MBT
went down yesterday for 24 hours because we have made some major
improvements to how this blog will operate in future. I would like to
thank everyone for their consistent feedback and for bearing with us
during this maintenance. We are in no way interested in upgrading it to Wordpress or any other platform.
This blog will remain hosted at Blogger and all its posts, image data
and feeds will keep on operating from Blogger.com servers. I personally
took this huge risk of transferring MybloggerTricks.com domain from its
previous registrar to HostGator
because I wanted to add some new features to this little blog.
Readership is increasing and I am not able as an individual to do
justice with dozens of queries posted everyday. We are looking forward
to build an active, lively and useful community for newbie bloggers. In
order to bring more exciting ways of improving the standard of blogspot
blogs we needed extra storage space and sub domains. All this is
possible with an extra premium space where we can save our resources and
introduce new online tools. In order to make this possible we transferred our domain to Hostgator and purchased an extra space.What Do We Mean by Migrating To Hostgator?
Blogger
provides free hosting service. You don't need to pay for uploading your
posts and images. Everything is free for every user except a custom
domain and extra space for storing your external files like JavaScript,
Flash, HTML pages etc. A normal Google blog has the following similar
URL:
xyz.blogspot.com
When you buy a custom domain like .com or .net. It gets branded with a more professional look like this,
xyz.com or xyz.net or xyz.org
Now that was just a domain purchase
but what if you are looking to open a forum or a service page for your
blog? You need subdomains for that, which means you need web hosting for
those new pages. Following URLs are examples of sub domains,
services.xyz.comforum.xyz.comportfolio.xyz.com
We
needed a reliable web host which could provide us with domain hosting
as well as web hosting. I researched deeply which web host to choose.
Every hosting company was offering something new and exciting but I was
looking for a webhost with great customer service. Finally we chose
Hostgator due to their excellent developed servers, online reputation
and extremely friendly customer service. I can't thank enough the
technical support provided by Hostgator's live chat service. Whether it
was about DNS settings
or understanding how to use the Cpanel, the agents were extremely
helpful. They chatted with me for hours during the transfer and helped
me with everything I needed. All this technical help was offered for
free. In fact I learnt a lot from these conversations and can now
confidently guide you all with every technical detail that you may need
to take your simple Blogger blog to the next level.
Our Commitment
I
never called this blog mine and this is one reason I mostly avoid
saying "I" and rather prefer saying "We". This blog is running thanks to
kind readers like you. If there is anything that gives me more
happiness then it is "Helping you with your problems". We have been
asked several times that why don't we upgrade this Blog to Wordpress. My
answer always remained simple. "Blogger provides us with everything we
need then why transfer and waste money?" Blogger has highly secured
servers with 24 hours run time, free unlimited image storage and video
storage capacity. Yes Wordpress is very good because there are thousands
of developers producing something new each day and I respect that. So
far for this blogging level, Blogger has provided us with all facilities
and we will keep on educating newbie bloggers with new exciting
tutorials, widgets, templates and resources as long as we can. We wont
abandon you by making a migration to a different platform. We will
always work hard and serve you to the best of our potential. In my
coming posts, my main focus will be discussing the technical details of
this network expansion. Thanks for turning this simple blog into a great
community. Peace and blessings pals! :)