I’m glad I saved this.

I didn’t even want this blog; I have a perfectly good one elsewhere that nobody reads. However, since I have acquired it I might as well write it’s history so far, as everything else that I have tried to do since unwisely moving my domain name to WordPress has been a complete failure.

Maybe I will feel better after doing that – but I doubt it.

This all started because Go Daddy decided to raise their email charges by several orders of magnitude.  We don’t want much; just a domain name so that we don’t have to change our email addresses whenever our ISP gets taken over and degenerates into crap, as the one that gave us perfect service for 10 years did. We don’t have a business so we don’t need 99% of what is on WordPress.

Now I realise that we could have left our domain name with Go Daddy – which didn’t cost much – and just had our email accounts with someone else. And if I had realised that WordPress didn’t provide email services itself I might have done just that – but I only had Go Daddy as an example and I supposed that all domain hosts would have similar services. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!

So now it has taken me a week of struggle to transfer the domain name – and pay four times as much for it – only to discover that the ‘free’ service by Zoho can’t be downloaded to my email client and their cheapest alternative that can be downloaded costs even more than Go Daddy’s email service.

That’s a solid week with no email, working all day and half the night to achieve exactly nothing. Score so far: Go Daddy 100%, WordPress zilch, Zoho nada. If my sanity remains unimpaired by this it will be a miracle.

I’d like to think that my next blog will be a happier one but It’s hard to imagine how that could be.

I don’t seem to have mentioned that my browser kept rejecting WordPress sites. I actually tried 8 browsers on 4 operating systems before I could get back in and start trying to clean up the mess. But the 9th browser seems to be working so far.