{"id":24,"date":"2026-02-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kimenders.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:59:03","slug":"new-host-new-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kimenders.com\/blog\/new-host-new-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"New Host, New Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">I was a little bit shocked recently to discover how expensive my domain registrar and web hosting had become respectively. I&#8217;d been neglecting these things for years, not paying attention to any aspect of them at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I&#8217;ve gotten more serious about a game I&#8217;m developing, it became clear to me that I would need to have a web presence for it, and I needed to go take a look at all of my online things and see where they stood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Needless to say, I ditched both the domain registrar and web hosting services as I knew I could find better options that weren&#8217;t so expensive. I chose <a href=\"https:\/\/porkbun.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/porkbun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Porkbun<\/a> for my domains and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nixihost.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nixihost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nixihost<\/a> for my hosting. So far, I&#8217;ve been pretty happy with both. If there is any interest, I would be happy to share why I like each of these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, I have successfully managed to create fledgling web presences for my game and my game developer identity online. While I&#8217;d like to keep my private life completely separate from those things, I do think it would be cool to work on a blog about life in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a little bit shocked recently to discover how expensive my domain registrar and web hosting had become respectively. I&#8217;d been neglecting these things for years, not paying attention to any aspect of them at all. As I&#8217;ve gotten more serious about a game I&#8217;m developing, it became clear to me that I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[26],"wf_post_folders":[32],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-site-news","tag-new-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kimenders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kimenders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kimenders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimenders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimenders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimenders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimenders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kimenders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimenders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimenders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimenders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}