In the process of moving ER-Fans, Elijah suggested I try out IX because they had a good deal on storage and bandwidth. And after looking into them, I discovered they also allow multiple domains, which was just what I needed, so I wouldn’t have to deal with multiple hosting companies for my different websites.

After running ER-Fans for a couple of weeks, I ran into some ftp problems with IX and got them sorted out with their technical support in a reasonably quick response time. So I decided to test out a move for philomyth.us, with the hosting contract expiring in December (can’t believe it’s already been a year, more on that in a later post).

After transferring all the files and setting up the database, I ran into minor import problems with the database tables (the wordpress database plugin caused some errors), which I was able to fix with some manual manipulation. Aside from that, the test ran so smoothly, I couldn’t tell the difference between the old and the new. So I just went ahead and made the switch. I can’t believe it worked that easily…I’m still crossing my fingers, waiting for something to break.

Update 1: When I went to publish this post, I encountered an error. It turns out that it was a bit too good to be true. The site was running off a cache that was transferred over, so when I made changes to the site, the cache went to update, and that’s when I encountered problems. All I had to do was to properly set the permissions, so all is good now, I hope.

Update 2: If anyone is reading now, you’ll notice that the theme has changed back to a default (plain vanilla boring). Something happened with my theme, so I am now in the process of re-installing it. I guess “I spoke too soon” would be an understatement, hehe, then again, I was expecting as much.