For those of you who haven’t noticed in the past couple of days, I’ve moved the location of my web page.  No, I haven’t moved from the actual smalrus.com domain name itself… But I have moved my hosting/domain name provider.  After seven years with my old host, they decided to raise their prices to what I was paying when I first started.

Given the fact that the cost of computing is actually supposed to be coming down, I was less than impressed that as a legacy customer (I was a customer for 7 out of my host’s 9 years in existence) I was given a package that was almost twice as costly as that of a new member.  In addition, I found the site to be overall sluggish in response time.  Thus, I took the opportunity to change my provider.

With this change, I was able to simultaneously and seamlessly upgrade to the newest version of WordPress on the back-end.  The end result was a mass migration of the old site’s entire contents (how I managed to amass 897MB of data on the old site, I don’t know).  My new site has a few more features for me, as well as a dedicated FTP directory that I can just shove any files in as necessary.  The bandwidth and site sizes are also larger, and the response time on the web site is faster.  All in all, this should be a smoother ride than before.

Now… I just need to get back to updating my site with a little more frequency.  Hey, I’m not in school anymore,  I should have no excuse.