The joy of creating a website externalizing your thoughts and worldviews is boundless for an inveterate blogger like me. I am pleased to announce that my blog site, formerly known as Contents Planet, is now Read My Content. Access the site here -
Read My Content (RMC) is a personal blog site of writer Pawan Kumar Jha. It was founded in 2018 but due to some technical glitches in the initial phase of development, the site got infected with malware, with Google having red-flagged the site, claiming "Unsafe for users" due to the possibility that my blog site was compromised by third-party access.
I had to struggle a lot to fix the issue of my blog site and for nearly one year, though I posted some blogs of my own, due to fear of getting blacklisted, I had to think for an alternate route to save the site from a malicious hacker, as claimed by the search engine. I waited for till the expiration of my hosting service (I purchased a domain and hosting service both from GoDaddy).
I was technically challenged as to how migrating to another hosting service provider will have me to follow some mandatory procedures, and possible repercussions that my website would be in for, subsequent to the migration.
As a matter of fact, migrating to another hosting company was inevitable for me due to some potent reasons -
Deletion of the published posts from RMC and changing the theme did help me revert my website to its old, safe position, but it was indeed embarrassing and very tiresome chore for me. In hindsight, I now tend to believe that it was the stupidest action.
Anyway, mistakes help you build your coping mechanisms. It gives you experience based on which you can learn the knowledge of avoiding repeating the same mistakes and do things more appropriately.
I was finally determined not to continue with GoDaddy due to its exorbitant cost for renewal of hosting RMC. Though I opted for domain name renewal but canceled the idea of hosting service and thought of choosing another brand that sounds more quality and affordable to my budgetary capacity.
Some research works finally led me to DOMAINRACER wherefrom I purchased hosting service for my website, RMC. Before choosing that hosting company, I made research that choosing LINUX option could relatively be a more affordable option than continuing with the WINDOWS version of my website's hosting.
Even LINUX hosting on GoDaddy was beyond my ability to afford. The cost was Rs 5500 (without SSL certificate). Possibly the company is charging too much to compensate the cost paid to its brand ambassador, MS Dhoni.
Telephonic conversation to the technical care executive of GoDaddy led me to no useful assistance to my plight, as the guy over the phone expressed his helplessness about helping me out with price exorbitancy concerning hosting from Godaddy. Then the thought of changing the hosting company was virtually ingrained to me, and it took the shape of determination when I found DomainRacer.
I still can't vouch for service integrity of my new domain hosting company but so far it's been quite a pleasure to have associated my blog website to DomainRacer. Of course, the affordability is the predominant reason for having chosen it.
Also, it doesn't mean to convey my disregards to Godaddy as well. I can understand that they are professionally-driven company and so the price for domain renewal stood irrevocable, as per their mandatory rules and regulations.
It was just my budget disallowing me not to re-subscribe to hosting service of GoDaddy.
Basically what I did was that I renewed the domain with Godaddy but chose another service provider (DomainRacer) for hosting my site.
A dumb YouTube video-log hoodwinked me about migrating to a new hosting server from the existing one, which finally led me to lose all the data of my previous RMC hosted by Godaddy.
Another bitter experience teaching me not to believe simpleton youtubers.
The reason to choose DomainRacer was that -
One of the reasons cited by Google when it red-flagged my previous RCM hosted by Godaddy was that the site lacked SSL certificate, a mandatory essential for any website to avoid getting hacked and red-flagged by Google in future, considering all search engines require website-owners having their website embedded with SSL certificate.
I have no idea if it is one of the marketing gimmicks of search engines to promote sales of companies selling SSL certificates under some clandestine commercial pacts but for me, it was an experience of the fact that buying a new domain and starting off a blog is not actually the inception of your blogging business, as many things that go beyond discussion on youtube videos and web articles can finally land you on so many troubles later when your site is up and running on the web.
Many people still refute the requirement of SSL certificates and have their websites without it.
