I woke up this morning to this email from my web host:
I thought, "Oh FUCK. I just renewed my hosting a few weeks ago (a month ahead of time), so when does this shit actually go down? I knew my site was huge (I was for some reason remembering 1TB or so.), but did that mean after the hammer falls they would just randomly delete stuff to make it fit within the new size limits?
So I clicked on the link and saw the potential $950 charge for the Pro hosting. Not only no, but HELL no!
Naturally this sent my head spinning the rest of the day. Could I delete a lot of the older stuff? I remembered when I outright deleted everything without a backup and started fresh in 2012—and regretted it for years afterward.
I know I have a lot of inane garbage on this blog, but I'm still attached to it, however silly it is. (And truth be told, even I cringe at a lot of the older stuff I've written, as I'm sure I'll do with my current word salad years from now.)
So the next question was could I find a new adult-content friendly host with unlimited storage and move everything?
The thought of moving hosts is about as enticing as a root canal, but I started googling "unlimited storage and adult content friendly." I came up with a few names. Surprisingly, my current host was not among them….so I may end up having to move Voenix Rising at some point anyway if they ever figure out there are—gasp!—penises on this blog. (Frankly I'm surprised it hasn't happened by now, considering the number of times I've had their techs poking around, trying to figure out why the site errors out so much of late.)
So while getting how-to pages on how to transfer domain names and whatnot, I stumbled across my host's main page and saw the "Pro" hosting advertised for significantly less than what the email link showed me.
I paused for a moment to actually verify the size of all this drivel, and it turns out it was nowhere near 1TB. It was, in fact, only about 45GB. Still over the 40GB limit of my current hosting plan, but certainly not the monster I thought it was.
And that $900 pro plan? That was for three years, and I only renew yearly.
Once I saw that, I realized going Pro (which actually wasn't unlimited, but rather topped out at 100GB…at least for new subscribers) was doable after all—especially since I'd be credited with the year of hosting I just paid in advance for.
Crisis averted. Voenix Rising will continue in its present form and at its present home until such time the issue of penii comes up.