just minishorts.

I just got back from Johor, where the floods are. Friends have called to tell me my site has been going down for sometime. Scorkes asked if I didn't pay up.

I did, but I think when I purchased this hosting plan, my site didn't have that many readers, nor did it have that many bots attacking the commenting system. Right now, I've been advised to upgrade, and it's going to cost me a great deal. It takes up just about what I put aside each month for my life-savings, and you can imagine just how keen I am on that.

I'm left with few options:

1) Upgrade, lose money
2) Downgrade, move to a free server ala blogspot/wordpress
3) Quit blogging altogether, stop worrying.

Option #3 right now seems the most feasible because it (blogging) will turn into a huge chore to me the moment I start to have to pay up my yearly savings just to keep minishorts.net alive.

If I choose to upgrade, I'm sorry I'll have to do a substantial amount of advertising… but I don't lavish the idea of checking my adsense credits on a regular basis, neither do I fancy the idea of reviewing items/websites I don't ever get to use or see or choose to say whether I like or not. I know it pays well, but I have a full time job to sustain me…. and that's just about enough.

And my lifesavings have other purposes more meaningful than keeping a blog. I want to buy a house one day. Upgrade my wira to something better someday. Renovate my current home, hopefully. Get myself some blingblings eventually. If all of that goes to my blog, I'll curse myself for having terrible financial management.

Don't mind me, I'm just thinking aloud, while the site is down.

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