WAHMaholic

Paulie and I are at it again. We stopped for sometime because we were busy with playing PSX games but now that Chrono Cross is almost finished, we turned to watching series again until our eyeballs almost pop out of their sockets. We can’t get enough of Criminal minds, so we decided to re-watch the entirety, beginning from Season 1. Even though we’re big TV series fans, I feel like we are still missing out on a lot of great series because of our geographical location.

I’ve been hearing so much about Friday Night Lights from my long-time friend who is in the United States and is constantly bragging to me on Skype about how she is able watch it with her Directv subscription. Which makes me wish even more that it is available here so that I don’t look like a clueless cavegirl talking to my friends abroad who babble about TV series that I’ve never even heard of because they’re not showing them here.

I bet Svet would want DirectTV, too, what with the unbelievably wide selection of cartoons they have. Who am I kidding. I would love to be able to watch new Spongebob Squarepants episodes myself and not just the old reruns we have here at home because they already feel so old. But I guess that will not be a good thing for us, as we might spend the whole day just ogling at the TV like our lives depended on it. I’m also sure Paulie will appreciate the adult channels offered by Direct TV. What man wouldn’t?

I have this primitive notion that religious people are very timid and only have syrupy sweet things to day about everything. So imagine my surprise when I was reading Viviene’s main blog and was led to her Blogspot-hosted blog Praise God With All My Heart to find a different side of her, not like the very candid critic that I was reading just moments ago. Here in her praise blog I was suddenly hauled into a peaceful and introspective place far removed from the noisy atmosphere that is characteristic of most of our blogs today.

It’s like having an internal check, a moment of silence with just her numerous articles, all directed at lifting God’s name and praising His greatness. I’m honestly not a religious person, and I expected to squirm at Bingkee’s writings expecting that this would be another one of those blogs that shoves religion down your throat. But that was not the case. All the entries I’ve read so far can only be described as inspirational. Most feature songs and videos (like this one which I find really moving) she shares which has influenced her in one way or another, which you can just listen to and feel a moment of peace.

Back when I didn’t have a website to call my own, I was blissfully unaware of the difficulties of finding a reliable website hosting company that I can entrust my whole site to. I didn’t realize how it would become such an important consideration for maintaining a site, to the point of it being the central point where all my other website decisions would be based on. When I finally learned how crucial this decision is, I started really learning. At first I went for free web hosts, thinking that since I’m just starting, I would save money by doing that and hey, web hosts are  just web hosts. They should all be the same, right?

Wrong.

I have been through it, and it was hell. Anything free always has a catch. And for web hosting, it’s the reliability factor. What dismayed me was people contacting me saying my whole website (or one of its pages) was not working, and I since I am a bit of an obsessive-compulsive when it comes to my sites, I was very much dismayed by my free host’s performance. That, coupled with the fact that I got to talking to some of my friends who have paid web hosts and they are mentioning some really useful features that I wish my free host have.

With that in mind, I set to look for a cheap web hosting which would not compromise my site’s availability on the Internet,  has a cPanel which would let me manage my files easily and which would allow me to host multiple domains in the package without much fuss. It was confusing, looking at all those web hosting sites and not knowing whether or not what they claim on their sales pages are true. In the end, what helped me with my decisions is a good web hosting guide. From there, the concepts are easier to grasp, thus paving the way for finding my ideal web host.

Now, I am very satisfied with the performance of my current host. I would not trade it for anything in the world because it’s cheap and the support is great. I now have no headaches when it comes to maintaining my sites and their stability. All I am preoccupied now is publishing contents to my sites on a regular basis, which is sometimes hard because of my schedule, but that’s another topic altogether.