New Home
I’m on my new host, Lunarpages. Weee! Allow me a few moments to babble on this.
I just said in my previous post that I do learn things by “loitering” in the world wide web. I’m definitely no expert in computers and all of those technical programming language stuff. But I do surprise myself at times by the risk I’m taking just to see if I can make things work even if I don’t truly understand them. By risk, I mean shelling out more than a few bucks for something that may or may not turn out right for me. Specifically for this post, blogging on a personal domain and on a paid host. The first time I set up this blog, it took me more than two weeks of WordPress installation and re-installations before I was able to have a fully functional site. What I learned is that it requires a great deal of perseverance to achieve your goal by trying to do something you are practically ignorant about; you also need to have an ardent desire to go with it. Lucky for me, I relished the trial and error process even if it robbed me of hours and hours of sleep.
I also announced here that I may have to go offline when I change hosts because I’ll have to reassign the domain nameservers and I’m not really sure if the process will be instant. Without dwelling too much on it, it turned out the site stayed online after all. Which made me happy. Actually, that’s all I really want to say. I’m happy because I now have unlimited server space and bandwidth (this one I don’t think I’ll need), at least for the next two years. Brace yourself for unlimited gibberish from yours truly. (Well, at least if you’re still with me by this point.)
Congrats! Maybe you could write about some guide on how you did it? That would sure help a lot of us newbies out here.
And I gotta say, your site’s looking good.
Thanks corics! I’ve been meaning to write some sort of “guide”. If I can condense my thoughts into an intelligible set of directions or how-tos, I’ll post here.
Re: the site, it’s the template. Found it last night while searching for 3-column free themes and I’m loving it.
i thought free site set-up was supposed to be part of the services offered when you change hosts? darn! it better be… since i’m practically a numbskull over such matters. that’s one of the reason why i’m kinda hesitant over changing quarters
@onyxx, I’m not really sure what “free set-up” means because I e-mailed one other hosting provider with that same offer but they told me they would only provide instructions on how to transfer the files but they won’t do it for you.