If you’ve visited over the past week, you’ve probably noticed, or been a bit perplexed to notice, that this blog has been down.  That’s because I was hit with a rather nasty batch of malware on my site.  Long story short, since all my websites were down anyway, I figured it was time to move web hosts.

I am so glad that I did.

I was originally with Godaddy.com – a good web host provider with great prices, but their support was terrible.  And that was confirmed when I tried contacting them about my virus issues.  I had to wait 24 hours to receive a response; a response which turned out to be a standard computer generated response that didn’t answer my questions at all.

Enter Google Search.  It didn’t take me too long to realise that I really wanted to host with WPEngine, but just couldn’t afford them.  More searching showed that iPage was my next best offer.  They offer LiveChat support – which is equivalent to having my own tech guy in my pocket 24/7 to coach me through the move step by step.  They also offer great malware scans and back up support too.  I managed to lock in to all their benefits at the great price of $2.95/month for two years. And it’s been fantastic!  It’s been quite a move across with me making a few mistakes – but every time iPage tech support has helped me politely and successfully.  It’s been simply a brilliant experience.  So, now I bring you – hayesfamily.co.za/blog – free of malware and happy to be back up and running. Thank you iPage!