I was just reviewing my checkbook online and saw the six month fee for Hostgator who hosts Designresumes.com and wausauwhitewater.org. It reminded me what a good investment the hosting move was. Previously, both sites were hosted by someone down in Texas who was very cost-effective – he often forgot to bill at all and a year was only $50.
When Kim Woodbridge was moving my WordPress hosted blog over to the newly launched Design Resumes site this spring, she was having trouble getting it to port. Kim’s a WordPress pro who has ported sites before and it was obvious that my old host couldn’t handle the special needs of the blog. She made the move for me.
This summer Wausau Whitewater’s site crashed during a critical registration ramp up time and we were punting trying to direct people over to the independent blog, Wausau Whitewater Flows and using the Facebook page for information. Kim had no access to the files but she helped remind me what I needed to do to move the site myself and I moved Wausau Whitewater over to Hostgator.com too.
Sometimes we try for the cheap solution or the lowest cost possible but we realize later that for a few more dollars, we could have saved much more in the long run. We do this with just about everything including our career management service choices, opting for the lowest cost when an investment could have made things easier for us in the long run.
Since the move, there have been no crashes and everything I wanted to do with either site has worked. Worth the investment? Oh, yes!
- I will be back to talking more about social media and job searches soon.
Right after I wrote this post, I had to e-mail Kim again because I added some things to the sidebar and it shifted off position. Kim is Worth the investment too! She’s fixing that and other blog-related issues tomorrow.