I got really fed up with my old web host. It was terribly slow and absolutely impossible to maintain from my end. Trying to backup my database as well as my files was an absolute pain since the FTP kept timing out on me. So in the last quarter of 2007 I decided to look around for a new web host.  I was first toying around using a virtual private server (VPS) and eventually got an account with SliceHost (more on that next time). But eventually I decided to use it for something else.  That's when I came upon NearlyFreeSpeech.Net.  READ MORE ABOUT IT »