Years of Poems and Spirits

Having trouble with my two web hosts recently.

ePowHost.com: they lost my files. I don’t know whether it was a mistake, or someone hacked it or what. Searched Web and saw others had similar problem with other hosts. I wonder whether they are all resalers of the same vendor?

Anyway, ePowHost is now just playing dead: they never replied to any of my inquiries, including how to get a refund.

dot5hosting.com: the site that I host terra-bonita.com. Terribly slow and downs all the time during the summer. It is clear that they are not capable of running this business: everything was behind.

Finding a new host is not fun: I need at least 200G space, MySQL 5, DB remote access and 10 or more addon domains. It is just incredible how hard it is to find a site with all those features. A couple of candidates (awardspace.com, bluehost.com, fastdomain.com) were so close, but in the end I gave up because of others reviews, some of which painfully reminded me of what I have now.

This is my first post after upgrading to WP 2.5.1

Liked the WYSIWYG editor feature. The tags may help too.

Still have one problem: search result from Google still points to my home page but not individual blog entry. Not sure how to fix that yet.

I am caught between Search-friendly and useability.

Calendar:
1. First choice: cheap, has everything I need, looks simple too.
http://www.easyphpcalendar.com/demoTOC.php ($20)
2. 2nd choice: a little pricy, looks pretty complicated, too much a tool by itself.
http://www.extrosoft.com/ ($50)

Community:
1. http://www.xoops.org/
XooPS: pretty complicated. Seems to have most of things. Widely supported/community. Many component for download.