I’ve just changed my webhosting, so there will be some disruption to my site. The domain will be the same, but my blog will be moving again, I’m afraid. The change is partly WordPress’s fault, as I want my blog to be part of my site, rather than be hosted by them, and my previous host did not support PHP, which is somewhat required. I also found their website to be somewhat confusing and it always seemed to take a tremendous effort to find anything on their site. I was therefore really quite pleased to hear that it was about to expire, unless I did something about it. I asked Derek who he uses, as he’s geeky like that (sorry), and he recommended this one to me, so I’ll see how they go (not that I used his referral link ). Seems ok so far, anyway. Which isn’t to say I don’t really know what most of it is talking about!

So far:

• I’ve saved my previous site to my pooter, as it suddenly dawned on me that I’d lose it all once the transfer went through.
• I’ve shifted the old blogger blogs to new directories within that site; I’ll have to put at least two back up at some point so I can import them into WordPress. This is something I’ve been putting off until I had changed my host, so now I have no excuse.
• I’ve installed WordPress onto the server. They do it by magic, which is very good, because I really wouldn’t have a clue how to do it.

I need to:

• Shift my current WordPress blog to this site.
• Do something constructive with my other blogs, such as they are. I may even update them now and again!
• Put some content up on the site!

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categories: Nature and Science and Tech
tags: blogging, computing, family
series: Changing hosts
last modified: 15th May 2011