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February 4, 2009

How to Move Your WordPress Blog to a New Host, Using Fantastico and phpMyAdmin

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by Tina Gasperson

There are many reasons to switch Web hosting companies: prolonged or repeated outages, poor customer service, or maybe you just found a better deal. However, if you have a well-established WordPress blog you might find as many reasons to procrastinate on moving your site. You don’t want to start over again with the content, comments, and registered users it took so long to amass. Moving WordPress isn’t impossible, though, and as long as you take your time and follow the necessary steps, it isn’t all that difficult.
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January 29, 2009

How to Back up and Restore a WordPress Blog

Filed under: blogging,data storage and recovery,Internet — Tags: , , , — admin @ 2:00 pm

by Tina Gasperson

Whether you have a self-hosted WordPress blog or a free site hosted at WordPress.com, it’s a good idea to back up your blog’s content from time to time, in case an accident happens and your data is damaged or lost. You will also need a site backup if you want to transfer your blog to a new host. There is more than one way to go about the task of backing up and restoring your site, depending on your circumstances and hosting arrangements.

Fortunately, making a copy of your blog content is not difficult to do because WordPress software has automated the process of backing up your data.
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January 16, 2009

How to Set Up a Blog

Filed under: blogging,Internet — Tags: , , , — admin @ 6:00 pm

by Tina Gasperson

Blogs and bloggers are all over the Internet these days. Anyone who wants to can have an online presence in the form of a blog – short for Web log, where daily posts can take the form of news articles, diary entries, or anything in between. “I’m blogging now,” you might have heard one or more of your friends and acquaintances say. If you want to get in on the blogging action, it’s easy and cheap to do once you know where to look.
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January 12, 2009

How and Where to Host Your Web site

Filed under: Internet — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 2:10 pm

by David Strom

If you are looking to start up a new Web site, or if you are unhappy with where your existing Web site is hosted, you have three basic choices for where you actually put your content. You can use a free blogging service, or use GoDaddy or the services of your domain registrar, or you can pay someone to set up a virtual Windows or Linux server and set it up on your own.

The costs vary for each method. Using the Web hosting facility at a registrar such as GoDaddy starts at $5 a month and can be as expensive as several hundreds of dollars a month for the virtual servers. What is the difference? The cheaper plans use pre-set Web sites and aren’t all that flexibly, while the virtual server plans means that you have a complete Windows or Linux OS that is sitting in their data center and yours to set up as you wish.
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