I mentioned last week that I was shopping for a new Web host. Today I ordered two servers: one from Handy Networks and one from WireSix. They were both recommended to me by a good friend of mine, and were recommended highly on WebHostingTalk. I looked at a lot of companies during the last week or so, and I’m hoping this will be a better bet than my current host. I intentionally split my servers up so I could have agreements in place with more than one company, though I have full confidence in both of them (and they actually recommended each other as well). If anybody’s shopping for a new host, let me know and I’ll put you in touch with the folks I dealt with there. They’re both smaller companies compared to the big boys (Handy is larger than WireSix) but they have really smart people running the show. But I’ll basically just be paying a bit more than before, but will be getting much better hardware out of it.
Needless to say, I’ll be busy as heck these next few weeks while I setup the servers and start migrating sites over to the new server (I have four weeks on my old server as I’m paid through the month). Between that and a pile of work projects, I’m just totally buried right now. Just need to quit sleeping.