Thanks to my younger brother failing to show up last evening until after 9:00 p.m., I was able to choose then as my early bedtime. My sleep thereafter was partial at best, however.
And by around 11:45 p.m., I was awake enough to want to get up and come here to my computer that I keep in the small room next to my bedroom. Notwithstanding, the most I advanced was to rise and dress, and then lie back down to await the sounds of my brother finishing up downstairs and finally coming upstairs to his bedroom for the night.
He did so right around midnight, but I waited some minutes longer to ensure that he was not going to unexpectedly emerge again to go downstairs for some reason. One of my stepsons even chose that point to have a shower, which was somewhat convenient for me because it would mask any sounds I might make by exiting my bedroom and coming here to my computer.
I am sorry to report that after a little over a week, I still have not taken the plunge and gotten my two remaining domains hosted online. I don't quite understand why I cannot commit. I think part of the reason is because I don't quite feel prepared to begin working on the two websites I would be creating.
And because of that, I think that I may be feeling that I would be wasting precious days of hosted time that I would be paying for, while I continued to mull over just how to proceed in the new direction both websites would be taking.
The websites had existed in a previous incarnation on a single 'baby' account that I had for over a decade with HostGator, but early last week after HostGator shut me down for the crime of using excessive resources ─ and they admitted that it was probably due to a surge of bot and related activity, and not because of an excess of actual human visitors to my websites ─ I made the abrupt decision to sever all ties with HostGator.
I even abandoned my account's entire database, for it was over 11 gigabytes in size, and HostGator does not allow customers to personally make backups of accounts that exceed 10 gigabytes. In such cases, the customer is supposed to beseech HostGator to perform the backup.
I wanted nothing more to do with HostGator ─ I was not going to solicit them for anything whatsoever. I was just glad that for the past couple or so years, I have been paying my hosting fees on a monthly basis, so I never really lost out in that regard. It would have been a bloody other matter if I had an expensive prepaid subscription that still had months of lease-time remaining.
In closing my account with HostGator, I had initially intended to be done with paid hosting entirely. However, I reconsidered because the two domains that I retained (out of the six that I had been leasing from both GoDaddy and Website Palace) each had Google's blessing to display AdSense. Since both of the websites would occasionally rack up a cent or more in AdSense affiliate income, they had some value in that regard.
And maybe if I got them online once more, but heading along different paths from the ones they both were on before, possibly they might even prove to be better earners.
But I've got to get them online! And I need to do so before Google AdSense notices they are no longer active and decides to deny them the right to display AdSense ads.
At least I am almost wholly convinced that I will turn to InterServer as their new webhost. The hosting account I want for my two websites will cost a flat $5 U.S. per month without any need whatsoever of a subscription or contract like every other website offers with some ridiculously inexpensive introductory monthly hosting fee (as long as the new customer pays up front for a contract of one, two, or even three years).
Not thanks! I don't have that kind of money. And I do not want any kind of contract ─ not when I know that a webhost can shut me down at whim as HostGator did (and has done a few of times before over the years).
I want to be free to say to blazes with the webhost if it tries to intimidate me. And I have already proven to myself that I can turn my back on a decade of website background and history and hard work if a webhost makes me angry enough.
As I have reported before, the very last post that I actually published at one of the six websites that I had online with that HostGator account had exceeded 53,000 words ─ that's how much hard work I put into my websites. So to be able to turn my back on the entire database after a decade reveals to me that I cannot be intimidated by a webhost.
My younger brother took a bus this afternoon to go somewhere to hook up with one or two of his drinking buddies, so I know he will not be home this side of 9 p.m. With that being so, I may yet galvanize myself and sign up for a few months of hosting at InterServer before this day is done.
If I do, then overnight when I rise, I can get to work getting things set up ─ the sooner the better. Google AdSense won't overlook my lack of online presence for long.
Today was the third consecutive day with a sunny afternoon, but one in which I failed to be able to capitalize and get in some sunning. The previous two days had me foiled by my younger brother who chose the afternoon to spend time doing some yard work in the backyard. And today, I opted to have a bath early in the afternoon.
A bath for me is a rather lengthy process, for I only have one every four or so days. I am very thorough as a consequence; but it is also when I do some shaving ─ including my scalp, for I am shaven-headed.
Our backyard at this time of year is quickly overcome with shadow, so the opportunity to sun is narrower than it ever was during the late Spring and the Summer.
Enough chatter. I have some exercising I need to do, and it is already nearly 7:30 p.m., so I want to bring this post to a close. However, before I go, I want to mention that shortly after 10 a.m. this morning, I used our Android TV Box to tune in the Millie Weaver documentary ShadowGate (or Shadow Gate).
I'm not going to link to any descriptions of it or Millie at websites like Wikipedia because I don't expect them to offer an impartial account of either the documentary nor of her.
However, you can find the documentary at BitChute, if you are interested.
My brother was not expecting me to tune in the documentary, but he watched it without complaint or comment. That's a good sign.
For myself, it was certainly compelling. However, most of the various entities and personalities that were named meant nothing to me and thus I had too much trouble following what I was being informed about. It was the 'information overload' scenario.
I don't follow politics even here in Canada, let alone the States or the world, so the players tend not to be familiar to me.
But with that said, I found Millie to be sincere, so I believe that she fully believes that what she is turning up is the truth.
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