Ok, here we go… again

Up to just after I came to France, my ‘My Trike’ web site was hosted on a business account with several others that I ran at the time but which have now all been run down since my retirement. ‘My Trike’ is the only one left, but it has remained on the business web hosting account that has been costing me considerably more per month than I really need to be paying. So today I’m going to be doing something about it, by terminating my account with my current (UK based) web host and migrating ‘My Trike’ to a new (US based) one and in the process saving myself a considerable amount of money per year.

Migrating a web site to a new host is not something that you do lightly because there is an element of risk involved. You have to take great care to back everything up properly, both the ‘simple’ web page data and the more complex, such as any, usually, MySQL databases that are used. If you miss anything or foul anything up, especially with the databases, then you can end up at best with lost and irrecoverable data or at worst with a non-functioning web site, possibly as, in my case, after many years compiling it. And you also need to know what you’re doing when it comes to recovering the data you’ve backed up onto the new host’s servers.

But I’ve done it twice before, I think from memory, with ‘My Trike’ so I’m already quite experienced in the process and will be doing it all over again today. This will be my final post on my old hosting company’s server and when I come back it will be with ‘My Trike’ having been migrated over to the new one. So here’s ‘fingers crossed’ and looking foward to seeing you over on the other side. If you get a ‘400 error – page not found’ message when you next try to log on you’ll know that I didn’t make it…