I have switched my blog host/webpage many times now. None has really satisfied me yet. I started out with googlepages, but that has such minimalistic (did I say minimal, actually none !) features that I could not see myself sticking with it for a long time. I still do have a page there at the id
http://singh.anuvrat.googlepages.com/index.html
Next I discovered 110mb. A host which provided me with php enabled home page. But the journey ended soo afterwards for a couple of reasons. For one, they do not provide mysql for free – its a paid service. Secondly, I forgot my password. And if that was not enough, I cannot now remember what username or email id I had it registered on! Crap, its one of the disadvantages of having multiple id’s and numerous passwords. I have tried almost all possible combinations of the ids and passwords I have used till now (those that I stll remember), but no luck. I actually doubt if I will ever be able to unlock that id. Damn, I have had weird passwords sometimes – the best being a sentence 22 character long terminating with 3 question marks!!!.
Now began the search for a new host. At this point I was in Switzerland, working as an intern at EPFL, Lausanne. I got into the habbit of reading a lot of blogs, arbitrarily, and then this idea of having a blog for myself crept into my head. Of the two choices – blogspot and wordpress, I went for wordpress. I feel wordpress is so much better than blogspot. But the wordpress.com blog has barely any features. They provide very few blog templates, you cannot edit the css unless you pay for a css custom upgrade package, cannot install plugins of your choices.
It was a stroke of luck that I came across a host that provided me space on web and agreed to install wordpress. I jumped at the oppurtunity and here I am having my blog hosted outside the wordpress.com domain. I am pretty much satisfied with the new host though sometimes their server goes down and it refuses to log me in. I intend to carry on blogging at this site unless I have resources enough to buy a domain for myself and move my blog permanently over there.
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