People ask me about my blog host all the time.  The two most popular queries are:


1)  What platform are you using, and who hosts it?


2)  Why does your blog host keep disabling your blog?


They ask the first question because they like the way my blog looks.  As I've previously explained, my blog host is Netidentity, which is a reseller of the Blogware platform. 

I'm still struggling to understand the answer to the second question.  Apparently, my blog is a bandwidth sinkhole, using up its monthly allotment in two or three days.  My contact at Netidentity, the sainted Tony Nicosia, has labored in vain to help me understand why this is so, and has come up with various interim solutions to keep my blog online.  Like I say, this guy is a saint.

All this is complicated by the fact that Netidentity not only is my blog host but also the owner of the domain name finn.com.  (That is, I rent deborah.elizabeth.finn.com from them.)  Even if I wanted to find another Blogware reseller, I'm not eager to port my entire identity to some other provider. 

But now the Tucows - the company that created Blogware - has acquired Netidentity!  This seems like good news to me, because the folks at Tucows have always been very responsive to my requests and queries about Blogware.  Maybe that's because Joey deVilla, the prominent Tucows/Blogware maven, is married to a buddy of mine from the Berkman blogging group, the brilliant Wendy Koslow.  I won't go so far as to say that Joey owes reparation to Wendy's fans in Massachusetts, now that he's spirited her away to Toronto, but I've appealed to him for Blogware help once or twice, and he's been very kind.

I'm hoping that trouble-shooting will get a lot easier once my domain name, my blog host, and my blog platform are all under one corporate umbrella.  If not, I wonder if I can send out a distress call to Wendy.  She's right there in Toronto, convenient to Tucows headquarters, and she's one tough babe.  Watch out, Netidentity!





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