I am done with Blogger
Posted on November 6, 2007 in the Ranting, Technology category
The first year or so of this blog went rather well from a hosting standpoint - I had been using Blogspot as the host and there was never a problem. That all changed a couple of months ago when I switched to my own hosting via 1and1.com that I experience issues. I have had enough abuse, so I am moving on to WordPress.
I am sure you have run into the issue where publishing a post becomes a nightmare. On and off for several weeks now (about 50% of the time or more) I get an error “Your publish is taking longer than expected. To continue waiting for it to finish, click here.” This error could reoccur for just a few minutes up to a couple of days at a time (usually several hours) which is incredibly frustrating. I publish via FTP because I have my own hosting and this seems to be a common issue among other self-hosted blogs. After spending hours searching through Google forums among other, I have decided to switch as many others have already done. Its strange to note that, I found this thread in Google Groups about this very issue that was initiated about when I started having problems as well. A Blogger Employee had offered a couple of responses and the obligatory “I will get back to you” type of reponse - that was 2 months ago, still with no resolution.
So off I go - hopefully the process wont be too painful. I hope to be done with it by next week sometime. Anyone else have this same issue? Are you going to change?
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What happened to moving to Wordpress ?
I am working on it - I have been experimenting with various templates on another blog before I go for it here. My big concern has been maintaining my backlinks after I switch because Wordpress uses a different post slug structure than Blogger - but I think I have found a work around for that. Wordpress should be up here by tomorrow I think.
-Mat