Comments on: Weblog Migration Is a Painful Process or Is It Not? http://www.elsua.net/2005/10/11/weblog-migration-is-a-painful-process-or-is-it/ A blog about Knowledge Management, Communities, Collaboration, Learning, Social Computing and Work/Life Balance Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:56:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Juglar :: Apuntes para Blogsome :: September :: 2005 http://www.elsua.net/2005/10/11/weblog-migration-is-a-painful-process-or-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-321 Juglar :: Apuntes para Blogsome :: September :: 2005 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:29:08 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/?p=3#comment-321 [...] Migrar desde Blogsome a otro alojamiento « Anterior: Convertir temas WordPress a Blogsome Siguiente: Usando del.icio.us: Bookmarklets » [...] [...] Migrar desde Blogsome a otro alojamiento « Anterior: Convertir temas WordPress a Blogsome Siguiente: Usando del.icio.us: Bookmarklets » [...]

]]> By: Luis Suarez http://www.elsua.net/2005/10/11/weblog-migration-is-a-painful-process-or-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Luis Suarez Thu, 03 Nov 2005 23:01:38 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/?p=3#comment-75 Thanks a lot, Matthew, for the Trackback and for the superb tip ! Yes, indeed, initially, that is exactly what I had thought about doing. In principle, I didn't want to move over all of the different weblog posts from <a href="http://lsr.blogsome.com" rel="nofollow"><i>LSR</i></a>, only those that I would want to keep over at the new weblog and that was it. So I had thought about using <a href="http://www.elsua.net/2005/10/20/qumana-making-your-content-readily-available-in-your-weblog-without-hardly-any-effort/" rel="nofollow">Qumana</a> for that, instead of <a href="http://ecto.kung-foo.tv" rel="nofollow">Ecto</a>. With <a href="http://www.elsua.net/2005/10/21/the-payoffs-of-listening-to-your-end-users/" rel="nofollow">Qumana's latest version</a> you can retrieve an <i>N</i> of weblog posts and then repost them back into the new weblog location. I did a couple of tests with that approach and I noticed that it would take me under 2 minutes to post content into the new weblog. And I thought that was a good option. However, your improvement tip is something worth while investigating further and keeping it as a reference for the future, just in case. So thanks again for sharing it with us ! The thing is, as you have well mentioned, that I asked the <i>superb</i> Admin Team from <a href="http://www.blogsome.com" rel="nofollow">Blogsome</a> if I could have a backup of the different weblog posts and within the next few hours I had an e-mail in my Inbox with the entire weblog posts from <a href="http://lsr.blogsome.com" rel="nofollow"><i>LSR</i></a> as a zipped file and ready to import into the new server location, which the folks where I am hosting the weblog now kindly agreed to upload. So in the end what I thought was going to be a painful process it turned out to be rather easy and in no time. Something that I am really grateful for to both the <a href="http://blogsome.com" rel="nofollow">Blogsome</a> folks and the guys where I host <a href="http://www.elsua.net" rel="nofollow">elsua</a>. Regarding your other feedback about opening up my weblog for comments, I must say that I never gave it a try thinking that I wouldn't want to handle all those spam comments that you keep on hearing about all over the place. On the other hand, I do have got the <a href="http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2005/05/11/wordpress-hashcash-20/" rel="nofollow">WordPress Hashcash plugin</a> installed in this weblog so I guess I could give it a try and see how long it would last without getting hammered with the comments. Thus I am going to follow your suggestion and see how long it will take me before I lock it again. Let's see. Let the games begin ! Thanks a lot, Matthew, for the Trackback and for the superb tip ! Yes, indeed, initially, that is exactly what I had thought about doing. In principle, I didn’t want to move over all of the different weblog posts from LSR, only those that I would want to keep over at the new weblog and that was it. So I had thought about using Qumana for that, instead of Ecto. With Qumana’s latest version you can retrieve an N of weblog posts and then repost them back into the new weblog location. I did a couple of tests with that approach and I noticed that it would take me under 2 minutes to post content into the new weblog. And I thought that was a good option. However, your improvement tip is something worth while investigating further and keeping it as a reference for the future, just in case. So thanks again for sharing it with us !

The thing is, as you have well mentioned, that I asked the superb Admin Team from Blogsome if I could have a backup of the different weblog posts and within the next few hours I had an e-mail in my Inbox with the entire weblog posts from LSR as a zipped file and ready to import into the new server location, which the folks where I am hosting the weblog now kindly agreed to upload. So in the end what I thought was going to be a painful process it turned out to be rather easy and in no time. Something that I am really grateful for to both the Blogsome folks and the guys where I host elsua.

Regarding your other feedback about opening up my weblog for comments, I must say that I never gave it a try thinking that I wouldn’t want to handle all those spam comments that you keep on hearing about all over the place. On the other hand, I do have got the WordPress Hashcash plugin installed in this weblog so I guess I could give it a try and see how long it would last without getting hammered with the comments. Thus I am going to follow your suggestion and see how long it will take me before I lock it again. Let’s see. Let the games begin !

]]> By: Paint the Tiger • Carve the Swan » Moving from Blogsome http://www.elsua.net/2005/10/11/weblog-migration-is-a-painful-process-or-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Paint the Tiger • Carve the Swan » Moving from Blogsome Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:14:13 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/?p=3#comment-74 [...] Luis Suarez, over at elsua.net wanted to know how to get his posts out of Blogsome. [...] [...] Luis Suarez, over at elsua.net wanted to know how to get his posts out of Blogsome. [...]

]]> By: elsua.net » Blog Archive » Weblog Content Migration Is about to Get Started http://www.elsua.net/2005/10/11/weblog-migration-is-a-painful-process-or-is-it/comment-page-1/#comment-7 elsua.net » Blog Archive » Weblog Content Migration Is about to Get Started Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:25:00 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/?p=3#comment-7 [...] That is right, folks. The weblog contents migration from LSR into elsua is just about to get started. If you remember correctly, last week I mentioned how I was looking into the possibilities of getting all of the contents from my old weblog into the new one and how I talked about the fact that it may be a bit more difficult than what I thought it would be. Well, that is actually not going to be the case. [...] [...] That is right, folks. The weblog contents migration from LSR into elsua is just about to get started. If you remember correctly, last week I mentioned how I was looking into the possibilities of getting all of the contents from my old weblog into the new one and how I talked about the fact that it may be a bit more difficult than what I thought it would be. Well, that is actually not going to be the case. [...]

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