someone help me resolve a tech issue I was having with the site itself, and now I’m invigorated and back at it.

I’ve been thinking through this process and I want to share with you what’s coming so that you’re not caught off guard.

1. Writing three times per week. I know for some people this might sound like bad news, but hopefully you all will find the content to be helpful and useful. Just so you know, I have the goal of having new posts on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. On Wednesday’s, though, I’d like to put up some kind of video feature. So I’ll have very little writing, just a video that I think you’ll find helpful along with a few comments.

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