The last time I had a website, I used FatCow to host it. I also registered my domain name through them, which ended up being a mistake. They hosted my site for 2 or 3 years, prepaid, and I honestly had no issues until it was time to renew. Thing was, I didn’t want to renew as I just wanted to take my site down. But they didn’t see it as that easy. Long story short is that I refused to pay/renew, and they held my domain name hostage (and still do to this day, but costs 1/3 what it did 5 years ago). Fast forward a couple of years and I foolishly did the same thing, this time with GreenGeeks. When it came time to cancel, they were “less” difficult. Bottom line, never register your domain name through your webhost folks. This time, I took a different route and registered my domain with Google Domains. As for webhosting, I learned to stay away from any EIG outfits. After reading up about EIG, it made sense based on my previous experiences. So this time around I’m trying Veerotech. So far so good, even though I did have figure out how to use name servers.
My front-end development is currently done 100% on a Chromebook, which does have some challenges. You can accomplish pretty much anything when developing a website, but it does involve a bit more work. I use Caret for my text editor, which is simple enough and utilizes text formatting, but eventually I’ll need an IDE. I used Shift Edit previously, and will probably use it again. That’s all for now, till next time!