However, my gut feeling, after my website was blacklisted by Google was telling me to give it a thought and purchase a hosting service that comes with SSL Certificate. On GoDaddy, hosting renewal with SSL certificate was posing an exorbitant overhead to my budget.
On DomainRacer, it came at the cost of just Rs 1200 - a very strong reason for me to choose it.
Please note that I have also switched from WINDOWS to LINUX hosting, considering my site was just a blog domain, plus my need was not so superfluous. I simply wanted a blog site to write content and represent it as my virtual resume to my prospective recruiters.
I was allocated four nameservers by new domain hoster, and based on the web inputs I searched for, I changed the previous nameservers of Godaddy to the new ones allocated to me by DomainRacer.
So far so good!
Regarding the performance of DomainRacer...
RMC is up and running. There are four posts on the website, something I must confess is not demonstrative of my passion as a writer. It's just because of my procrastination that the number of posts on my blog is so low.
One thing I would like to make clear - before subscribing to DomainRacer, I made sure that the reputation of the website holds water, and for this, I read reviews of its subscribers, and almost every one of them talked good things about it, with recommendations. I took the chance. Experience is good so far.
I believe that when you are to look for a new hosting company, do not be oblivious to downtime, for much of it could lead to a serious downfall of traffic counts on your website. I specifically checked the detail of DOWNTIME in reviews before opting for DomainRacer.
Though you guys are at liberty to choose whatever hosting service you may want to go for, but if you want to give a shot to DomainRacer, please go ahead. My experience with it has been satisfactory so far.
Subscribe to DomainRacer.
At last, Read My Content is my blog platform housing posts from different writing genres. The site publishes posts on lifestyle, technical topics, meditation, and posts on some other industrial subjects.
What is Read My Content?
Read My Content (RMC) is a personal blog site of writer Pawan Kumar Jha. It was founded in 2018 but due to some technical glitches in the initial phase of development, the site got infected with malware, with Google having red-flagged the site, claiming "Unsafe for users" due to the possibility that my blog site was compromised by third-party access.
I had to struggle a lot to fix the issue of my blog site and for nearly one year, though I posted some blogs of my own, due to fear of getting blacklisted, I had to think for an alternate route to save the site from a malicious hacker, as claimed by the search engine. I waited for till the expiration of my hosting service (I purchased a domain and hosting service both from GoDaddy).
I was technically challenged as to how migrating to another hosting service provider will have me to follow some mandatory procedures, and possible repercussions that my website would be in for, subsequent to the migration.
As a matter of fact, migrating to another hosting company was inevitable for me due to some potent reasons -
- Not happy of the exorbitant cost for renewal of hosting by GoDaddy.
- Not intended to continue with the hosting service of GoDaddy.
- The remedial course for removing Google's red-flagged message to the website was to delete all the posts, change the theme and do some hacky fixes just to revert my website to its original and safe form (though a dumb resort yet had to do it due to lack of understanding).
Deletion of the published posts from RMC and changing the theme did help me revert my website to its old, safe position, but it was indeed embarrassing and very tiresome chore for me. In hindsight, I now tend to believe that it was the stupidest action.
Anyway, mistakes help you build your coping mechanisms. It gives you experience based on which you can learn the knowledge of avoiding repeating the same mistakes and do things more appropriately.
I was finally determined not to continue with GoDaddy due to its exorbitant cost for renewal of hosting RMC. Though I opted for domain name renewal but canceled the idea of hosting service and thought of choosing another brand that sounds more quality and affordable to my budgetary capacity.
THE FINDING OF DOMAINRACER
Some research works finally led me to DOMAINRACER wherefrom I purchased hosting service for my website, RMC. Before choosing that hosting company, I made research that choosing LINUX option could relatively be a more affordable option than continuing with the WINDOWS version of my website's hosting.
Even LINUX hosting on GoDaddy was beyond my ability to afford. The cost was Rs 5500 (without SSL certificate). Possibly the company is charging too much to compensate the cost paid to its brand ambassador, MS Dhoni.
