Monday, 14 June 2010

My blog has moved to a new pad.......

Guess what? I've got me a new domain name! Yep, I did an internet search and I managed not only to find, but to register this:

https://thedayafteryesterday.co.uk. How cool? Uber cool, that's what. I've gotten myself my own pad.

But then it hit me. I had no idea whatsoever about how to put my blog into that domain. I mean, it's not like moving house - you can't just pick up a blog and shove it into it's new location. Darn, I appeared to have fallen at the second hurdle.

'No worries,' I thought to myself, 'I'll Google it.'

I typed 'how do I move my blog somewhere else?' into the search engine. The top ranking result was this article:

I Should Really Move Somewhere Else

This is what happens when you let your 14 year-old son name the new neighborhood you designed. Now all the other neighborhoods laugh at your awkward mornings. Why Do I Live Here?

It wasn't going well. In terms of relevancy, the article above was not helping me solve my problem of how to get my blog into my brand spanking new, sparkly domain.

I decided to search 'Blogger help' for a solution to my problem, and voila! it did indeed have a section on 'posting your blog to your own domain'.

'That'll be the puppy', I thought to myself, and clicked on the link.

After my initial high hopes, things deteriorated quickly..... the posting was entirely constructed of 'IT speak', i.e. baffling acronyms telling me to reconfigure my DNS, modify my CNAMES and update my IP. WTF? (look at me getting into the spirit of things).

The situation was looking dire, but just before I concluded that it was 'game over', I had a brainwave......... my friend Dave owns a successful 'Hosting and Domain Name' company, and he has looked after every website I have ever set-up. I decided to give him a call, and less than 20 minutes later, he had moved my blog over to the new domain, with no downtime at all. What a star! Dave, I love you more than Pizza Express!

In fact (even though I don't normally like doing plugs on my blog), I am going to make an exception today, and highly recommend Dave's company, Apex Hosting....... because yet again they have bailed me out of the brown stuff with excellent customer support. So if you fancy getting your own domain like me, you know where to go....... actually, I might try and negotiate commission!

Not everything was plain sailing though, a problem with Blogger.com meant that I lost my 'Blogroll' in the process...... that is, the list of blogs that I read on a regular basis. I have tried to resinstate them from memory, but still have a nagging doubt that I have forgotten some.

So I would like to leave you with two things:

1. If I have missed your blog off my blogroll, please contact me and let me know because you will be missed

2. Welcome to my blog's new home!

14 comments:

  1. A new home for the blog!!!!

    When I started the Arkwright site and later blog, I decided on a dedicated domain for it as in the long run it gives you more control to do other things such as albums etc.

    Nice to have a host your happy with and trust, I always try and do the best for my customers it pays in the long run, but a few I have come across over the years seem to go out of their way to be difficult and unhelpful for some strange reason.

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  2. thanks for stopping by my blog. love reading ur blog . keep up the good work and congrats on ur very own domain (does that sound right? :P)

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  3. ooohhh loads better than the old one ;-)

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  4. You daft norbert, I would have hosted your new blog in its domain free of charge, with no restrictions and with some nice little value-added touches.

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  5. Hello Robert, yep you are so right - with my own domain I have much more flexibility - like hosting my own pics without having to pay Picasa! Hurray!

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  6. Hi Victoria.... thanks for stopping by, it's nice to see you. Glad you like the blog.... and I am definitely going to be trying some of the recipes that you have posted!

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  7. Thank you Clare me dear! A new URL gives me a nice new break.... which you already know about.

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  8. Eh up Bren.... now you tell me. Mind you, my friend who hosts my sites has always been pretty shit hot.... there would have to be quite a lot of value added touches to make it comparable... !!

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  9. Congrats on the new domain! It seems to be working really well. :) My domain changed too, recently. It's now www.didyourememberyourpilltoday.com. I didn't see it on your blogroll, but I might have just missed it. I've got kids screaming in the background. Congratulations again.

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  10. Thanks for that Heather - I have added you blog back onto the list!

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