My BlueHost site services for the China region are set to shutdown in a month, so I had to find a new home for this WordPress blog. DeepSeek had previously recommended A2 Hosting to me, so I registered an account on Sunday and paid a $1 trial fee for the first month. However, the service wasn’t activated until Tuesday. The product I chose was WordPress Hosting.

There were several drawbacks: I set up an FTP account but couldn’t connect, and the web-based file manager wasn’t practical for uploading. So, I tried a WordPress migration plugin, hoping to upload everything purely through the web interface. The file was too large, and I had to modify PHP upload limits. After finally getting the upload completed, I moved on to domain pointing—only to find that the interface offered little support aside from transferring the domain. And there is no entry for SSL cert setting. The process was too cumbersome.

Frustrated, I switched to Hostinger. I paid for a yearly plan, and the account was activated immediately. I uploaded the code and SQL backups step by step, reset the SSL certificate, and pointed the domain. The entire process took less than 30 minutes. It seems that those $1 trial services really aren’t worth it.

Although I feel this might compromise the original intent of this post, I’ll still include a referral link—after all, I’ve been extremely impressed with Hostinger. https://hostinger.com?REFERRALCODE=9CPZHENGRSRH

I also promptly cancelled the A2 hosting service subscription to avoid any unnecessary charges next month.