Well, today I finally got notice that the Domain of my personal WebSite had finally been transferred. A Domain Transfer should be a piece of cake, but it isn't. The entire process was a royal pain in the ass and about 20 days in the making.
But let me start at the beginning. When I moved back from the States to Austria I managed to change almost all of my subscriptions over from my US Credit-Card to a payment option available to me Austria. For some reason I completely forgot about my hosting account. So when the time of the renewal came Kenny vetoed the charge. I talked to a very unhelpful customer service and at first it seemed that accepting the charge and sending Kenny the money via PayPal would have been easier. But, on top of the amount for the hosting account they wanted 35 bucks for the failed payment attempt. And I wasn't going to give that to them, especially since I can get my WebSite hosted by a local hosting company for 1/2 of the amount those guys were charging me. So I decided t go that route.
Due to the fact that the payment had been disputed the hosting account had been disabled. So I actually could neither cancel the account nor transfer the Domain. I wanted to transfer the Domain previous to canceling the account. So I had to talk to customer service. After a lot of back and forth they sent me an email where I could cancel the hosting account and they assured me once that had happened I would have limited access to my hosting account to transfer the Domain.
I get confirmation that the hosting account had been cancelled and that I supposedly had access to the hosting account once again. The important word here being supposedly. Fact is I did not have access to the account. I had to talk to customer service once again. After a lot of back and forth and proving that I am the owner of the hosting account they did unlock the Ad-On Domain and give me the Auth-Code to transfer the Domain.
One week prior I had signed a contract with a local hosting company that costs me about 1/2 of what I previously paid and still gives me about 20 Gig of WebSpace. For now that's plenty for my personal WebSite and I do have the option of upgrading it.
So I send the Auto-Code to my new WebHost. Get an email back within 24 hour that they received the code and will start the process of transferring the Domain. But it might take up to 10 business days for that to occur. Since I wasn't in a hurry anyways it really didn't bother me.
It gave me time to look into options of how I wanted to create my entirely revamped WebSite. After going through all the alternatives I pretty much comes down to 3 choices: Joomla, WordPress or Typo 3. I have some experience with Joomla and WordPress. Both are 2 CMS systems that are fine, but require some third-party plugins to accomplish what I have in mind. Typo 3 on the other hand is a CMS system with most of the tird-party plugins I think I will be needing already built in. The main difference is, that with Joomla and especially WordPress you can be up and running in no time at all. While doing your WebSite with Typo 3 takes a little more preparation but you save that time in the long run when your WebSite starts becoming more complex. So I've decided to give Typo 3 a try.
It's will be quite an interesting experience having to create my WebSite entirely from scratch. It's not going to happen over night, but eventually I will be getting there.
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