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1:51 pm
October 12, 2010
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retireby40
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Hello everyone,
I joined the Yakezie challenge and just started a blog last week at
http://www.retireby40.org
The blog is now on the wordpress free blog and I am focusing on building the blog, writing new posts and increasing traffic for now.
Is it ok to start on a free webhost first then move to a paid host? Will it be difficult to do this?
When do you think I should move to a new host? I'm thinking once I get 50 or so readers.
Any tips will be appreciated. 
Thanks!
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2:02 pm
October 12, 2010
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Budgeting in the Fun Stuff
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I started at Blogger in February for free with a blogspot domain, bought my domain name a month after that, and then moved to Wordpress 2 months after that. If I could do it all again, I would have just started with Wordpress (but I didn't know anything about blogging then – nothing). Free blogging sites are great if you only want to blog for fun. If you want to build readership (and monetize at any point), a hosted site is the way to go.
BUT, if you really rather start for free and see what happens, it is pretty easy to change to a paid host later on. I don't know how to do it myself, but I am sure there are a thousand articles about it. I paid Blogcrafted.com $125 to transfer my site from Blogger to Wordpress three months after starting, so it isn't too expensive. The hardest part for me was re-learning how to blog since Wordpress and Blogger are so different imho.
Crystal
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2:27 pm
October 12, 2010
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Post edited 2:29 pm – October 12, 2010 by justheather
My husband does WordPress transfers & setup, if you should need to switch. I'll be sure he gives you the Yakezie discount. ;)
That said, it is easier to switch from WP.com to WP.org than it is from any of the other platforms. I'd say you should be okay for now, but self-hosted WP will give you more options for plugins & themes. You're also limited in what advertising you can display, so I guess you'll want to move when monetizing becomes available.
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7:17 pm
October 12, 2010
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retireby40
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Thanks for your advice. I'll start shopping for a hosted site. I'll transfer over by new year at the latest! That's the goal.
I got the domain name already so at least that is taken care of.
I subscribe to both your sites too. I'm starting to get overwhelm by the number of blogs to read though, so many interesting things to read.
-Joe
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7:20 pm
October 12, 2010
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I would say that if you want to do anything serious with your blog, you NEED to self-host! I don't like the idea of gaining traffic and viewers and then making a huge change – like your website address. Also, whatever traffic numbers you've gained (Alexa, page rank, etc) will go out the window once you switch!
I paid only a few dollars to register my domain with GoDaddy using a promo code that I found online, and another $4.95/month to host ($60 for the year)! I say, go for it now and you'll have no regrets (unless you are only doing it for fun).
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7:40 pm
October 12, 2010
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Mike – Saving Money Today
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Do yourself a favor and get yourself a self-hosted domain. You can get shared hosting and a domain for less than $100 a year and you'll have full control. I've heard too many horror stories of people having their blogs deleted without warning.
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4:29 am
October 17, 2010
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I agree, start on self hosted and own domain if money allows.
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4:18 pm
October 17, 2010
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retireby40
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Thanks everyone for the encouragment to move to selfhost.
I went ahead and moved to justhost. It was a pain, but I think it's done now.
Better to feel the pain now rather than later.
Hopefully I didn't lose subscribers.
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10:27 am
October 18, 2010
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You'll be happy you did it in about 3 weeks. The first week you'll still wince at little stuff you have to work out. The second and third weeks, you'll be working out the last kinks and stretching out and getting to new people. By the fourth week, you'll be happy you self-hosted – that's how it was with me. :-) Good luck!
Crystal
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11:56 am
October 18, 2010
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Aloysa
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Budgeting in the Fun Stuff said:
You'll be happy you did it in about 3 weeks. The first week you'll still wince at little stuff you have to work out. The second and third weeks, you'll be working out the last kinks and stretching out and getting to new people. By the fourth week, you'll be happy you self-hosted – that's how it was with me. :-) Good luck!
Crystal
I just moved mine over the weekend. What a pain it was! Well, I better be happy in 4 months! 
