Clouded in mist

I terminated my web host recently due to not having any practical use for about 2 months. A few days later, Murphy’s law striked. A bug report which I was submitting required me to host system/debugging information somewhere and as a result, I had to settle with one of those free solutions from freewebs.com

That’s always the annoying part, of keeping something indefinitely with no use in the foreseeable future and then getting rid of it, only to require its use moments later. I also miss the convenience of having a place to dump virtually anything I needed to share with anyone, especially with a group of people whereby individually sending them through MSN’s file transfer protocol which seems to have been throttled by my ISP for overseas-bound connections (It is a speculation but it just seems too much of a coincidence that all my local xfers are fine but it rapes itself if the party is overseas, and this only happens to MSN, other forms of xfer such as via IRC is perfectly fine lead me to this conclusion).

Now here’s the dilemma, to acquire a web host, or not. If I were to get one, it would be logical to move my current operations, such as this blog for example, onto it. However, I like Google’s integration across its services, such as Reader, GMail, Blogspot, Writely, Calender and Picasa, which I make use of. The convenience of having 1 account for all of them is really nice.

I’ve been looking at and doing research for the various options I’ve for applications such as blogging if I were to migrate to my own hosting. An attractive one atm which I’m considering is WordPress, in any case, it would be a while more before I decide. Having an email service is also one of the reasons I’m looking for hosting. I use GMail for just about everything but some registrations do require you to use an email address that doesn’t come from one of the various “free” providers.

Currently, I’m looking at solutions from WebzPro Hosting and Host Gator. Undecided between them if I am to get one again, though I’m edging towards WebzPro mainly due to them having a more “professional” feel, but it appears to require some activation by phone, which made me kind of hesitant, mainly due to my bad experience regarding phone-related IT services. ISP tech support anyone?