I have held a personal website for about 15 years (not always the same one). This is a personal domain, meaning I do not actively offer subdomain hosting, but if a friend would ask to be hosted I wouldn’t turn them away, as long as they followed the rules and guidelines of my host.<\/p>\n
For the past 10 years, I had been hosted by IceGlow<\/a>, but due to funding reasons, she had to stop hosting and recommended hostees switch to DewLance<\/a>, which is where I am now hosted.<\/p>\n Since I didn’t have a physical backup, some content (fanfics, blog posts, and weight loss journey chart) are gone, and I have to recreate everything fresh.<\/p>\n November 2024\u00a0<\/strong>DewLance had a server downage (I could log into the cpanel, but not FTP or access email or the website), and didn’t reply to my support tickets for over 2 weeks, so I wound up switching to NameCheap. I got a price deal, but the package is coming up to renew and since it’s not on sale anymore, the price is 3x what it was last year. I went shopping for a new host.<\/p>\n October 2025<\/strong> Enter this past week. I was able to back up 99% of my site (helps that my old hosting hasn’t expired yet) — all I had to redo is add the photos (each at a time) to about half of the walkthroughs).\u00a0 As of the time posting, the website is back up how it was. The new host is\u00a0Asura Hosting<\/a> (I even didn’t take the cheapest package, though their website says packages don’t have a price hike)<\/p>\n While at IceGlow<\/a>, I had 3 domains: Helpless Laughter, Before Sunset (both no longer exist, so I didn’t link them) and now Always Forever. Before I foun<\/a>IceGlow<\/a> I had some others. though anymore, I don’t remember all of their names. Read on if you’re curious to their meanings.<\/a><\/p>\n Before IceGlow<\/b> Smile Time<\/i> – Just like I’ve always loved Buffy, I’ve also always been a big Angel fan, so when I switched names, I chose Smile Time after the season 5 episode of that name<\/p>\n With IceGlow<\/b> Before Sunset<\/i> – This one could have many connections, but for me, it’s named the same as an episode of The Vampire Diaries (another show I purely adore).<\/p>\n
\nProfecy Girl<\/i> – As a fan of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, I had to name a website after one of Buffy more important episodes (finale of season 1)<\/p>\n
\nHelpless Laughter<\/i> – this is the domain I switched to IceGlow with. As an 80s baby I grew up watching the original Thundercats. I enjoyed the 2011 remake series, but the original is always superior in my heart. One of the last episodes was titled Helpless Laughter, and it’s one of my favorite episodes.<\/p>\n