Kerblam! by Christopher

Wednesday, February 1
Aaaand let's welcome in February!

That went fast.

So, 31 days down, 334.25 to go! Oh the hilarity. February has traditionally been the darkest and coldest month in Britain for quite a few years now; I don't know why, it's just the way it happens.

As you may suspect, I don't like February too much. I can't wait for June, the weather in June is just purrrrfect, not too hot, plenty of sun though and not too cold either. Beautiful, lazy days in the garden with a cold beer and the cricket on the radio (call me an old fart, but I enjoy cricket. I'm actually living in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham whilst I'm at Uni, and one of the country's most famoust cricket grounds is but a few minutes away from me).

So, what's on the table for Christopher this year? Well, on the 6th of February (Monday), my second semester of Year 1 begins back at Uni, so I'll be back in Brum for that. I'm also exceedingly poor already, even with the student loan, so no doubt I'll be looking for a job... Or maybe even crawling back to Tesco to try and get employment with them in Brum even though I swore I'd never work for them again (work is slow this time of year).

I also have loads of stuff to pay :( Domain names, web hosting, all those shenanigans... But at least I'm with one host which is fairly priced, so that kinda offsets the ludicrously-expensive hosting this site is on.

Might as well plug the good hosting while I'm at it: I've been with Thunderhost for about a year now, ever since they opened for business. They're based in America, but even without a credit card (I have a Switch Maestro UK debit card) they take payments no problem. They're So! Cheap! and bloody hell are they good value for money. I started off with just a 3 month package to trial them out, they've had their glitches in the past as they've gotten bigger and taken on new features and more customers - but now they're bloody awesome. I have 2gigs of space, 25gb of bandwidth (which they don't mind if I go over), unlimited parked domains, unlimited subdomains, unlimited email addresses, all the usual bits and bobs, CPanel account management with Fantastico scripts, PHP, MySQL... Loads of stuff! I never use all of it, and that's just the shared hosting. They do dedicated hosting too and all the other packages - and even those are good value for money. I quite literally pay peanuts for my account, compared to what some companies charge for much less.

They're expanding again in the near future to offer loads more professional/advanced services such as uptime monitoring, so I'm glad I got in early and found a good deal :D If you check out their web site you can see all the packages and the prices for them (it's even better value for me because of the strength of the £ vs. the US dollar, but even if it was a plain 1:1 exchange rate it would still be pretty good value for money. Even their support is good, I've always had a fast turnaround on queries or problems (and I'm somewhat of a... challenging... customer). :)

I'm sticking with them for the foreseeable future, and I don't see any reason why other people should go with anyone else for their hosting.

There, that's the free pimpage of web hosting for them - I wouldn't say that if I didn't mean it though, I wholeheartedly recommend Thunderhost if you're looking for more hosting.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to go find something to munch, because I'm starving.

Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted
into his blog at 2/01/2006 05:04:00 PM. Roughly.
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