On Sept. 13, 2010 my e-machine web server died after 7 years of service and it was a solid death. The motherboard fried. I was real busy and didn’t have time to make an emergency out of getting this site back on-line. I did my homework for web hosts supporting WordPress, MySQL with phpmyadmin and found webfusion.com. They provided all the components to host this site for $2.99 per month. Deal.
Now I don’t have to support a system at home running Apache, MySQL etc. I created a new WordPress blog at Webfusion, exported my database using phpmyadmin and imported it to the new database at Webfusion. Then all I had to do was replace the WordPress files via FTP and change a few config files for database locations and passwords. Hopefully the 99.9% uptime claimed by Webfusion is accurate. This site has been down a lot because I have servers I’m paid to attend. I really don’t want to work to keep this site up on a DSL line and 7 year old PC anymore.