As you may or may not know, The Milk Crate has undergone some drastic changes recently. I wanted to get away from the free hosting provided by Blogger and have more flexibility and a better ability to customize as I wanted. So I decided to sign up for my own hosting plan, and I went with Bluehost.com. I have never had my own hosting before, and was a little nervous about it because I thought it might be over my head. Fortunately, I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to get everything up and running, and I was pretty impressed with the customer service support (especially for a novice).

The service only costs $6.95 per month if you sign up for 24 months, and it costs $7.95 per month if you only want to sign up for one year at a time. It’s pretty reasonable for all of the server space and bandwidth that your allowed. You are also able to register one domain name for free if you don’t already have one or would like to get another one.

I was also really impressed with how easy it was to install the Wordpress blogging platform. Bluehost already has Wordpress right there for you to install onto whatever domain you choose. It really couldn’t have been much simpler. And importing everything over from Blogger was really easy as well. I’m really happy with the new look here at The Milk Crate, and hope you enjoy it as well. Feel free to make any comments about the design or leave suggestions for improvements.