Michael Hainsworth

HAINSWORTH.COM switches web hosting providers to Bluehost.com to improve site reliability after sluggish database response from previous provider, Pair.

HAINSWORTH.COM now lives in a dee-luxe server in the sky.

If you’re seeing this, then you’re using our new server. I decided to pull the plug on my relationship with Pair after more than a year of “Error Connecting to Database” messages and useless technical support. They’d tell me the database server was functioning just fine, and would ask me to replicate the error and send them the URL. Of course, a refresh of the page would eliminate the error — but will a visitor bother or just walk away? Most likely the latter.

Bluehost is recommended by the people behind WordPress, the software used to run HAINSWORTH.COM. I’m not finding the site comes up much faster, but I’m hoping the service is more reliable. The back-end to BlueHost, the Admin Control Panel, is far more robust. BlueHost is also cheaper: by $2/mo and offers unlimited disk storage and bandwidth — and offers a free domain name.

I might take them up on that free domain name offer and start an unrelated website one day.