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Since few months, I’ve been hearing lot of horror stories regarding the security compromises that bloggers have to deal with. It’s open source nature, what has been the boon for WordPress, is now standing against it (For Hardcore Open-source lovers – I am in favor of Open-source all the way and that statement of mine should not be taken as personal attack). There have been many blogs that weren’t using the latest version of WordPress are now infected with some sort of worm or some hacker gets access to the web server and misuses your precious resources. There are cases where they even harm the website by effecting its search engine rankings.

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As you know that we are shifting our blog from Dreamhost servers to WPWebhost servers. We were expecting few issues that you may come across, however didn’t expect that there will be issues that we’ll come across. Anyway, it seems that the all the blogs were transfered properly and without any issues, however there is some problem that I’m facing right now.

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Today we are migrating our blogs to WPWebhost from Dreamhost. You may experience few issues in couple of days, however the best thing is that we are doing it on weekend and thus there should not be any problem at all. I apologize in advance in case there is any issue that you may experience.

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We host polls on our blog too and I’m thankful to you guys that you take precious time of yours and answer those simple questions. In our last poll, I asked the question that how much money do you spend on hosting every month and as expected and thanks to shared hosting plans, almost 55% of bloggers spend less than $10/month.

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Every now and then you’ll find many bloggers using SEO techniques to ensure that they can rank better in search results and many of them share it with others to help them. Alex has written an excellent post where he discusses that what is the importance of a domain name and web hosting in SEO of the blog.

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Around three – four days back, we realized that we weren’t getting any e-mail notification or any e-mail from our blogs (very unlikely) and found out that there was some issue with the server. I got disheartened and I almost lost my temper because of the issue raised because of the server!

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Few posts back, I’d mentioned that how one can move the WordPress blog from one web-host to another in one of the simple ways. However, there is one more simple and quick way of moving the WordPress blog and I would like to share it with you all to ensure that in case you face the problem of changing the host then you won’t have to waste enough time in the process and that you concentrate more on writing.

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