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The biggest mistake of host transfer that dummy must know.

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If you had follow my blog for the past few days. You will know that my site was down for 3 full days.
I wasn’t aware that transfer hosting is so much troublesome. I didn’t do enough research before buying and ending hosting. As the matter of fact. I did it last minute.

DON’T EVER DO LAST MINUTE TRANSFER!!

Anyway, guess what, I am back to my old hosting. Luckly, my old faithful host is good enough to spare me extra days before cutting off hosting service after my time ended. The new host that I had subscribed is too unlucky not to have me. :). Anyway, they stated there 15 days money back guarantee. I am sure I’ll be able to get back my money.

Why do i ditch my new host?

1) They do not have 24hr Customer service as stated. And they only do 5 days work. Damn right! 5 days only.
2) They couldn’t solve my problem, which the nice CS guy really did his 120% effort to help.
Too bad he is lack of WP knowledge to do anything. I don’t blame him.
3) This website down thingy is freaking me off. What if my site has business? They can’t compensate me money.

Well, that’s all for today. I’ll tried to post all my experience on transfer hosting failure to everyone. Especially for those, who is as dummy as i do in web hosting.

These will be the steps for us to watch out if we ever want a transfer.

06-05-08

Tried to create a tutorial. But it seems that i can’t. Too new to tell anything.
Anyway, here is the place to lookout when you are changing the site URL. [moving from domain to subdomain]

http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

Next, if you want or i actually needed this for layout redefine.

http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Layout_and_Design

Here is a tutorial for favicon [the little icon next to your web address at the web bar]

http://codex.wordpress.org/favicon.ico

If you want to migrate your plugin and themes.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Migrating_Plugins_and_Themes 

3 Comments »

  josephgelb wrote @ April 3rd, 2008 at 7:32 am

what host did you transfer from and too and what hosts do you recommend?

  Jayce wrote @ April 10th, 2008 at 10:05 pm

I faced some problem during my hosting transfer. But finally done. Happy with my new hosting now.
It is a lot better than the previous one. :D

  kiro wrote @ April 13th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

Hi all,
If anyone of you wanted to know what hosting i had use and give up. You could just drop by and ask. I will email to you my experience and send you by email.
I wouldn’t want to create a miss understanding to the host that i ditch. Cos i had not had the chance to really understand what is the main problem.

Anyway, the current hosting i am using is from sempoihosting. A local Malaysian host that i love.

So check you email ya, Josephgelb.

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