Monday, January 29, 2024

Bluehost

 My credit card has been charged $971.64 by Bluehost.com (a website hosting service).  It's too late to phone them now so I'll phone them after doing my Tuesday morning shopping at Walmart.

Years ago, I had a website named Crowdedonavelvetcushion.com 

I had fun with that website.  It cost me nothing, and I could reflect on the world news, write a poem, or do whatever I pleased.  Every year I gave a $100 prize for "Book of the Year" to whatever author had most impressed me in the preceding year.  I had hoped to eventually displace the Pulitzer Prize etc.

Eventually, however, someone with a cushion business stole my website's name.  I learned that I had to get my website "hosted" by a "hosting service."  I contacted Bluehost.  The Cushion business guy who had stolen my website name was out of the picture, and I thought I got my website name back, but it never materialized.

If you search "crowdedonavelvetcushion.com" you will come up empty.

That was 2021.  Bluehost has now charged my credit card for $971.64.  That's a lot of money...but hey...it's for 3 years!

Bluehost and I need to chat.