My blog is back! My site has been down for a while as I decided to switch hosts along with getting off of wordpress to write my own CMS. Since my site is back I'll try to update this blog more often (I know I always say that but this time I really mean it). I'll explain why I decided to make all these changes.

iPage sucks

iPage has got to be one of the worst web hosting sites out there. I should've realized this when their prices were way too good to be true. Their database servers are ridiculously slow. It would take forever for MySQL queries to complete making wordpress even slower than it already is (I'll get to that). iPage from what I've read is meant for the "simple" user but I'm pretty sure any user wants fast data access and doesn't want their page taking 20 seconds to load their blog. Another thing I hate is that it doesn't support SSH access. Again they claim it's because it's for simple users but this makes editing files on your site a pain because then your forced to use their crappy CPanel web based file editor or you have to use FTP to upload the new files. This makes quick touch editing very troublesome. I honestly can't think of one positive thing about this site in comparison to other webhosts. It's slow so "simple" users will hate it. It has no advanced features so advanced users will hate it. It's cheap I guess.

SiteLock sucks

Getting away from SiteLock is one of the reasons I switched webhosts, although I know SiteLock is available for other webhosts I just don't like how they do business. When I was on iPage I got a call from a SiteLock representative saying that my wordpress installation had been compromised. This person wanted to charge me $100 to delete a couple of files! I was shocked when this person told me this. Also he wanted to charge me $500 dollars to "harden" my wordpress installation. So I went to look up what exactly is "hardening", and there is a clear tutorial on the wordpress page http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress. This was probably what they were going to do. He was going to charge me $500 to do this. I was able to catch this however I feel bad for people that aren't that familiar with computers. With these kind of people SiteLock will use scare tactics to make them think that they're precious personal blog is under attack and if you don't remedy this immediately BAD things will happen. And then overcharge and make them think they are saving them from disaster when in reality they just need to delete a few files and/or reinstall wordpress.

Wordpress sucks

The biggest reason I decided to write my own CMS than use Wordpress because I found so many problems with Wordpress. First of all Wordpress is SLOW. I mean everything is slow, from the blog page all the way to the admin panel. I feel like I'm working in slow motion whenever I use Wordpress to do anything. Also making small changes to your blog in Wordpress becomes really painful. Oh but don't worry you can choose from 1000s of plugins to fit your every need possible. Pretty soon you'll have like 10 plugins where you have no idea if they're conflicting with each other or causing security issues. Oh yeah that's another thing Wordpress security sucks. You HAVE to do yearly "hardening" for your Wordpress or else hackers can get into it. This is because Wordpress plugins/themes are security risks! Oh wait they're plugins to fix that to. So after a while your going to have 20-30 plugins for your blog. Don't get me wrong wordpress is great if you just want a simple blog that doesn't need to be customized to fit an exact requirement. However if you want a serious website used for business or personal use I would stay away from Wordpress mostly for the fact that customizing becomes a big plugin/security fest.