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Sometimes You Get What You Pay For.

Posted on | September 2, 2008 |

Case in point: Blog Hosting.

I really should have known better, but the cheap skinflint in me got the better of me.

When I started this blog, I was doing it more or less as a hobby and didn’t want to spend any money. Not a dime. There is so much free software available today, I thought I could do it. The one hitch to the whole approach was hosting.

I found a lot of free hosting sites, but most required ads to be displayed. I didn’t want to plaster my pages with ads - especially if I wasn’t earning any of the revenue and didn’t have control over where they appeared.

Then I discovered delishio.net.

They seemed like a winning proposition. They didn’t post ads on my page. They didn’t cost a dime. They even had some fairly nice templates to choose from. I spent a weekend configuring and selecting plugins and templates, and away I went.

Everything went swimmingly for about 8 months, but a part of me didn’t trust it. There was always an inner voice somewhere saying: “You never get something for free.” So I made a habit of exporting my posts every few posts, thinking that I could at least have a backup if delishio ever pulled the plug.

Well, it’s a good thing I did because that’s what happened.

Regular readers of this blog will have noticed 2 things:

  1. The site was down for almost two weeks - without warning.
  2. The site now looks completely different.

Well, long story short - the admin of delishio.net decided that this site constituted either spam or “hardcore porn” and summarily deleted it. Without warning.

I don’t know, maybe this site is like some kind of hardcore finance porn?

Anyway, I can complain ’till the cows come home but the fault is ultimately mine. I paid nothing for blog hosting, and I got what I paid for.

Caveat emptor, baby. Some lessons are harder to learn than others. I read mountains of recommendations saying I should have paid for hosting, and I should have listened.

The moral of this sad tale is to beware the skinflint in all of us, and don’t just go with the cheapest option presented to us; some things are worth the price.

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2 Responses to “Sometimes You Get What You Pay For.”

  1. MoneyGrubbingLawyer
    September 3rd, 2008 @ 12:36 pm

    Welcome back, Joe!

    Hmmm… hardcore finance porn, eh? That’s not a bad tagline!

  2. Joe
    September 4th, 2008 @ 11:12 am

    Thanks MGL.

    It’s good to be back, though it has been a long, strange trip. Well, more of a painful and tedious trip, but still good to be back. :-)

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