new look, new host

Posted on November 13, 2007

To those who regularly visits my blog, you’d notice that it now has a new look. No more ads up there! I have successfully transferred webhosts. Yey! Surprisingly, my domain’s hosting was transferred relatively easily and painlessly. Unfortunately, this couldn’t be said of Ramil’s domain.

When I purchased the hosting plan and started to move our blogs to another webhost, Ramil suggested that I try transferring his blog first as a guinea pig since my blog has more posts, hence more to lose. So I went about transferring the domain registration, which was where I made a mistake. Thinking that I’ll move the databases after transferring the domain registration, we literally lost Ramil’s whole blog. Since our old blogs were using free ad-supported hosting by the old registrar, the hosting account disappeared after I transferred the registration. My mind went uh-oh and I had to slowly let Ramil in on the boo-boo that I made. I quickly made a quick glance at our excel file of paid posts and computed the lost posts to be around $50. It turned out to be a good thing that he doesn’t do paid posts much. I contacted the old host and they said that they restore files for a fee of $150! No, thank you.

My last backup was March of this year and we just uploaded that instead. Then while checking my Google Reader, I realized that I’m subscribed to Ramil’s blog feed! Unfortunately, his feed is set to show only the first few sentences. I had to settle for that and went about restoring his blog. So now, his old posts consists of only a few sentences. Haha! I told him to rewrite them if he wants but I went about making the $50-worth of paid posts. Good enough for us.

When it was my blog’s turn to move, I made sure to backup the database before anything else. I was able to move my blog without a hitch. Thanks to my guinea pig.

After uploading my database, I went about uploading more themes. It took me a lot of quick changes before I finally settled on this one. Ramil still likes the old one better though, how about you?