It’s been a long time since I blogged anything, mainly because life with two small children doesn’t leave a lot of free time! I’ve recently been sorting out the snafu.org.uk domain to move it’s hosting and so it seems like a good time for a bit of an update.
For quite a few years snafu has been hosted by Dreamhost, who are an excellent hosting company, but with the change in exchange rates >$100 a year for hosting was becoming expensive. I also barely used most of the features they provided and the fact I’ve now got a small, low power consuming server at home it meant it really was a waste of money.
This means I’ve taken the route many people have and outsourced various bits and pieces to the cloud 
The email for this domain is hosted for free by Google Apps (and you of course get the calendar etc. etc. thrown in). This blog is hosted by wordpress, which means I don’t have to keep patching it up to date. A small fee means I can use a custom URL. Any bespoke web stuff, of which there is little, can be hosted on my home server. All in all this means a saving of just under $100 a year, which is pretty good.
