It didn’t cost anything to transfer, but the GoDaddy service cost me AUD$140 for 12 months, and 7L was costing me AUD$103 a month (!!). ‘Twas a no brainer in the end. I get 150GB space and 1.5 TB bandwidth – should be plenty ;P.

Granted, at 7L I had a fully dedicated computer all to myself. But I was using about 1% of the CPU power, and not much of the disk.

They have pre-packaged apps that install on the click of a button. I’ve already installed wordpress for blogs, and a gallery for pictures. They have a boat-load of these apps ready to go (including phpBB and others… )

Plus I get SSH access, although I’ve not done this yet….

All in all pretty good, although the connection to the management stuff can be slow at times, my actual site seems pretty swift.

Update: Actually, it turns out you get what you pay for. And in this instance, I paid for a poor user interface, and pestering emails offering to upgrade my account. But, the thing hasn’t failed yet.

I gave up managing my own email server a while ago – just too much work to keep on top of the spam.  And now Gmail is fast becoming my main mail online anyway.  It has IMAP and  aliases, which means I can keep my @infinitylimited.net account, and others (like my @computer.org account, which I got through the IEEE computer society.)

I’ve managed to import all my livejournal posts into WordPress, but it wasn’t easy – even with all the scripts and so on out there ([1], [2], [3], [4]). I ended up having to edit both the LJ export scripts, and the WP import scripts, which included having to go through that particular kind of pain which is CPAN on cygwin.  The pain was worth it though. When I get settled on the new server I’ll post relevant code.

Now all that’s left is to select a gallery program and migrate the photos without breaking any the 150 or so links….