I’m moving my personal website from being hosted by Dreamhost to Hostgator. This move is for saving money alone, Dreamhost have been satisfactory otherwise. The only real issue I’ve had is with mailboxes filling up and having to be destroyed and recreated.

A little fun moving to Hostgator. At first hiccups using ssh - I didn’t understand til now that existing public keys in .ssh (I’m on a Mac) can complicate things. Also Hostgator don’t seem to have a facility for bulk editing email forwarders like Dreamhost do.

Switching the nameservers over was stressful. My personal website started giving certificate errors and 404 errors (page not found). I think I hope it’s stable now. And that I recreated all the email forwarders correctly.

Apple Mail also behaved badly - so as not to lose emails they all had to be saved in folders on the local machine. It is also prone to crashing out afterwards. Perhaps I need to destroy and recreate the accounts.