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11:57 am
October 18, 2010
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retireby40 said:
Thanks everyone for the encouragment to move to selfhost.
I went ahead and moved to justhost. It was a pain, but I think it's done now.
Better to feel the pain now rather than later.
Hopefully I didn't lose subscribers.
I moved mine too! I am afraid I will lose subscribers but if I do… maybe they were not serious subscribers after all.
Good Luck!
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12:25 pm
October 18, 2010
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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You will surely take a hit to your PageRank when you move to a new domain, which hurts traffic somewhat. But you should not lose any subscribers. Are you using Feedburner to manage your RSS feed? If not, be sure to sign up ASAP.
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12:49 pm
October 18, 2010
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Aloysa said:
Budgeting in the Fun Stuff said:
You'll be happy you did it in about 3 weeks. The first week you'll still wince at little stuff you have to work out. The second and third weeks, you'll be working out the last kinks and stretching out and getting to new people. By the fourth week, you'll be happy you self-hosted – that's how it was with me. :-) Good luck!
Crystal
I just moved mine over the weekend. What a pain it was! Well, I better be happy in 4 months!
WEEKS not months, lol. If it took months to be happy, I'd still be waiting around, hehehe. It is a pain in the butt but ends up being WAY worth it. I get more traffic by a long shot and like the control I have now.
Crystal
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12:51 pm
October 18, 2010
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I lost subscribers when I migrated and have no idea why to this day…I went from 50-60 to 14 overnight. Now I have about 160 and climbing and all of this happened in the last 5 months. Self-hosted is the way to go and I hope you two suffer way less glitches than my non-techy self did…most of it was my problem, lol.
Crystal
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1:08 pm
October 18, 2010
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Budgeting in the Fun Stuff said:
WEEKS not months, lol. If it took months to be happy, I'd still be waiting around, hehehe. It is a pain in the butt but ends up being WAY worth it. I get more traffic by a long shot and like the control I have now.
Crystal
Hahaha! I meant weeks! I can't believe I wrote it.
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1:26 pm
October 18, 2010
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retireby40
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Aloysa said:
retireby40 said:
Thanks everyone for the encouragment to move to selfhost.
I went ahead and moved to justhost. It was a pain, but I think it's done now.
Better to feel the pain now rather than later.
Hopefully I didn't lose subscribers.
I moved mine too! I am afraid I will lose subscribers but if I do… maybe they were not serious subscribers after all.
Good Luck!
I had a bunch of problems, but I think most of them are solved now.
Don't forget to update your feedburner. I went to your old site and the RSS there still point to the old site.
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1:56 pm
October 18, 2010
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I had a bunch of problems, but I think most of them are solved now.
Don't forget to update your feedburner. I went to your old site and the RSS there still point to the old site.
Retire by40 – how do I do it? 
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3:58 pm
October 18, 2010
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retireby40
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Aloysa said:
I had a bunch of problems, but I think most of them are solved now.
Don't forget to update your feedburner. I went to your old site and the RSS there still point to the old site.
Retire by40 – how do I do it?
go to http://feedburner.google.com/
and log in. (in my case I must have signed up with two emails so I had to fix two accounts.)
Click on your feed title (mine is retireby40.org)
click on edit feed detail than put in the correct feed from your self host site.
I think this will fix the feedburner side.
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7:58 pm
October 18, 2010
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retireby40 said:
go to http://feedburner.google.com/
and log in. (in my case I must have signed up with two emails so I had to fix two accounts.)
Click on your feed title (mine is retireby40.org)
click on edit feed detail than put in the correct feed from your self host site.
I think this will fix the feedburner side.
Great! Did that and hopefully it worked! Thank you so much!
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1:27 pm
November 27, 2010
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Sunil from The Extra Money Blog
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i'd say asap – better yet get on it to begin with. get a blog theme you like, and get it up on a cheap host to start off (HostGator i have heard is very cheap)
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