I just signed up for a first year free or almost free package. When the one year is up, I just move to another host. Since I have done the migrating a couple of times now, I have even learned to do it in a few simple steps, without involving the MySQL or any scripting whatsoever.

But, there are two lessons learned along the process. First, never take the “free” domain offered by this hosting companies if you plan to move out after a year. The “free” domain doesn’t register under your name and you need the permission of the hosting company that provides the “free” domain (the current registrar) to transfer the domain. Generally, they would lock the transfer of your domain one month before it expires and that would cause much delay when you try to transfer the domain and move your blog to another hosting company. It took seven days for me to be able to successfully transfer a “free” domain out.

The second lesson is: make sure the hosting company allows shell access. You cannot do a direct import of the posts, comments and categories from your old host if you do not have access to the root directory. This hosting company doesn’t allow access to their root directory for security reason. What lame excuse, don’t they heard of unix security software ? Luckily it is free for the first year, so I am still thinking should I get a new domain and start a new blog there, or just abandon it totally?

Have been resting and taking it easy in the last few days, after the heroic act of driving around town to run some errands. Hey, even a simple movement like shifting the gears actually used a lot of the muscles around the abdomen, where the wounds are. Have to take care of the diet too, no Kim Chi and kava kava for now, as they both can potentially cause obstruction in me. The pelvic pain is killing me right now.

Will continue to migrate the other blogs to a different host in the coming week. It’s not that difficult to migrate a wordpress blog to a new host. One service provider actually charge $99.90 for the task, what a rip off! Anyone wants to change host? I can do the migration for $29.90. :-)

And suddenly this blog is getting all this hits from people who are searching for answer to the significance of the green onion on Prince Charles’ lepel.:-)

I took a look at the stats and realised that this post ranked first for this keywords!

And this same post also ranked at second and third for a few other similar keywords. Wow!

I actually read all of them in one sitting, of course skipped some of the paid ones. Most of the comment posts are read in a click, thank goodness for “mark all as read” button. ;-)

Even though I try to keep up with most of your posts, I would not be hopping over to your blog to comment most of the time as time is scarce. It has to wait till the mountain that I am packing shrink in size a little bit.

Anyway, after segmented out by region, domain, page rank and traffic, there are not many opportunities for a Blogspot with PR0 on the TigaP. Whatever available to PR0 will be grabbed before you can blink your eyes. Actually have not gotten any opps since January! So, decided to part with TigaP even though it’s one of the blogs that gets the most traffics from search engine and has better Real Rank.

People don’t blog about political and social issues doesn’t mean they don’t care a little lesser than you do. Blog about social political issues and rant about the government do not make you more altruistic than us.

Since it has been smacked to PR0 and being on a subdomain, there is really no much opportunity to write paid posts on it. The blog has hit quite a few keywords in its niche and rank high in the SERP for this keywords. It gets a lot of search engine traffics and has been doing quite well with Adsense recently.

Should I?

I do wonder what causes the server to be down for more than an hour this time. Virus attack?

Happy New Year to all! May 2008 be the year you get to have the time to do all the things you want to do. My wish on the top of the list is to clean out the “stuffs” in the house that I’ve been unable to do for the past two years. I either have to give away, sell or just dump many of the stuffs to prepare for the big move in spring.

The plugin is rather simple and probably an easy way to pass some linky love to you for commenting! If you’re interested to install the same on your blog, go ahead and download Commentluv and start spreading the love around!

For those of you who are reading this in the feeds, this is another reason for you to jump on this blog to leave me a comment.:-)

After seeing many bloggers earning money by writing paid-post, I started writing paid posts on the other blog that hosted on Blogspot. When I learned that many advertisers prefer self hosted blogs with own domains, I bought this domain and went dot com with the money earned from writing paid posts on the other blog.

This blog is three months old, so I submitted it to PayPerPost in beginning of the week. Today, I got the approval email!

This is my first PayPerPost post on Leah’s Cafe. Since this blog hasn’t obtained any PR, it’s very unlikely that many opps will be available. You will be seeing some paid posts scatter sparingly on this blog from now on. Whenever opportunity presents itself, I will take it, but will try to keep it relevant.:-)

I have some ideas to start another blog but was not able to pull it off because of being sick with the flu and then the strep throat last couple of weeks. It’s going to be a new venture !

Despite of all the new rules, many of us still do Payperpost, I think currently it’s still THE network that has the most variety of opps. I like the varieties, which mean I can pick and choose. Though there will be a struggle between picking a more relevant topic or the higher paid one.

I have signed up a Tera-Host package with Hostican, the plan includes 500,000MB (500GB) of disk space, unmetered monthly bandwidth, a free for life domain, allows unlimited subdomain and add on domains. I paid slightly less than RM200 for a year by utilising the $65 coupon code. I am happy with the support and service so far, initially when I have difficulty getting around, I get rather quick responds to the support tickets submitted. Hostican provides a easy peasy c-panel that comes with fantastico, a very user friendlly interface that you can use to install/upgrade the wordpress software.

*No, this is not a sponsored post :-)

I have removed the nofollow on my blog. You may not know that when you leave a comment on a blog, a “no follow” tag is automatically inserted so that the link is NOT spidered by search engines. Therefore when you leave comments on blogs that aren’t using Do Follow yet, it wouldn’t increase backlinks in the search engine.

To make it easier for all of YOU to find blogs that are using Do Follow, I’m joining the “D List“. Not only can you visit the blogs on this list, leave a comment, and get a REAL link back to your site (because they’re all using Do Follow), you’ll increase links to your blog by adding your blog to the D list.

This DoFollow Blog list is courtesy of Courtney Tuttle and was created originally by Coleen as the D-List.