Just moved to Dreamhost
This is my first post to the blog after moving everything over to Dreamhost. I followed the procedures here. But essentially, I just:
- tar’ed my wordpress directory from my old server and exported the wordpress MySQL tables to the file wp1.sql using phpMyAdmin
- ftp’ed the files to the new server
- created a database on the new server, created a new user, and from the MySQL command line, executed the wp1.sql file
- updated the wp-config.php file to use the new DB_HOST, and DB_PASSWORD
- copied over the image directory to which certain blog entries link
And voila!
So far, I’ve found their adminstration tools and their setup a bit confusing. For example, when you setup an email address they create an account that looks something like m132435 and you have to use that to configure your mail client. Howeve, besides having this weird kind of setup, the features that their basic account provides is unmatched…from what I’ve researched so far. They give you 40Mb more storate space every week, for example! You can host an unlimited number of domains with them, which means I have the ability to act like a mini ISP and develope websites for other people.
