In the spirit of Black Friday, I went searching for some great deals.
I came across a few at Namecheap – namely, $0.98 each for the first year of shared web hosting and domain registration.
If you’ve been keeping up with me for a while, you know that I occasionally do website redesigns every few years. I’m long overdue for my next redesign, and there’s actually a valid reason for that.
The thing that’s holding me back is the fact that my current web host appears to be keeping cached copies of my .CSS files such that changes don’t go into effect until about 10-20 minutes after the edits are published. As you can imagine, making and testing changes to stylesheets is essentially impossible when your .CSS edits only refresh four times an hour.
For this reason, I was especially compelled to take advantage of the $0.98-for-one-year web hosting bargain from Namecheap.
I acted on my compulsion at 11 AM EST this morning when the coupon code was released on Namecheap’s special Black Friday timed deals page. The several hundred coupon codes sold out within a handful of minutes, and I was fortunate enough to be one of the people to get one.
About an hour and a half after my purchase, I started moving files over to my new server, and by 1 PM EST, I was pretty much done. All I had to do was wait for the DNS to propagate, and my new old website would be live.
Or so I thought.