How are things on the west coast?

“I hear you’re moving real fine. You wear those shoes like a dove. Now strut those shoes as we go roaming into the night. Well how are things on the west coast?”

Wouldn’t it be fun if I started every blog entry with song lyrics that ultimately have nothing to do with the entry itself? I’ve noticed that from a traffic standpoint the couple entries that I have written to include lyrics from a song end up getting a lot of hits. I don’t know whether it’s because people are actually looking for the lyrics to the track or what, but I bet with all of the weird music I listen to I could find some lyrics to go with every entry. It could be my trademark.

Anyways, I just wanted to let everyone know that I’m moving again. I’m packing up my stuff and I’m moving back to the west coast. My website that is.

When I left Media Temple earlier this year after the frequent outages I was experiencing with their Grid-Service platform, I had some time to explore my options with other web hosts. I finally landed on A Small Orange, at first their reliability far surpassed what I was going through with MT, but after a while I noticed that their uptime wasn’t a lot better, and worst of all the customer service just sucked. Media Temple has an easy to use ticketing system, 24/7 phone support, and an up-to-date status blog that at least mentions any hiccups or maintenance the company is working on. ASO has a status blog of sorts that is rarely updated, the ticketing system is a cumbersome to use, and they have no phone support. None.

When my website is down I like to have a person to call and yell at, and when I announce that I’m leaving with 1 insignificant email, it means a lot to me when a high-up representative from the company gives me their personal number to call and talk to about the problems and then issues me a refund for the last year’s worth of service. To be honest, I felt bad about leaving Media Temple to begin with and despite the issues I had with them I’m proud to stand behind my 10 reasons for going with MediaTemple in the first place.

I have a total of 10 websites to move, some are big, some small, and I already have 8 of them back on MT’s servers. Can you guess which one I saved for last?