How To Move A Blog
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My original hosting is with DreamHost. But when I started creating multiple sites I got a resellers account with hostgator. The great thing about the reseller account with hostgator is you can have a separate account for each site, and they use cPanel. But it’s 24 dollars a month.
The best thing about DreamHost is they have great hosting, and one click installs and upgrades. They even give you one free domain a year and you can get great deals on your first year of hosting. For instance using a promo code like Emma90 can save you 90 dollars, so that’s an entire year of hosting for 29.40$.
Occasionally I consider consolidating and moving my DreamHost sites to my HostGator account. But it’s easier to pay for double hosting then going through the hassle of moving. But if I ever change my mind. Pat Doyle just moved her account from DreamHost to HostGator and changed her domain name.
I wanted to make a post about her post so I would have the directions handy, just in case. So here they are; How To Move a WordPress Blog.
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Jagad Guru | Oct 27, 2008 | Reply
Wow , It is such a enlightening piece of information that I am really rejoiced over the fact that I now know something as cool as that. Thanks bro , you made everything quite clear , discussed every minor details. Nice sharing
Emma | Oct 27, 2008 | Reply
I’m not your Bro.
PS this is why I went back to no follow
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Kelvin Kao | Oct 27, 2008 | Reply
Dreamhost allows seperate accounts too. Well, yes and no. It allows seperate FTP accounts for different size, but probably only one admin account. You can’t resell though.
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Emma | Oct 27, 2008 | Reply
I still think DreamHost is good. But there are a lot of advantages to having a reseller account. Also tools like Domain Dashboard only work with cPanel. But one click WordPress upgrades from DreamHost, are a lot easier then doing it manually or waiting for fantastico to update. DreamHost also has a one click OpenX install which is great if you are planning on running AdSense. Thanks, for visiting kelvin.
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Roger Hamilton | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
Any other recommendations for webhosts?
Emma | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
These are the only two I’m familiar with. But everybody and their brother is out their recommending hosting companies.
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Roger Hamilton | Nov 1, 2008 | Reply
Alright thanks. I’ll do some searching and see which fits me best.
Skip Hire | Nov 5, 2008 | Reply
Wow , It is such a enlightening piece of information that I am really rejoiced over the fact that I now know something as cool as that.
Mouseclone | Nov 6, 2008 | Reply
Emma: I have moved mouseclone.com several times. It is really easy. Dump database import data base. Change config file with new user/pass and change DNS settings. All done. Let me know if you need help, if you ever really want to do it, and keep your domain.
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Emma | Nov 6, 2008 | Reply
Thanks Mark, I know I can count on you if I have any questions.
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Maxus | Nov 19, 2008 | Reply
Dreamhost allows seperate accounts too. Well, yes and no.
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Chris Brown | Dec 1, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the post about moving your blog. I moved mine about 11 months ago from blogspot to a hosted wordpress blog and decided to just use GoDaddy. I bought the domain through them and it was easy to install the wordpress software.
One thing I found out much later after I did all the work… they don’t keep up with the most current version. That’s a pain… so I’m always behind installing the recent wordpress updates. I called about it and they said that they had to test it first.
While pricing is certainly a considerations, the hassle of moving & all the time involved “fixing” and “learning” is much more significant to me.
Chris Brown
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Emma | Dec 3, 2008 | Reply
Hey Chris there is an Automatic Update WordPress plugin that can make updates easier. I use it on a couple of my blogs.
ebeneara1 | Dec 7, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the nice post.It had a lot of useful information that i haven’t come across…
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