(Note: I plan on this being my last post for a while on the act of blogging and hosting engines; I’ll be back to posting about my life starting next.)
In moving over to the new blog, I had a choice to make: move everything over, move nothing, or figure out what’s easy to do.
WordPress has some options for transferring between hosting engines built-in, but unfortunately, Spaces is not one of them.
So, easy it was, but not everything - I used www.blogbackuponline.com, which has a really nice backup and restore service that happens to cover Spaces, but as I found out, only the 20 or so most recent articles.
Since I already started, I figured it’s good enough - so only the 20 most recent articles have been moved to the new site; visit the old one for any previous postings. Hope it’s not too much of a hassle!
<This post is cross-posted between my old blog at Windows Live Spaces, and my new one, at Averbuch.net>
I’ve been thinking about moving off of Spaces for a while, for a couple of reasons:
During the President’s Day holiday yesterday, I spent time exploring various hosting options, and ended up setting up a plan at http://hostingrails.com, which had the price I was looking for (including coupons), along with providing Ruby access, WordPress, ssh/shell access, and a bunch of other exploratory needs.
I’ve got the new site up, so I am going to switch everything over there; you’ll just need to switch over once, but don’t be surprised if I change the look and feel a bit over time as I explore various options and plugins.
My next post will describe how to get setup on the new server.