{"id":789,"date":"2008-02-17T21:40:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T21:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/total_choice_ho_1.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:31","slug":"total_choice_ho_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/total_choice_ho_1.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Total Choice Hosting = Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a year and a half ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salguod.net\/weblog\/archive\/000459.shtml\">choose a new host<\/a> for my blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.totalchoicehosting.com\/\">Total Choice Hosting<\/a>.  At the time I signed up, I was going to get 850 MB of disk space and 20 GB of traffic per month.   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