Up On Main Street

I had a blog at wordpress.com but since it is free software, was very limited to what I wanted to do with it. So I moved to a paid hosting.

The free blog was uponmainstreet.wordpress.com

The paid hosting blog is uponmainstreet.com

I didn’t have a lot of posts at the wordpress blog but enough that I did not want to lose them. If you are going to move to paid hosting, see if the hosting plan has one click install for a wordpress blog. This makes your move extremely easy to do and will explain in Part 2.

1. Find a hosting company. I used godaddy.com (see GoDaddy.com Hosting Plans)
for my hosted blog as I found they were the cheapest hosting company. The blog does not take up a lot of room so I just started with the Economy Plan. It is $3.99 for 2 months or if you want a 12 month plan it is $3.79. I purchased the plan for 36 months and it was only $3.39 a month. The reason I purchased so long was: 1. the discount. 2. If I decide in a year to move to another hosting company, I will be refunded for the time that I have not used. As time goes by, if I need more space I can upgrade but the Economy plan has plenty of available space!

2. Register your domain. I already owned my domain, but if you purchase the hosting plan through godaddy, your domain purchase will only be US$1.99 at the time you buy the hosting plan. This is so much cheaper than any other place I have found. I have seen other companies that a domain name purchase is up to $15.

3. Wait for setup. Once you have purchased your hosting and domain name (from whomever you decide). You have to wait for the hosting company to set up your host plan. This can take anywhere from a few hours to 48 hours. My hosting was set up within about 2 hours and I was ready to rock and roll!

4. Once setup is complete. If you have never had paid hosting take a look around in your admin area and look at all the different information that is available for you.

Go to step 2 to see how you will be moving your information from your wordpress.com blog to your paid hosting account.