I have spent the past few days outlining plans for upgrading our blog hosting. Through my research, I have come up with some goals for February. There are so many decisions in making an interactive and helpful blog, I have decided to take it one step at a time.
Goals for February
- Change from Blogger to WordPress. There are so many more options and plugins available with WordPress. This change will give us a solid platform for anything we want to do in the future with our Blog.
- Find a WordPress friendly blog hosting service.
- Make a new page to document learnings around upgrading the Blog and SEO improvements.
- Start to build some helpful resources for our readers around personal finance.
Change from Blogger to WordPress.
My first goal has not been easy so far. I have owned the domain name independenceendeavor.com since 2013 but have done very little with it in that time. It started as a blog on Blogger and I upgraded through Google to register the name as a dot com. Since then Google has upgraded their admin to G Suite.
After much comparing various blog hosting providers, I signed up with BlueHost. When I tried to install WordPress to the site, it gave me an error -install directory exists and is not empty. When I called BlueHost, they informed me that I couldn’t install WordPress because the URL was being hosted at GoDaddy through G-Suite. I then called GoDaddy, who also couldn’t help much. I needed to log into my G-Suite account to make the DNS changes required. The problem was, I didn’t have a G-Suite account, or so I thought. After a few calls and tickets with G-Suite, I was finally able to access the area to transfer my hosting to BlueHost.
All 3 businesses (BlueHost, GoDaddy and G-Suite) were very helpful through several phone calls to correct the issue. I think this was a fairly unique circumstance as the site was registered so long ago and basically left dormant.
I have now completed all the required steps to transfer independenceendeavor.com to BlueHost for my blog hosting. The site was down for a couple days but back up now and better than ever.
Hope my other goals for the Blog in February aren’t as time consuming.
Thanks for reading.
Ike
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