It’s been a busy week though. I have successfully “self-migrated” to WP Engine – a fairly big step up from Bluehost in both service and price. If you noticed, I put the “self-migrated” in quotes because it was more like “self-creating disaster”. For those of you yet to move to a different webhost or migrate your site for some other reason, DON’T DO IT on your own. Those instructions look simple but it’s a lie. Much like a fast-moving Walmart line is a lie. Happily, the IT team was able to help and we finally got everything sorted out sometime Friday.
I didn’t really write anything of my own beyond the updates of my super crappy migration situation. So, onto bigger and better stuff.
Saturday’s Sweet Savage Link Love:
Mom and Dad Money shows us What Pawn Shops Can Teach Banks (and Us) About Risk Management?
Budget and the Beach’s contributor Kyle James asks Are We Seeing a Societal Shift in Needs Vs Wants?
Pauline from Reach Financial Independence talks about good options for how Frugal and Social Can Go Together.
John from Frugal Rules starts a discussion about When should you start saving for retirement?
Money Bulldog raises a good point when he asks “Why did we stop questioning inflation?” * I know this is originally from last week but I really liked his point that we kind of just accept that this is completely reasonable behaviour.
Young Adult Money’s Staff Writer Cat Alford talks honestly about her Student Loans: My Biggest Financial Mistake
Canadian Budget Binder offer us a compassionate view of living homeless in his article The Saturday Weekend Review #31: Homeless and Living on $8.00 a day
Cheezy Romance Selection of the Week: Lock, Stock & Secret Baby
I read this one and it’s awesome. Who knew that spies and psychopaths and secret babies could be a recipe for sweet, sweet love.
It’s Blake’s mission to protect pregnant Eve from a psychopath. But his soldier instincts are put to the ultimate test when she stirs an intense passion in him that Blake doesn’t know if he can keep under control…
When my new site moves it will be with Blue Host. Is that who you were with? Why did you move? Your blog is coming along nicely which is much more than I can say for mine which I’ve been waiting for since last year. Anyhow, it all looks great.. thanks for sharing a CBB post!
It’s always a pleasure sharing your posts, Mr. CBB. You never fail to deliver. 🙂
Your blog is AMAZING. You have thousands of followers on Facebook and I haven’t seen anyone who has such an engaged fan base. I aim for that.
If you’re interested, I have a whale post up about why I migrated my site – maybe it will help shed some light on the Ups and Downs. In terms of waiting to move your blog, you are a very careful and thorough individual. It only makes sense that you’ll think it through until your satisfied that you’ve made the right choice. Your blog is also probably massive at this point which might cause reservations. Talk later!
Nice job getting it done yourself. I just bought some new url’s so I’ll be interested to see if I can figure everything out in getting it set up with a host (i use host gator) before I even get started. Onward and upward! Thanks for mentioning Kyle’s article!
You do that too? That’s awesome – I must own six or seven different domain names to go along with the six or seven hundred ideas I have for future plans.
If Hostgator has a C Panel, I might be able to help you out. I’ve done pretty much everything on my own so maybe I can help get the ball rolling. Talk soon.
I hope you had a great weekend!!!
You too buddy!
Thanks for the shout out Lindsey! I definitely messed up part of my own migration and it cost my site a few days. Definitely frustrating in the moment, but in the big scheme of things it’s nothing. Hope the new host is treating you right.
Hey Matt, it was an awesome article and totally worthy of a shout out. You’re right, it is frustrating in the moment but I think it will be worth it in the long run. I needed to adjust a little bit to their tech support delivery but their people know their stuff. Well worth my blog-less angst I suffered at the time. 😉
Truth be told, I’m not sure I’d self migrate again. Way too many things can go wrong.
Great job in self-migrating your site! It’s quite difficult in migrating a site to WP. Have a great week ahead of you!
To be honest, I’m not sure I’d self-migrate again! Especially as my blog gets bigger. I’ve learned a lot from the experience but I’m not sure that I want to relive that headache ever. Thanks for stopping by!
Thanks so much for the mention here, it’s a pleasure to be in such great company. I was having a chat with the good folk of WP Engine myself the other day so I’d be really interested to hear how you get on with them. I’ve heard many good things but then I did about HostGator! Hope you had a great weekend.
WP Engine was a good move for me even though it the migration process was a hassle. Hostgator will probably serve you well too, I just found that my Bluehost service was going really downhill as time went on. I’m hoping this switch turns out better!