Moving ISPs and winding down the business.

Following on from closing down my Facebook accounts, I decided to retire completely, and wind down SOS Computer Rescue. It was all starting to get a bit irritating, Facebook being dicks, Crazy Domains taking over Openhost (and being dicks), which hosted my business site and my personal site, crazy customers who called every time they hit F11 and lost their menus, and a bunch of other stuff.

So since January when I made the decision, I have been taking various actions. I attempted to transfer my personal websites and blogs to my original Web Hosting provider, Freeparking, who still managed my domain name glover.gen.nz and the email addresses that my family use to a greater or lesser extent. But Freeparking is now owned by the Crazy Domains people, and service there had become just as bad as the OpenHost service.

This increased the complexity of moving my moving my Web Sites over, and as they were making it hard, I gave them the  sack, and bought new Web Hosting at WebHostingNZ.com, who provided everything the other two organisations provided at about 1/3 of the price! This meant I had to transfer my Domain Name over to WHNZ, and 5 email addresses, my personal website and my WordPress Blog from SOS Computers that was mostly personal stuff anyway.

All this took a couple of weeks to complete, and is mostly complete. I still have a few email addresses at Signsofsuccess.co.nz hosted at Crazy domains, but seeing as the account was paid up for another 12 months, they can sit there until I finalise winding everything up. I am busy changing contact details for anyone who had the sos emails as signons etc, and less and less mail comes through each day. One particular email account which was on the website was being spammed dozens of times a day, and shutting down that one has cleaned up the inboxes no end.

I also got rid of the landline number I had as an alias to my business cell phone number, and the business bank accounts are closed.

I have voice mail messages on my cellphone which I can use when customers ring explaining that I am no longer in business.

Final accounts are in the process of being drawn up, and will be at the accountant next week.

I did think I might miss the customer contact, but stress levels are going down as fast as the inboxes!