I’ve come a full circle it seems and I’m back on Blogger.com after trying other options with rather disappointing results. They mainly have to do with my photography site speed and performance (and mind you it’s not like I’m getting any web traffic). I have been using GoDaddy.com to host my own site. It is powered by Wordpress engine. The page loads are increasingly slow and the site is really unusable. I believe its due to how GoDaddy allocates resources to its client's sites, but whatever it is or not, I've had it with them. I decided to move my photography website to a hosted solution powered by
Photium.com.
So far I really like the Photium. I signed up for their basic service (they have 3 options available). My new site is very fast, it was very easy to setup and manage and the service is also reasonably priced. Sure, I do give up control over a number of configuration settings I had at my disposal while hosing my own site, but I will gladly sacrifice that for much better page load speeds. I also don’t have to deal with upgrades, code management, etc. It's just easier.
I am now working on finding the best best solution to incorporate a new blog with my new photography website (by the way, you can check it out here) . Photium does not have a very a strong built in blog and therefore I returned back to possibly using blogger.com again. I think this will work pretty well.
My old website at www.annawrobelphotography.com is still alive as of this writing but it will be eventually redirected to the new site on photium. I am also hoping to be able to export my existing blog posts out of wordpress.
Flying Circus Hot Air Balloon Festival, Bealeton, VA (August 2010)
