Space

I woke this morning to discover that Modwest, the trusty hosts of this site, have altered their hosting plans increasing my storage from 250mb to Two Whole Gigs with bandwidth to match. That’s like living in a tiny flat and paying £100 a week while your neighbour is paying £20 but your landlord is really nice and helpful while his is a dumb mute but even so you could probably cope with a dumb mute but then you wake up and discover your tiny flat has magically turned into a five bedroom detached house with a view of the ocean.

So I think I’ll be staying.

Though what I’m going to do with all this space god only knows. Probably fill it up with vaguely infringing media files or something. Longer podcasts for a start, and better quality (sound wise – I make no guarantees about the content). And other people’s stuff too. Since I’ve got all these rooms I might as well have folk to stay. That radio station idea I mentioned at the end of my How To Podcast tutorial? Anyone actually want to take me up on that?

Right now though I’m still stuck in the bizarre solder checking job and while I’ve got the headaches under control it’s still something of a mind-fuck, being stuck in zombie-land for eight hours a day. I’ve toyed with quitting and asking for something else but the horror is it’s really not the worst job I’ve had this year and it’s steady work for the next week or so, something I kinda need. So I’ll be staying in my room, occasionally gazing at all the new space, maybe putting something large in the middle of it, just because I can, before the inevitable trip to virtual Ikea.

For the record I can recommend two web hosts. Modwest have been great. Been with them for nearly three years and never had a problem. They’re not the cheapest but everything works and their help desk is brilliant. On the cheaper side I’ve been setting up a lot of people with 34SP who seem to be the host of choice for the UK blogger. They’re cheap but their stuff works, running all the weblog software you might want and while the starter package is small you probably don’t need more than 50mb to start with.