Over the last month I migrated the Trumblog from Laughing Squid’s standard hosting service to their cloud based hosting. The site was down for a few weeks, but it’s live now. I didn’t do this alone, I had plenty of help online and they deserve kudos.
First of all thanks to Jason Bobich and his simple, straightforward and thorough directions for moving a WordPress blog to a new server. The directions for a move like this that others provided were either unclear or incomplete and had me pulling out my hair until I found Jason’s directions, which made my life so much easier.
One of Jason’s steps in the migration was to use Search Replace DB, a script written by David Coveney, that makes updating your MySQL database simple and pain free, in a way that a find and replace would not have been with TextEdit.
Finally a big thank you to Frank E. at Laughing Squid Help Desk. After confusion and frustration when my exported databases were 0 bytes in size it turned out that the MySQL database for my blog was too large to export or import via phpMyAdmin. Frank at Laughing Squid was awesome with responding in a couple hours, diagnosing my problem and then exporting my database from my original server and importing into the database that I created on my new cloud server. He couldn’t have been more helpful.
Thank you Jason, David and Frank for the help. Without you three the Trumblog would still be a plain white screen.
