Note of no interest to most, but yesterday I migrated this site from its host of twelve years to a new one.
About twelve years ago, Erin Clerico at Weblogger (who helped me move my site from Manila to WordPress) let me know he was getting out of the hosting business. I found Pagely and moved the site there around May 2013. And it’s been there and happily hosted, through good times and bad, since.
So why move? Well, Pagely’s business model shifted to a more professional customer base. They were very kind to grandfather me in—for years!—at something close to the rate I was paying when I joined. But it became clear that their service offerings were no longer aimed at individual bloggers. No shade, and good on them for focusing on more lucrative segments.
I was trying to figure out what to do when Doc Searls serendipitously pointed to his host, Pressable. I asked a few questions on the site, their staff was instantly responsive, and they provided a fully automated migration path that even moved non-Wordpress content from my site to their staging, all in less than 15 minutes. A little white-knuckle DNS work yesterday and I was all set.
So farewell Pagely, and hi Pressable. This blog has been around for more than 24 years, and I’m glad it has a home that will keep hosting it for many more.