Comments on: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Moving http://elekhni.com/2008/05/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-moving/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:44:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Shefaly http://elekhni.com/2008/05/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-moving/#comment-1078 Shefaly Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:34:29 +0000 http://elekhni.com/?p=111#comment-1078 Lekhni: Following my question the other day, it is fortuitous to find this post through your response to Poonam. I will read this first before bugging you. I am thinking of hosting my own professional website and my 2 professional blogs (1 yet in planning stages) so a lot of stuff has to be taken into account. A friend, who hates providing telesupport, is taking pity on me now and may help me but I am yet to find a designer who is affordable enough. Oh decisions! Lekhni: Following my question the other day, it is fortuitous to find this post through your response to Poonam. I will read this first before bugging you.

I am thinking of hosting my own professional website and my 2 professional blogs (1 yet in planning stages) so a lot of stuff has to be taken into account. A friend, who hates providing telesupport, is taking pity on me now and may help me but I am yet to find a designer who is affordable enough. Oh decisions!

]]> By: lekhni http://elekhni.com/2008/05/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-moving/#comment-1077 lekhni Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:24:51 +0000 http://elekhni.com/?p=111#comment-1077 <strong>Poonam:</strong> There is certainly a word called fearsome, though I hope your moving experience doesn't have to be like that. If it helps, I don't spend any time on website maintenance these days. It's only the first few days that you spend downloading plugins and so on. Once I decided I was happy with my theme, I quit tweaking. If you want to, you can run both blogs in parallel for a few days before announcing to the world. Poonam: There is certainly a word called fearsome, though I hope your moving experience doesn’t have to be like that. If it helps, I don’t spend any time on website maintenance these days. It’s only the first few days that you spend downloading plugins and so on. Once I decided I was happy with my theme, I quit tweaking.
If you want to, you can run both blogs in parallel for a few days before announcing to the world.

]]> By: Poonam http://elekhni.com/2008/05/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-moving/#comment-1074 Poonam Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:40:18 +0000 http://elekhni.com/?p=111#comment-1074 I like the way you have written your experience, tinged with humor. But yet it scares me to have my own-hosted blog. I find little time to write, to think of having web site nightmares is fearsome (is there a word like that? ) :) I like the way you have written your experience, tinged with humor. But yet it scares me to have my own-hosted blog. I find little time to write, to think of having web site nightmares is fearsome (is there a word like that? ) :)

]]> By: move from wordpress.com | amreekandesi.com http://elekhni.com/2008/05/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-moving/#comment-1043 move from wordpress.com | amreekandesi.com Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:19:14 +0000 http://elekhni.com/?p=111#comment-1043 [...] lekhni for your helpful post. I used fantastico to install the wordpress software which i now use to manage the blog. Currently [...] [...] lekhni for your helpful post. I used fantastico to install the wordpress software which i now use to manage the blog. Currently [...]

]]> By: Rajesh Kumar http://elekhni.com/2008/05/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-moving/#comment-728 Rajesh Kumar Fri, 23 May 2008 01:54:43 +0000 http://elekhni.com/?p=111#comment-728 All said, the move looks quite successful- congratulations Lekhni. All said, the move looks quite successful- congratulations Lekhni.

]]> By: lekhni http://elekhni.com/2008/05/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-moving/#comment-721 lekhni Thu, 22 May 2008 12:11:09 +0000 http://elekhni.com/?p=111#comment-721 <strong>nandita:</strong> I know, surely there must be a more painless way to do it? I wish the hosting providers would also take care of installing themes and plugins that you specify :) <strong>Arvind Iyer</strong> Actually, it's easier for you if you are on blogger - since <a href="http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/07/great-day-for-blogger-users-or-those.html" rel="nofollow">blogger lets you redirect your Blogspot feeds</a> to your new account with one click - so subscribers to the old feed will automatically get the new feed. <strong>Gautam:</strong> Yeah, I briefly considered that option..maybe I should have tried that..though in the end the shifting to wordpress.org itself wasn't so painful, it's the tweaking that is..:( nandita: I know, surely there must be a more painless way to do it? I wish the hosting providers would also take care of installing themes and plugins that you specify :)

Arvind Iyer Actually, it’s easier for you if you are on blogger - since blogger lets you redirect your Blogspot feeds to your new account with one click - so subscribers to the old feed will automatically get the new feed.

Gautam: Yeah, I briefly considered that option..maybe I should have tried that..though in the end the shifting to wordpress.org itself wasn’t so painful, it’s the tweaking that is..:(

]]> By: Gautam http://elekhni.com/2008/05/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-moving/#comment-720 Gautam Thu, 22 May 2008 07:25:03 +0000 http://elekhni.com/?p=111#comment-720 For non-geeks with a wordpress.com I urge to use Custum Domain solutions from Wordpress (from your wp-admin page click on upgrades and domains)... of course custom widgets and stuff gets difficult then, but wordpress changes urls and stuff much more painlessly :) And no moving back to default kubrick theme For non-geeks with a wordpress.com I urge to use Custum Domain solutions from Wordpress (from your wp-admin page click on upgrades and domains)… of course custom widgets and stuff gets difficult then, but wordpress changes urls and stuff much more painlessly :) And no moving back to default kubrick theme

]]> By: Arvind Iyer http://elekhni.com/2008/05/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-moving/#comment-719 Arvind Iyer Thu, 22 May 2008 05:27:27 +0000 http://elekhni.com/?p=111#comment-719 Quick Question: How did you manage to retain the subscribers to your previous blog ? (I haven't followed your blog before this) Suppose it was on blogspot - the feed link would have been different. How do you handle that transition ? Quick Question:
How did you manage to retain the subscribers to your previous blog ?
(I haven’t followed your blog before this) Suppose it was on blogspot - the feed link would have been different.
How do you handle that transition ?

]]> By: nandita http://elekhni.com/2008/05/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-moving/#comment-718 nandita Wed, 21 May 2008 22:29:58 +0000 http://elekhni.com/?p=111#comment-718 Completely empathise with you. Have just shifted all my posts related to law to a <a href="http://lawmatters.in" rel="nofollow">new place</a> and even though <a href="http://fatalerror.in" rel="nofollow">a friend</a> I'm setting the site up with is taking care of all the techie stuff, there are times when I've wanted to <b>scream</b>. Completely empathise with you. Have just shifted all my posts related to law to a new place and even though a friend I’m setting the site up with is taking care of all the techie stuff, there are times when I’ve wanted to scream.

]]> By: lekhni http://elekhni.com/2008/05/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-moving/#comment-714 lekhni Wed, 21 May 2008 15:17:18 +0000 http://elekhni.com/?p=111#comment-714 <strong>Patrix:</strong> Oh yes, now that you mention it, I remember reading that particular horror story somewhere too - was it Manish Vij? Put that way, I have no choice but to do weekly backups now :) The eyes-closing is the difficult part - I am too scared to press any key without reading what I am agreeing to, but reading the stuff sometimes makes me even more scared ;) Do they hire lapsed horror story writers to design these software, I wonder ? Patrix: Oh yes, now that you mention it, I remember reading that particular horror story somewhere too - was it Manish Vij? Put that way, I have no choice but to do weekly backups now :)
The eyes-closing is the difficult part - I am too scared to press any key without reading what I am agreeing to, but reading the stuff sometimes makes me even more scared ;) Do they hire lapsed horror story writers to design these software, I wonder ?

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