Well as most of you know I had been experiencing server problems and that is why my blog was down for awhile and let me tell you I got an education on the techie side of things that I really was not looking for.  So I thought I’d share a few things that I found out why finding a good hosting site is so important.

Years ago, I started out with one of the free blogging sites and yea like most of you did not read the terms very close as I was just excited about getting my first post done.  Well after about 1.5 years of writing posts, getting followers – I woke up one day to find out that it was all gone – no notice – just shut down.

So any of you that are blogging on a free source, go read the  terms as these sites are designed to give people a way of blogging about non-business related things.  You are not allowed to post about anything that could possibly earn you money – and sooner or later they will catch you.  Most of the time how they catch you is someone reports you and with one click you are gone, shut down and no you don’t get a 2nd chance.

Well anyway after this happened to me – I went and got my own domain at Godaddy and while I was there saw what I thought was a deal at the time and signed up for a 5 – year plan on their hosting.  Well, it has been so – so up till recently and some of you have seen that my blog had been loading slow, sometimes it was hard to leave comments, etc.

For weeks I called Godaddy support (and the one things that irritated me is that their support number was not even toll free) and they kept checking thing and we’d try this and that.  They suggest that with the size that my blog was getting that there was a plugin they suggested that on my end would help optimize it better.

I installed this plugin and it would be better for a day of two and then same ole thing.  Well got up one day and tried to login to do a post and all I got was a white page grrrrrrrrrrrr – called support again and they said that they had done a patch on their server for the wp blogs and that as soon as I uploaded the upgrade my blog would be back up and going.

That is when the nitemare started – for some reason I (haha) was the only having issues with uploading this update – so again after many calls to support and 4 days of trying to add the update and then rolling back and trying again and rolling back and trying again – I had enough.

Now here is the good out of all this frustration – with all the sites I have I should have done this ages ago – but I now have my own and all my sites on one hosting site and they were so awesome to work with and answered any questions I had and walked me thru moving all them.

The lessons behind this post is that even as much as you try to make the right decisions with your business – it may not show up right away that it was not and the key is to not let situations like this get you to the point of throwing in the towel (and that did cross my mind but too stubborn for that lol) never, never give up – these bumps are just part of your journey.

What you do is look deep enough and find the good – the positive (getting my own server) out of these bumps and then move on.  Once again I will give you my favorite quotes – “It’s not what happens that really matters, but how you handle it will make all the difference.