Gosh, time flies! This blog had been quiet for 4 long years, and I thought I just updated it recently.

Finally I have migrated this blog to my own server at Digital Ocean (https://www.digitalocean.com/).

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I migrated this WordPress blog manually without using any migration tools. Hopefully somedays I will write down in my blog on how I did it.

Previously this blog was hosted at private shared hosting service by https://www.arvixe.com/. I signed up for that hosting service exactly 10 years ago on 24th November 2011. It was pretty good as I only need to pay USD$ 4 / month (USD$ 96 for two years) and I get unlimited bandwidth and unlimited storage, and one free domain name.

However, from November 2017 onwards, they started to charge me USD$ 5 / month (USD$ 120 for two years renewal), and today (24th November 2021), I am supposed to renew the service for two years at USD$ 145.20, but after I made some complaints to their customer service, I was given 10% discount and thus I only need to pay USD$ 130.68 for two year renewal.

Should I renew it?

My friend who introduced this hosting service to me is still being charged USD 96 for two years.

This hosting service once had very high rating but now there had been many complaints after it was bought over by other hosting company.

What I dislike the most is that it does not allow us to use the free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate service. My previously blog can only be access via http connection but not secured https connection.

I have now transferred out all the websites, including this blog, that I once parked there.

I am still undecided if I want to renew it or not. The main reason to continue would probably so that I have a cPanel to play around.

So should I renew it?