So I was doing the annual stuff for our website, and decided we should move it to a permanent place.  My house was working well enough, but my internet speed isn’t made for hosting websites.  Add in the fact that I am (*was*) hosting like 6 sites, an email server, and an irc server, and you can see why large images took a long time to load.

As of last night sometime between midnight and 3:30 am, Briggsfam.com and all our blogs are now hosted externally.  I will be scheduling backup jobs to dump to my server still, so we have a safe copy still, but things should be much zippier.  You will notice the difference most when opening the full-size images that we post in our blogs.  Some of you may notice a much quicker uploading of your photos as well.

I found a super duper deal.  I was about to pay $6 a month for 2 years when I decided to price shop.  I found another competitor that gave me $2 a month if I paid for 3 years, and just before checking out, I decided to google coupons for them.  I found an additional $25 off the cost, so I paid $47 for 36 months.  We get unlimited space, unlimited sites and unlimited bandwidth.  Let me know how it seems (speed, etc) via comments or emails.