If you haven’t noticed, I have switched from Godaddy Hosting to Justhost And I do think the load up time on this blog has double or tripled. We all fall in to that little trap where we want to keep our hosting and domains together and then I started hating the slow speed of the page loading. So that is why I decided to switch. Now this is so much faster on my end, and I am sure it is on your end too. While moving this blog, I did learn some things:

1. No matter how prepared you think you are, it is never enough –  I don’t say this lightly.   When I started doing the move, I thought I understood how to do it.    I now know, I should of been more prepared by testing it on a local drive by using Xamp.  If I would of done that, I would of figured out that the backup file was incomplete and would of fixed that but I didn’t.   That is why the Site was down for more than 12 hours.
2. Always make sure you do a complete backup –   I thought I did a complete backup but as you can tell, I didn’t.   I learned more about phpmyadmin then I have in a long time.   I also learned what not to do.   This has been an eye opening experience for me!!
3. Don’t be afraid to ask for help –  I called out for help several times with JustHost support, and I find they do a pretty good turn around with helping you out.    They do try to help and it was as fast or faster than Godaddy.  They both have their flaws but I am still happy to of switched.
4. Make sure you dedicate several hours to the move –  Now I didn’t say this was going to be easy, in fact I do believe this was the hardest thing I have done because of my ill experience with WordPress and hosting.    I will say though, most of what went wrong was due to me no following a outline.
5. Don’t Panic –  If nothing goes right, don’t get upset with your computer.   This one is a bit of laugh for me because I really didn’t panic to much but I was upset that it didn’t go my way.   Although I know I did everything right in the first place, I was still quite upset.   I don’t know why I couldn’t get a full backup of my database, but I finally figured out how to!!

Although, I still have a Forum to transfer over here.   I plan to do that sometime next week when I can do it with confidence.     I will definitely recommend Justhost to anyone who wants to get away from Godaddy hosting.   Even after all I had to go through at least now I have a faster load page response.

Thanks

I hope you have a good Monday.