{"id":5702,"date":"2017-09-06T13:45:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/?p=5702"},"modified":"2017-09-06T19:22:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T23:22:01","slug":"a-surprise-from-arvixe-talking-pricing-and-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2017\/09\/06\/a-surprise-from-arvixe-talking-pricing-and-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"A surprise from Arvixe (talking pricing, and the future)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So hey&#8230;I&#8217;m back. Luckily no one emailed me screaming &#8220;OMG YR DOMAIN EXPIREDZ!!!!11111&#8221; I had no idea today was the day I needed to renew the domain (for $9.95), and Arvixe sure didn&#8217;t bring it to my attention via email.<br \/>\nBecause of that, one of their admins actually brought it back up for free. I greatly appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s a bigger headache that&#8217;s coming in November, something that could affect this entire website. And that is the hosting price. Back in 2015, I remember it was <strong>very<\/strong> high debatable if it was worth spending $60 on this tiny thing.<br \/>\nThat price has jumped to $96.00. And just like the domain fee, I never got an email alerting me of this price. And when I confronted them about it, they stated they sent an email out to all of their customers, yet &#8216;a glitch&#8217; (as they claim) caused it not to appear in my account.<br \/>\nMy guess is they did a batch send, and since I didn&#8217;t get it, tough luck to me (even though it was <u>extremely<\/u> important that it should&#8217;ve come to my attention).<\/p>\n<p>And the reason from the price spike was to &#8220;stay competitive&#8221; in the market.<br \/>\n(dot dot dot)<br \/>\nMy bullshit meter just went off the scale. This&#8230;is the SAME pathetic excuse ARK&#8217;s devs claimed why the Early Access price jumped from $30 to $60 (before release on Steam)! It seems corruption in gaming has found a way to weave itself into real life.<br \/>\nThough, I feel the person I talked to, knew absolutely what I meant(and could feel my frustration). So to blame them, would be wrong. Don&#8217;t shoot the messenger. Clearly this &#8216;move&#8217; was done higher up.<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\nOf all the times to wish I could go back in time, and stopped myself before I fucked up by bitching at angry about claiming he only used the site for coding, it would be now. Because he could possibly help me find a cheaper hoster to park this thing in.<br \/>\nHere I felt $60 a year was bad enough, and now they want $36 more!?<br \/>\nThankfully I talked it over with my folks, who were willing to pay the $36 extra charge (while I continue paying the $60). This pretty much saves the website &#8217;till next year.<\/p>\n<p><em>However<\/em>, even after that&#8217;s done, I feel I still need to find a better alternative. Might just go back to GoDaddy(where this mess started). I actually liked it, but angry didn&#8217;t. I think we left because he couldn&#8217;t SSH in or something like that. Pretty sure it was something Linux-related. I have no need to do that, as I&#8217;m not a coder. Though, I feel of any hoster I find that could be a candidate, has to be able to also host in Linux instead of Windows (I feel it&#8217;ll fuck something up).<br \/>\nI will also try to consult one of the forums I have an account on (or even Discord).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So hey&#8230;I&#8217;m back. Luckily no one emailed me screaming &#8220;OMG YR DOMAIN EXPIREDZ!!!!11111&#8221; I had no idea today was the day I needed to renew the domain (for $9.95), and Arvixe sure didn&#8217;t bring it to my attention via email. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2017\/09\/06\/a-surprise-from-arvixe-talking-pricing-and-the-future\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5702"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5708,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions\/5708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}