Why We Migrated this Blogger Blog To Hostgator ? | .::APAJR::.

                    

 

MBT went down yesterday for 24 hours because we have made some major improvements to how this blog will operate  in future. I would like to thank everyone for their consistent feedback and for bearing with us during this maintenance. We are in no way interested in upgrading it to Wordpress or any other platform. This blog will remain hosted at Blogger and all its posts, image data and feeds will keep on operating from Blogger.com servers. I personally took this huge risk of transferring MybloggerTricks.com domain from its previous registrar to HostGator because I wanted to add some new features to this little blog. Readership is increasing and I am not able as an individual to do justice with dozens of queries posted everyday. We are looking forward to build an active, lively and useful community for newbie bloggers.  In order to bring more exciting ways of improving the standard of blogspot blogs we needed extra storage space and sub domains. All this is possible with an extra premium space where we can save our resources and introduce new online tools. In order to make this possible we transferred our domain to Hostgator and purchased an extra space.

 

What Do We Mean by Migrating To Hostgator?

 

Blogger provides free hosting service. You don't need to pay for uploading your posts and images. Everything is free for every user except a custom domain and extra space for storing your external files like JavaScript, Flash, HTML pages etc. A normal Google blog has the following similar URL:

 

xyz.blogspot.com

 

When you buy a custom domain like .com or .net. It gets branded with a more professional look like this,

 

xyz.com   or xyz.net   or   xyz.org

 

 

Now that was just a domain purchase but what if you are looking to open a forum or a service page for your blog? You need subdomains for that, which means you need web hosting for those new pages. Following URLs are examples of sub domains,

 

services.xyz.com

forum.xyz.com

portfolio.xyz.com

 

We needed a reliable web host which could provide us with  domain hosting as well as web hosting. I researched deeply which web host to choose. Every hosting company was offering something new and exciting but I was looking for a webhost with great customer service. Finally we chose Hostgator due to their excellent developed servers, online reputation and extremely friendly customer service. I can't thank enough the technical support provided by Hostgator's live chat service. Whether it was about DNS settings or understanding how to use the Cpanel, the agents were extremely helpful. They chatted with me for hours during the transfer and helped me with everything I needed. All this  technical help was offered for free. In fact I learnt a lot from these conversations and can now confidently guide you all with every technical detail that you may need to take your simple Blogger blog to the next level.

 

Our Commitment

 

I never called this blog mine and this is one reason I mostly avoid saying "I" and rather prefer saying "We". This blog is running thanks to kind readers like you. If there is anything that gives me more happiness then it is "Helping you with your problems". We have been asked several times that why don't we upgrade this Blog to Wordpress. My answer always remained simple. "Blogger provides us with everything we need then why transfer and waste money?" Blogger has highly secured servers with 24 hours run time, free unlimited image storage and video storage capacity. Yes Wordpress is very good because there are thousands of developers producing something new each day and I respect that. So far for this blogging level, Blogger has provided us with all facilities and we will keep on educating newbie bloggers with new exciting tutorials, widgets, templates and resources as long as we can. We wont abandon you by making a migration to a different platform. We will always work hard and serve you to the best of our potential. In my coming posts, my main focus will be discussing the technical details of this network expansion. Thanks for turning this simple blog into a great community. Peace and blessings pals! :)