I have recently changed my web hosting company and also my email. I have to report that it was a month of hassles, which I expected. I had had the same email since we opened our B&B in Staunton, Virginia since 2000. This has resulted over time in receiving over 350 emails per day of which about 90% or more was spam. This was in spite of the fact that I had many filters on my server and Norton on my home computer.

In order to cancel my old emails I had to find all the B&B sites on which I was listed so that I could ask them to update my email address. This was a good exercise as I discovered that I was listed on 20 B&B directories and I only pay for 7 of them. Some of these produce no business that I can tell of, but a free listing offers an off chance of getting 1 or 2 bookings a year so is still worth it. The reason some are free is that I got onto them when they started out as a B&B directory and so offered to list a B&B for free. Since then, nearly all of them now charge a fee.