I know that’s hardly what I can call “news”, but I just wanted to have a way to explain the sudden weirdness my blog caused yesterday (say, the 10 posts that suddenly appeared in your feed readers?). I just moved my blog to Dreamhost from its home for more than a year with HostingPH. It’s sad to have to say goodbye to my old web hosting where my so-called netrepreneurship efforts began (lol!), but I can no longer afford to keep two hosting plans. Besides, it would be unwise not to make use of the vast bandwidth and disk space Dreamhost provides, so I might as well put them to good use. If you need someone to host your domain, you can contact me.

HostingPH (aka Pinoyhosting), my former web host, was just okay. I didn’t have problems with them in general and they did respond immediately to my inquiries but what I don’t like about them is their not-so-friendly staff. I hated those times when I was in a panic mode needed them to help me with something and they would just reply with a one-liner e-mail. Mostly with just a “phrase” too. I mean, it wouldn’t hurt them to show a little – but genuine – concern, would it?

Anywho, that’s all in the past! It’s time to move on. There were plenty of errors around here yesterday (e.g. images embedded in entries were nowhere to be found, and some of the plugins weren’t working), but I got them all fixed today. I think.

If you’re planning to move your WordPress blog from one web host to another, there’s a lot of tips out there that you might want to read first. To put it simply though, you must make sure you backup your files, transfer them to your new host, and modify the nameservers of your domain first before you cancel your account with your current host. Do it the other way around and you just might be forced to say goodbye to all the blog posts, comments, images, and other data you’ve collected over the past years! Or less. Whatever. :D

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To those who enjoyed the funny photos I embedded in my previous post, I forgot to include one more photo that you might want to see! How could I have neglected this guy? I mean, he clearly has the hardest job among the group, not to mention, the greasiest. I’m sure the fumes aren’t doing him any good in there too. Poor guy. I wouldn’t smoke in there if I were him though!

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