Things I Learnt From Moving Hosts

These are a few of the things I learnt from moving hosts.

1. It is important to Get a Host with Unlimited bandwidth

If you know your bandwidth is limited, then there is always a worry in the back of your mind, that you don’t want to get a flood of traffic. This is the wrong mindset to run a successful blog.

2. Good Theme is Essential

It is vital to be happy with your theme. (This is not the final theme for Net Writing) but, it is fine as a stop gap. Mani Karthik gives some interesting statistics from his redesign. – Desgin Matters – pay someone to do a good job. It is a necessary investment. (I know content is king) But, when buying books, people give more attention to the outer cover than we would like to admit. When your theme is not so good, it acts as a psychological barrier to posting and developing your blog.

3. Back up Wordpress Databases

A good tip is to back up and store it in a Gmail account. You can save 100s of files before you need worry about file limits.

4. Test on All Browsers

I always use Mozilla Firefox, the site looked fine on my browser. But, this morning I checked on Internet Explorer 6.0 to see the usual bugs. I should have checked straight away. – Also since I have a Mac I test on Safari as well. (BTW interesting fact on Net Writing 40% of users have Firefox) For most other sites I have, the statistic is closer to 15%.

5. It’s Not That Difficult

I was tempted to pay someone to do the moving for me. But, I was glad I did it myself. You learn a few things and it’s not that difficult

If you want any help / suggestions with moving hosts / blogs you can let me know.