# The blog is moving to a different hosting provider so there may be some downtime or certificate issues during the switch.
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# You may remember that I was contemplating a change to the site's link colour as the current dark blue can get a bit lost amongst the normal text.
I originally went with a type of blue because the default link colour was usually blue (#0000FF) and under HTML5 rendering guidelines the recommendation is #0000EE. I didn't want it to be quite so bold so went for a darker shade.
While I feel that staying with blue is the right way to go I have come up with a shortlist:
- darkorange, #FF8C00
- firebrick, #B22222
- mediumblue, #0000CD
- orangered, #FF4500
I'll mull it over a bit longer and make a decision.
@hjertnes Shared hosting via a company here in the UK. We have a reseller account so it’s with that.
@colinwalker I need to think whether to move my sites. After many years with Virtualnames (great service from the Harveys) I was migrated to Namesco and it’s not great so far. Last straw might be the inability to edit my Wordpress site through third-party apps such as MarsEdit.
@BestofTimes cough - isn’t that table stakes ?
@BestofTimes Our current host has been experiencing more and more problems and performance has been worsening so it was time to move.
@colinwalker You were on Tsohost, weren’t you? I’ve been having a lot of problems with them too. Time to move on, I think.
@stefp Yes, it’s still there at present but not for long.
I was on TSOHost for a while, and it seemed to be OK, apart from the annoyance of speaking to a different person every time I got a reply on a support ticket.
I'm not on them now (on WordPress.com), but I've always found Siteground really good.
@colinwalker how much is shared hosting these days?
@hjertnes Not a clue ? because it’s all part of my wife’s reseller account I’m effectively getting it for free.
@colinwalker is that deal available to everyone ?
@JohnPhilpin hahaha, don’t think she’d go for that.
@colinwalker you never get the order if you don’t ask for it.
@JohnPhilpin thanks!
@hjertnes do you need a lot of technical know-how to handle that? So far all my WP instances are one-click installs, I wouldn’t know how to begin otherwise.
@vishae It's not that hard. But you need to learn some stuff. I guess it depends on if you are willing to learn and how comfortable you are with the command line.
@vishae Learning how to set up Apache, MySQL and PHP was where I started when I got into programming and unix / linux back in the day.
@colinwalker It’s hard to find independent reviews of UK hosting companies. The most promising I’ve found today is Krystal. I think they might be the one.
@stefp Krystal acquired Smart Hosting a while back, who is we have moved (back) to.
@stefp I gave up on UK ones in the end, after loads of research. Ended up going with Dreamhost. Possibly not the best but the various offerings soon got too complicated after figuring out what each actually offered!
@vanessa I looked at Dreamhost and Bluehost but my preference was still for a UK based one. I nearly gave up too until I found Krystal. They looked good value and the few comments I found were very positive so I’ve decided to give them a try. I’ll let you know how it goes.