Decisions, decisions

I’ve been mulling (or rather agonizing) about using Startlogic to host my new website, since my last post. Man, I didn’t know it would be this tough to make a decision, arguably so because I’m going to be spending some money to host my new site (my previous host in Geocities was free). The weather also wasn’t on my side-it has been hot and dry lately, which makes me want to turn on the air-conditioning for the whole day. Won’t do that, otherwise I’d end up with an expensive electricity bill.

I’ll probably ponder over it for another few days or so. No sense rushing into it, but I’m also not going to put it off too long. Have been writing a book and plan to sell it on my site. Looks like exciting and challenging times are coming up for me.

Moving house, Part 2

I’m sure you’ll agree that moving house is one of the most traumatic experiences one can ever go through in life, next to divorce or the loss of a loved one. I know, I had to move house once, and it took at least a week or two for the dust to settle. And hopefully I won’t have to go through it again.

The feeling seems (for me at least) to be the same now that I am strongly thinking of moving house on the Internet. My old Geocities website just doesn’t seem to cut it anymore, and this present WordPress blog of mine, though free, does have its limitations. So there are 3 big steps I have to take:

1. Find a suitable web host and obtain my own domain.
2. Import my WordPress blog into this new domain, and integrate it.
3. Do a lot of work on this new website (the new house).

For #1, I’m considering either Startlogic or Lunarpages. Both offer very competitive rates, and have a ton of features available. I should know, I got all glossy-eyed just skimming through all that information. #2 I’m not so worried about, as importing my WordPress blog into it shouldn’t be that hard.

#3 is a different kettle of fish. I’ll probably be spending the most time on this, because I want to make a good first impression when I launch my new website to the world. So I’ll have to hunker down with lots of patience and determination (and not forgetting the coffee) but it just has to be done, lol.

If anyone has any good advice, I’m all ears. And I’d also like to thank my friend and fellow geek Doris, for her unending words of wisdom and cheer. Doris, when my website is ready, you can come over and visit (I’ll make sure the guest quarters are ready, heh heh).

Moving house

Although I’ve liked my WordPress.com blog very much, I know there will come a time when I’ll have to move to WordPress.org, namely because it’ll give me a lot more flexibility. Of course before I do that, I’ll have to look around for a suitable web host, either locally or overseas. The Geocities host where I’m currently hosting my website is probably not going to do, since I don’t want all the ads. After getting a web host, I’ll need to download and install the latest WordPress 2.5 (is that correct?) import all my blog posts, etc. A lot of stuff for my brain to think about!