Two Websites, Two Hosting Services

In early November of 2023, The Renaissance Garden Guy moved from Bluehost to a new hosting service.  The RGG’s migration to A2 Hosting was completed on November 7th, and it became a permanent resident on its own massive, missile-fast Warp 2 Turbo AMD bare metal dedicated A2 server.  The reason for this move was The RGG’s growing size and complexity.  A2 hosting provided the storage space (up to 5 TB) and insane server speed and performance (augmented by suites of integrated proprietary and/or complementary WordPress optimization features and plugins) to accommodate the growing load of written/photographic/video/audiovisual content added to the site on a regular and continual basis.  The Renaissance Garden Guy had simply grown too big and cumbersome for even Bluehost’s biggest dedicated server.

I feel now that it’s extremely important to explain to RGG readers and subscribers the practical and logistic motivation behind the site’s move to A2 Hosting.  The benefits to The Renaissance Garden Guy – and its readers and subscribers – of greater content storage, greater speed, and greater performance are obvious, and jointly represent the primary catalyst behind the move.  But within the context of explaining those all-encompassing benefits of The RGG’s A2 migration, I’d also like to address another associated benefit: the benefit of creating and fielding a second website.

The benefit of having a second website accrues in a couple of different ways.  The first and most obvious is the fact that a second website (in this case, the nascent and as yet unveiled A Man for Some Seasons) provides a guy like me, whose slow-moving and tiny brain is crammed with a shitload of ideas, and overwhelmed with the blinking-directional snarl of an overabundance of potential creative pathways, a second repository for content.  I like to think of A Man for Some Seasons as a flower pot drainage pan.  All the extra water that can’t fit in the pot, and that doesn’t get used by the plant growing there, ends up in the pan.  So lots of great, useful potential content that doesn’t fit on The Renaissance Garden Guy will find a home on A Man for Some Seasons.  (All good so far, yes?)  But further benefit accrues – to me AND to readers and potential bloggers/website creators – when that second website is hosted by a second, separate hosting service.

How do the benefits of having two websites and two hosting services accrue to not only yours truly, but to RGG and AMFSS readers/potential bloggers and websiter creators, too?  The answer lies in advertising.  The Renaissance Garden Guy, along with its de facto identity (me), maintains affiliate partnerships with both A2 Hosting, which hosts The RGG itself, and Bluehost, which hosts A Man for Some Seasons (and which, until November 7, 2023, hosted The RGG, as well).  As an affiliate partner of each of these excellent companies, I can advertise their respective goods and services – namely their hosting capabilities – and get paid for doing it whenever an RGG reader and future blogger or website creator clicks on an A2 or Bluehost ad or link anywhere on The RGG – including this article – and tries one or both of them out.  Simple.  I get paid, and the future blogger/website creator gets an awesome hosting package.

But there’s an additional, somewhat intangible benefit that accrues by hosting two separate websites at two separate hosting services.  It’s a benefit that accrues solely to me, and is emphatically limned by a notion – a principle, really – that functions as a personal, primary mover that, in this case, is all my own.  That notion, that principle, is integrity.  Regular RGG readers and subscribers know that I always put my money where my mouth is.  I never, ever, advertise or promote anything that I do not use and love.  Simple.  In fact, in the case of advertising and recommending both A2 Hosting and Bluehost, it wasn’t enough for me to merely say that I used to host The RGG at Bluehost and that I was happy.  It was imperative that I’d be able to tell RGG readers and subscribers that I do use Bluehost and that I am happy.  It’s all good.  My new and developing website, A Man for Some Seasons, has got an excellent home, and I sleep even better at night this way.

And while we’re on the topic of advertising, please feel free to click on any A2 Hosting or Bluehost banner or link in this article, or on any RGG page, to learn more about each respective company.  You can also visit The RGG page, Host Your Own Site for additional information and for more of my experiences and observations regarding A2 Hosting and Bluehost.  And for more info regarding The Renaissance Garden Guy and its advertising methodology, please visit The RGG Disclosure page.