Server Issue Revelations

With the recent (actually, current) problems with our web hosting, we've come to a few revelations that have made us feel better about some of the decisions we've made.

When we decided to start a CartBuzz blog, one of the first decisions we had to make was where we would have the blog. We can easily integrate it into the main CartBuzz site at www.cartbuzz.com or we can set it up at a major third-party site like Blogger (owned by Google). We decided to go with Blogger in order to separate our blogging content (which often is about technical stuff like this) from our regular content which involves actual website reviews. In the past day, we've come to realize that we've made the right decision. If our main site ever goes down, like right now, we'll still have another avenue to reach out to our visitors and let them know what's going on. This would not be the case if our blog was hosted on our server because of course, it would go down too.

Though there's always the possibility that Blogger could go down, the chances of that are slim, and the chances of both Blogger and our main site being down are even slighter.

We've also come to the conclusion that we need a backup for our email, hello@cartbuzz.com, which is handled by our web hosting company. It would be very frustrating to not be able to send or receive emails because of server issues and even more frustrating to not know how long those issues will last.

Some good is actually coming out of this whole mess. Who would have thunk? :)