Well, here we are. You would not believe the pain-in-the-arse hassle I’ve had to get to this point. I’ve changed web hosts, because GoDaddy don’t allow SSH connections, (Bluehost to the resuce!), but then found I needed to provide photo-ID to Bluehost before they would enable SSH on my hosting account. I’ve been cursing Firefox [...]

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Well, it’s almost ready! I’ve got WordPress, mysql and PHP running on my local Ubuntu host. I’ve imported a theme that I really like and I’ve customised it so that I can display my Xbox Live Gamercard. All I need to do now is back everything up; change the pointers on my WordPress database to [...]

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As I mentioned in the previous post, I’d intended to move away from Quickblog and set up WordPress instead. Having got some direction on this from the technical support guys at GoDaddy, I figured the best way to migrate with minimum downtime was to setup a Linux web, php and mysql server on my own [...]

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