pcnelson.com

I have for many years hosted pcnelson.com on WebHostingBuzz. There is a considerable barrier to changing ones host for their website. It takes no small amount of time to move files over and get your email working on a new host. There is also the added chance of missing important emails as DNS changes propogate over the Internet. But my inertia was overcome a few weeks ago by some fairly major problems that I had with WebHostingBuzz. The problems had always been there, but I was able to overlook most of them until my email bounced for two days with not much response from their tech support. I have since been in contact with their COO, Matt Russell who made me fell much better about the situation, but by that time the change was already made.

I spent an evening searching the Internet for a new hosting company which is an overwhelming task. So after just a few minutes I decided to ask who my friends were using. A quick, “they are awesome” from Robb and I was half way sold. I was pushed over the edge when I noticed that my GTD mentor, Merlin Mann was a user of A2 Hosting.

I did a quick signup and began to upload information. On a whim I decided to ask A2 if they would be willing to let me relay email from my spam firewall at the office. After thoroughly expaining what I wanted to do they actually made it happen. The opened a port to my Barracuda spam firewall, made the DNS changes and wow - now I am filtering all my email through this box.

I really could not believe that they were willing to make this happen for me since it required a specific server setting to allow the relay. Thanks A2 and I will send all that I can your way.