Hello again! Welcome back! If you didn’t notice I was gone, then you need to stop by more often. Here’s the skinny on what I’ve been up to.
The past month found me in search of a new web host as my previous host has moved out of the business of hosting. I was referred to another provider but they ended up being a little pricey for what my current site needs and so the research began. I finally settled on a host here in Edmonton and found the price and process relatively painless… well sort of. Buying the webspace from the host was easy enough and they provided me with my login information quite quickly. I wasn’t as informed as I thought I had been though and shortly found out that I would have to do all the transferring from old host to new host on my own. This is not something I’ve had a lot of experience doing. I started the process trying to use their system (which wasn’t CPanel that I was used to), to try and upload my files but it refused to pull folders as well as files,which left a great deal of my website still residing on my hard drive where I had backed it up to. This brought me to the idea of using an FTP program which I should have started with as this is the most effective means to upload to a website. By this time you would think I’m ready to go right? Wrong. The next thing I learned was that but switching providers you don’t automatically move, or have to move, your domain name, this is optional. Once everything was transferred and registered I was still having problems getting my page to load. This new problem ended up being a reloading error that caused browsers to point back and forth between URL’s and basically loc
king it up. I found a fix online and edited my wp-config file to correct the error, and voila my site is up again.
All of this is to say that it has been a good experience for me because with every problem I encountered I had to research and find a solution which then adds to my knowledge base. Hopefully I don’t have to do it again for awhile…
Thanks for reading!
Tim
