GotoYourLink.com

My current web hosting at awardspace.com was due to expire. I was not very happy with their service primarily because of the frequent problems associated with the email service. I used to have problems receiving emails and delayed delivery. Also the website were taken down at many occasions for maintenance.


I was using awardspace.com primarily for hosting gotoyourlink.com and couple of business websites. Many of my major website hosting was done at hostgator.com which gave no trouble so far (fingures crossed). So I am pretty sure to move gotoyourlink.com to hostgator.com than any other hosting provider.

However, I have got only couple of days to completely move the web sites to the new hosting. From my experience I know it is only going to take couple of hours if it is a plain website ( if I own the domain name, no databases, no sub domains etc). However gotoyourlink.com has got few databases and sub domains. I do not think it is that simple. I am particularly worried about my blog posts. I have the habit of taking a backup of the blog posts using the wordpress tool. However I am nervous about the short of time and the amount of pictures I may have to upload is quite a bit. The internet links in UAE are notoriously bad on uploading(Uploads are only 1/4 of downloads)

Quite obvious I have googled to see if any one has written about it.

http://cormacmoylan.com/blog/software/how-to-transfer-your-wordpress-blog-from-one-host-to-another-host.eire


After few hours of effort I gave up ! It is easier and cost effective to renew the hosting than wasting couple of days of my time. Also awardspace promised better support and 3 month extension for the renewal.