Just Another Pixel is Moving!

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I know, I’ve said before that I want to move this blog, Just Another Pixel, to Wordpress like last year then I changed my mind after a few weeks. This time, though, I’m serious.

The only thing that really kept me from moving was this blog’s PR. It’s now back to PR4 (yeyy!) and that means a lot more opportunities and traffic may come my way here. And when I switch to Wordpress, I risk losing that PR.

I know, there’s a way to keep my ranking, but I guess it’s the paranoid in me that’s holding me back. I’ve got a pretty good managed hosting from a very generous person so there’s really no need to worry about expenses and downtimes. I know they have secure servers and colocation.

You might be wondering what triggered this idea to come up again now. Well, a few hours ago, this blog was down for a couple of hours. It wasn’t really because of Blogger, but my domain registrar Moniker.

The thing is, I’ve got 14 domains on Moniker, but only those blogs on Blogger were down. The rest of my blogs on Wordpress were accessible. Weird, I know, but it may be some kind of caching self-hosted Wordpress blogs do that keeps them on even when the domain registrar/host is down.

So, yes, this blog will be migrating to Wordpress and moving to my other web hosting. I can’t risk losing all the traffic and not being able to update this blog when that happens again.

Okay, I may be a li’l over-reacting, especially because this is the first time I experienced this with Moniker in my 3 years with them. But, I still prefer to have full control over my server. So, yes, expect me to move in the next month or so. :)