I bought CallumW.com back in March 2000 – not realising then quite how integral it would become in my day-to-day and my identity (online).

10 years ago the internet was still relatively unused by the masses, but nowadays business are beginning to push their IT to internet outsourcing specialist companies via cloud computing thanks to internet speeds and cheaper storage.

Slightly unimaginable to the dial-up culture we had even just a few years ago.

The price of WebHosting has always been exponentially higher in the UK than the USA and so CallumW.com moved to live in a Data Center in Florida for 10 years, soaking up the sun, partying, trying to avoid ‘tropical’ computer viruses and hiding under the desks when hurricanes blew through.

But finally, the hosting company I’ve always used (and were always best value for money) have opened up a datacenter in the UK and have closed the gap in hosting fees. It’s still marginally less value than what you get in the USA, but it’s still more than I can use and as it’s so much faster being local in the UK, that’s good enough for me 🙂

So on the 28th of May, CallumW.com packed it’s bags, bought some woolly jumpers and on the 29th (circa 16:00) it came home and is now living in a plush brand new box in a secret location somewhere in London.

You may notice (if you’ve visited before) that the site is much more responsive now that it doesn’t have to travel 6,000 miles before splatting itself all over your screens …… [maybe I should rephrase that?]

Welcome home my wee site … Take your sandals off, I’ll get the kettle on 🙂