Long, Slow, Tedious

 When we last saw our hero, she had gotten distracted from her Social Media Strategy course by

Here's the eponymous Host Gator! 

thoughts of eliminating or rethinking her website. 

And by her, I mean me, of course. I will continue with that course today, as it seems I need another day (most of a day, lol) off my feet, but enforce stillness gave me an opportunity to tend to the website issue, which has needed attention for some time. 

First, it's pretty spendy! The Network Solutions hosting package is HUGE, and correspondingly expensive. It's way bigger than I need: of 300,000 mb, I was using 640. For the last several months, when people visited my website, they got a security warning about the certificate. Network Solutions told me I needed to pay hundreds more every year to secure the site. It was the boulder that broke the camel's back. I had been meaning to find a better solution for my website but the giant hassle of it always persuaded me to put it off. Enter my bad knee and two & a half days of sitting around, and I finally did so. 

I wasn't wrong; it's a tedious process, and Network Solutions does not make it easy. It's hard to find the function to transfer the domain name to a different registrar, for starters, and it takes THREE DAYS to get an authorization code to do so. I got that ball rolling but still waiting for that code. Every time I tried to unlock the domain name it automatically re-locked it. Took me like six tries! I feel like they were trying to get me to give up in frustration. 

I've downloaded the 3667 files that took up a tiny fraction of the hosting space, and are mostly pics that Doug stored there as a kind of free Dropbox - which he then never accessed. Those pics have been there undisturbed for well over a decade. (He'll have a cow if I delete them, so I am saving them to a thumb drive, which will sit untouched in a desk drawer until the end of time.) 

I will have to rebuild my website, although I can re-use some of the files. All this is reminding me how much I hate fiddly techie stuff! I'd mix glazes & grind kiln shelves all day instead of this, if I could, but it needs to be done. 
Anyway! Off to do the thing. Hoping for more interesting news soon!