No, you’ve got it. Don’t give up. De-blog-cle. Debacle. Blog. Deblogcle. Anyway.
Here is what happened last night.
I tried to load 5 photos onto the blog. Three worked, and two failed. And they kept failing. My blog has definitely had moments of being finicky so I went to my age old methods of restarting things, checking for updates, etc. I did find an update but it also failed. A full restart of my laptop didn’t do it, either. Something was up.
So I hopped on the Bluehost chat and was swiftly informed that I had hit my space limit and needed to upgrade. This has happened before, and in every case, I have reminded them that my original subscription paid for unlimited space, and they have then opened up more space to me, and life goes on. I think of it like unlimited data on our phones, where it really is unlimited, but after a while, you hit a wall, and it slows down. When my blog space “slows down” (ie doesn’t let me post photos anymore) I get in touch and they stretch it for me. The end.
But this is no longer the case. He insisted I had to upgrade. He told me the annual costs, and it is a literal quadruple of what I am paying now. And I don’t mean I’m paying $10 and now I have to pay $40. Thats not where we’re at anymore. It’s not that simple.
The agent was actually super kind to me. He recognized that I was a very long running client and he assured me he could note that in my information so when it came time to renew in a year, I would get large discounts. Like, 30-50% off. But it felt too up in the air for me. No guarantees. And even with the best option of receiving 50% off, it is still doubling.
And if I bought it full outright, the whole thing, for the quadruple cost, there is still a cap on the amount of space I can have.
So. We’ll see if I can even post this today. But I have some thinking to do. Whether I delete the first five years of the blogs. Whether I take out the pictures. Whether I pay for the upgrade. Whether this is the end of the blog altogether. I have to think a little. I’m scared if I stop to start fresh, I’ll never get back into it. And I love blogging.
I don’t know what to do. Maybe it seems small to most, and thats ok, but I’d welcome prayer as I try to figure this out.