I experienced a temporary lockout to the dashboard of this site yesterday. One of the benefits of switching to a self-hosted site and choosing Hostgator (affiliate link)* is their excellent customer and technical support.

I don’t experience many technical glitches with this site but any time I have a question or issue, I have always been able to resolve it with a quick call (or Instant messaging) to customer service.

I had an idea what had happened (plugin update that was incompatible with the wordpress version) and might have been able to resolve the problem on my own with googled step-by-step instructions but calling made it so much easier and the tech was happy to help. (She was super sweet, too).

One bonus during this support call is that I was able to add a security certificate to each of the website I run (including this one) for free. The tech person just went through each one and added it while I waited.

So, yeah, I missed September 12 of this self-imposed 30 day writing challenge. If you’ve ever considered starting a blog or creating a website, I highly recommend doing a self-hosted site (as opposed to something like blogger if that even exists).

I wrote a post about why I switched years ago and those reasons are still valid. Hostgator has been a great fit for me.

*If you follow this link and make a purchase, I receive a commission at no additional cost to you-I really appreciate it. If you’d rather not use my link and still want to check out Hostgator, open a new window in your browser and type in “Hostgator”.