I'm in the process of trying to move off a free Blogspot account over to Wordpress for my personal blog. I have yet to decide whether to use something free like Blogsome or get hosted with a wordpress.org recommended Host like PowWeb or an Irish host like Blacknight. If anyone has opinions on these alternatives, I'd be very interested in hearing them. If the Irish option is reasonable, I'd obviously prefer to go with that.
My concern about Blogsome is the lack of a business model to support their free hosting. PowWeb looks like a no-brainer but if the Blacknight alternative is competitive both technically and price-wise then I'd probably go with that.
But ignoring that for a minute, my biggest concern was that I'd be able to move all my old Blogspot posts and comments over to Wordpress. I have just done a trial run using instructions I found on Andy Skelton's site. It is as awkward as hell but it worked perfectly - I now have posts from 2001-2005 residing on my Fedora box at home after 30 minutes of fiddling.
The only other annoyance is that I have the conoroneill.com domain registered with Yahoo Domains. I then point it at wherever I happen to be doing my posts to. Ideally I'd like to move that over completely to the new host and not need re-directs. This looks messy so any tips there appreciated too.
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Blogsome is an Irish host, believe it or not. Give it a whirl. If you have any probs. I'll send you the MySql dump.
Roger.
I knew Blogsome was Irish. I guess I'm being a bit overly cautious for what is only a personal blog. The only real downside of Blogsome that I can see is that I don't control plug-ins etc so the import from Blogspot might not be too easy (I've seen your pointers on how to do it with other tools).
The main question I have for Roger is at what point you become a victim of your own success and cannot afford all of the bandwidth and storage costs of something which gives you no revenue? But if there is a long-term plan to get bought out like Blogger then that makes total sense.
Unfortunately for me, I do know what a MySQL dump is and what to do with it :-)
I've set up a test Blogsome account and all seems well but I guess the reason I want to move off Blogger is not just the lack of features, it is the lack of complete control.
I'll wait and see if I get any more opinions on this.
I have my company site hosted by Hosting365 and it's fine but not exactly swimming in features and the performance is pretty bad (shared hosting), so I won't use them for the personal one.
Conor
Conor,
I've been using digital-crocus.com for more than a year. They're a small operation but they respond quickly and they're cheap too. It's shared hosting so it may not be what you're looking for.
I'll definitely give them a look. No problem with shared hosting - it's just that the Hosting365 one has an unbelievably slow management interface on it. If I can get Wordpress up and running on an account with them, then that might do the trick. Price is great - any knowledge of their backup strategy or RAID config?
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