Migrated

234 Views Sat, 13 Jan 2007 at 08:31 pm

Hurray… the blog is finally migrated here: www.zalfany.info/blog/ You may need to update your RSS feed as necessary (www.zalfany.info/blog/feed/) * and I promise this should be the permanent address for good — as long as I don’t forget to renew the domain name registration ) *

So what do I get with the new and independent domain? Basically so that I can freely use the latest and full featured version of the blog engine (Wordpress), including the plugins, theme customization, etc. The last time I rant about where to host the blog is due to cost consideration. Well, this consideration still apply now (and will always apply for later cases ) but when you get a web hosting package like this for 8.34 USD for a whole year (that is 90% off, webhostingtalk rulezz!!), who could resist? Except that one year from now, when it comes to the renewal I may have to start scrambling for another super cheap deal * ssshh.. the webhosting administrator shouldn’t ever read this *

The migration proves to be smoother than I expected. I did not expect to be able to migrate my old posts from blogsome, but it turned out to be very easy. Thank’s to Dudi Gurnadi’s guidance here (for the posts) and here (for the comments). The post migrations is even easier than what was written there, because in Wordpress 2.0.6 the facilities to import posts from RSS feeds have been nicely integrated in the Dashboard. For the comment, use the scripts from the second link. It worked flawlessly (except that the comment number on each post seems to be not updated, thus they all show 0 comment, but this is just a minor annoyance). Many thank’s.

Enough ranting. Start writing another purposeful post here (as if there is ever any ).