The Prairiedog Files Yup, another wordpress blog

Bye bye Blogger, hello WordPress

As of today, I've switched to WordPress from Blogger. This was spurred by Google's decision to end FTP support. I'm sure the technical reasons are very compelling for them; even from this end the process of republishing my modest blog became more drawn out and unreliable each time due to the ftp transfer.

Since I prefer to be in full control of the site so I can add other non-blog content, I decided to stay with hosting my own domain. During the Blogger years my site was hosted on canaca.com servers. At the time their deal was decent and so were the features. The support was never very prompt though, and over time the features and pricing has remained unchanged as far as I can tell, while the hosting industry has very much moved on.

A quick search turned up these highly-recommended instructions on migrating to WordPress from Blogger, and in fact Blogger importing is part of the standard feature set of WordPress. Fancy. I really did shop around for hosting, but I settled on bluehost.com because they are wordpress-ready and highly rated by the folks at wordpress.org.

Migration was easy enough, including set up of my 3 email addresses and 60 aliases. Why aliases? Sign up for a newsletter/website/product, and give them their very own email address to contact you. If they spam it, just delete the alias. Thank you and goodbye. This alone is almost justification for having my own domain and mail server, which takes me back to my original point; the management interface is able to import the entire list from a csv or xls file!

Anyway, enough raving about this for now. Bluehost.com good. WordPress good.

-M