For various reasons, I took the big step of moving several of my blogs last week. I’d been meaning to do it for a while, but put it off, as you do with things you suspect will be an unpleasant hassle.
Well – I was wrong. The move went smoothly – so smoothly that I’m still pinching myself and waiting for the other shoe to drop. I heard so many stories before the move that I kept expecting things to go wrong. But everything’s fine.
How to move your blog to a new host – the easy way
I’m not a tech wiz, so I had no intention of moving a clutch of WordPress blogs myself. I got in touch with Host Gator, which hosts many of my sites, and asked them whether they could do the move for me.
(Host Gator has live chat, so you can contact someone at any time, whenever you have concerns. Every time I’ve used live chat, my problem has been smartly solved.)
They could, and they did, within a very short time indeed, less than three days, including the time it takes for the DNS to propagate.
I’ve got one hosting package with Host gator, and it’s getting rather full, so I opted for a new hosting package for the moved blogs. Host Gator will move 20 sites/ blogs for you completely free of charge.
Here’s how the process went:
1. Buy a new hosting package at Host Gator;
2. Set up accounts for the blogs to be moved;
3. Send HG my login information for the old accounts, including the names of the MySQL databases;
4. Once I received notification that everything had been moved, check that everything was working fine on the new host;
5. Transfer the DNS and wait for it to propagate across the Web;
6. All done!
I can’t commend Host Gator enough. They did everything for me, all I had to do was ask.
The only regret I have now is that I didn’t move the blogs sooner.
So if you want to move a blog, and the idea makes you queasy, take your courage in both hands. Once you’ve moved, you’ll wonder what took you so long.
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