Telephonic conversation to the technical care executive of GoDaddy led me to no useful assistance to my plight, as the guy over the phone expressed his helplessness about helping me out with price exorbitancy concerning hosting from Godaddy. Then the thought of changing the hosting company was virtually ingrained to me, and it took the shape of determination when I found DomainRacer.
I still can't vouch for service integrity of my new domain hosting company but so far it's been quite a pleasure to have associated my blog website to DomainRacer. Of course, the affordability is the predominant reason for having chosen it.
Also, it doesn't mean to convey my disregards to Godaddy as well. I can understand that they are professionally-driven company and so the price for domain renewal stood irrevocable, as per their mandatory rules and regulations.
It was just my budget disallowing me not to re-subscribe to hosting service of GoDaddy.
Basically what I did was that I renewed the domain with Godaddy but chose another service provider (DomainRacer) for hosting my site.
A dumb YouTube video-log hoodwinked me about migrating to a new hosting server from the existing one, which finally led me to lose all the data of my previous RMC hosted by Godaddy.
Another bitter experience teaching me not to believe simpleton youtubers.
The reason to choose DomainRacer was that -
- Unlimited space bandwidth with SSL certificate totally FREE!
One of the reasons cited by Google when it red-flagged my previous RCM hosted by Godaddy was that the site lacked SSL certificate, a mandatory essential for any website to avoid getting hacked and red-flagged by Google in future, considering all search engines require website-owners having their website embedded with SSL certificate.
I have no idea if it is one of the marketing gimmicks of search engines to promote sales of companies selling SSL certificates under some clandestine commercial pacts but for me, it was an experience of the fact that buying a new domain and starting off a blog is not actually the inception of your blogging business, as many things that go beyond discussion on youtube videos and web articles can finally land you on so many troubles later when your site is up and running on the web.
Many people still refute the requirement of SSL certificates and have their websites without it.
However, my gut feeling, after my website was blacklisted by Google was telling me to give it a thought and purchase a hosting service that comes with SSL Certificate. On GoDaddy, hosting renewal with SSL certificate was posing an exorbitant overhead to my budget.
On DomainRacer, it came at the cost of just Rs 1200 - a very strong reason for me to choose it.
Please note that I have also switched from WINDOWS to LINUX hosting, considering my site was just a blog domain, plus my need was not so superfluous. I simply wanted a blog site to write content and represent it as my virtual resume to my prospective recruiters.
How did I switch to DomainRacer from GoDaddy
I did not want to bell the cat, considering my technical understanding of migrating the site to a new hosting service provider was insufficient. However, research works finally led me to the idea of changing the nameserver of the previous hoster to the new one, and the job was done.I was allocated four nameservers by new domain hoster, and based on the web inputs I searched for, I changed the previous nameservers of Godaddy to the new ones allocated to me by DomainRacer.
So far so good!
Regarding the performance of DomainRacer...
- Much to my satisfaction, so far!
- No experience of downtime, so far!
- A host of features, including cPanel.
Status of Read My Content
RMC is up and running. There are four posts on the website, something I must confess is not demonstrative of my passion as a writer. It's just because of my procrastination that the number of posts on my blog is so low.
One thing I would like to make clear - before subscribing to DomainRacer, I made sure that the reputation of the website holds water, and for this, I read reviews of its subscribers, and almost every one of them talked good things about it, with recommendations. I took the chance. Experience is good so far.
I believe that when you are to look for a new hosting company, do not be oblivious to downtime, for much of it could lead to a serious downfall of traffic counts on your website. I specifically checked the detail of DOWNTIME in reviews before opting for DomainRacer.
Though you guys are at liberty to choose whatever hosting service you may want to go for, but if you want to give a shot to DomainRacer, please go ahead. My experience with it has been satisfactory so far.
Subscribe to DomainRacer.
At last, Read My Content is my blog platform housing posts from different writing genres. The site publishes posts on lifestyle, technical topics, meditation, and posts on some other industrial subjects.
