{"id":367,"date":"2010-12-24T20:40:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T00:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.ollieweb.org\/index.php\/2010\/12\/24\/using-greengeeks-web-hosting\/"},"modified":"2022-12-30T11:01:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:01:37","slug":"using-greengeeks-web-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.ollieweb.org\/index.php\/2010\/12\/24\/using-greengeeks-web-hosting\/","title":{"rendered":"Using GreenGeeks Web Hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I signed last evening up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greengeeks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GreenGeeks web hosting<\/a> to handle my various websites.<\/p>\n<p>Several things pushed me away from self-hosting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My server, tucker, is getting pretty old and will need replacement before long.<\/li>\n<li>Verizon had repeatedly disconnected my dsl service from Speakeasy, forcing me to switch to Optimum Online. Optimum did not offer fixed ip addresses, so I was using my employer&#8217;s web access. This was not a long term solution.<\/li>\n<li>I have experienced crashes on tucker several times in the past weeks, again indicating imminent collapse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I spent some time looking at different web hosting sites and decided on GreenGeeks because of price, drupal.org recommendations and seemingly very good flexibility. They offer a 30-day money back guarantee, so I decided to go ahead. Signup and payment was quite easy, though the automatic process hit a glitch requiring a phone call. Not a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>I set up my dns &#8220;A&#8221; record to point to the server address they gave me, and within minutes the site was alive.<\/p>\n<p>I have several more domains to move, so I will continue to post my progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I signed last evening up with GreenGeeks web hosting to handle my various websites. Several things pushed me away from self-hosting: My server, tucker, is getting pretty old and will need replacement before long. Verizon had repeatedly disconnected my dsl service from Speakeasy, forcing me to switch to Optimum Online. Optimum did not offer fixed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.ollieweb.org\/index.php\/2010\/12\/24\/using-greengeeks-web-hosting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Using GreenGeeks Web Hosting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,18,35],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computer","tag-news","tag-web-hosting","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ollieweb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ollieweb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ollieweb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ollieweb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ollieweb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ollieweb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ollieweb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ollieweb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ollieweb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ollieweb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}