The Barnabas Venture

I have today transferred our website to the wordpress.com blog.  I’ve been working on the new site for the last two weeks.  WordPress.com is now the official host of the Barnabasventure.com.  I cancelled my service with the Montreal-based web-hosting service yesterday (effective Mar 1).  What surprised me most was how easy it was to open up Google apps e-mail with wordpress.com after having connected my website with the domain name barnabasventure.com; e-mail was down maybe an hour at most.  Also I solved the problem of not being allowed to upload restricted files at wordpress without a space upgrade (mp3, etc.) by opening up a free website at home.officelive.com (500mb space limit; 10mb files size limit).  See barnabasmedia.giving.officelive.com.  Also I was expecting up to 48 hour transition time.  But the actual transition was almost instantaneous.

Cost per year (not including domain name registration):

Domain hosting from wordpress:  $12.55 Canadian ($10 us) per annum

E-mail:  Google apps standard edition, $0.00

500 mb Webspace from MS Office live:  $0.00

Total per annum:  $12.55

Savings:  I was paying month to month $16.75 (tax inclusive).  (A one year contract was $155.40 or 12.95 per month before tax).  Savings per year:  155.40+ 5% GST = $163.17 – 12.55 = $150.62 per annum savings.

Peter