The following is a review of the process in moving this website (www.indextown.com) together with another of my domain away from 1&1′s webhost.

1. 1&1 : Unlocked the domain from the 1&1 domains control panel (select the domain and click on Transfers -> Lock/Unlock).
2. 1&1 : Take note of the Authorization Code (select the domain and click on “Info”).
3. 1&1 : Made sure the email address under Contact -> Show Contact Details is reachable by test sending an email to this address. As long as this email address is reachable, there is NO need to disable private registration on 1&1 if you don’t want to. Note: some other registrars’ whois protection does not forward emails to the listed contact; in which case the only option is to disable the whois protection.
4. Arvixe : Signed up for the Personal Class hosting at Arvixe.com and specified that I am transferring a domain over. Provide the transfer authorization code obtained in Step 2 to Arvixe.
5. Arvixe : An authorization for transfer email will be initiated by Arvixe (eNom, Inc). This is sent to the contact information listed in Step 3, so a reachable email address in Step 3 is essential. Approved the transfer by following the instructions in the email.
6. 1&1 and Arvixe : I installed the latest version of WordPress and created an empty MySQL database on Arvixe. I then exported the WordPress MySQL database from 1&1 and imported into Arvixe. I then transferred the site-specific files (images, theme files etc) over.
7. 1&1 (this step is optional) : I changed the DNS away from 1&1 (e.g. ns57.1and1.com) and pointed it to those provided by Arvixe (e.g. ns1.bee.arvixe.com) (select the domain and click on DNS -> Edit DNS Settings). What this does is that while 1&1 still has my domain name, any request to the website would now go to the new Arvixe servers). It takes about 24 hours for this change to be propagated throughout the internet.
8. Five days later, the domain name was transferred successfully.
9. 1&1 : Finally, go to cancel.1and1.com to cancel the 1and1 hosting. If you don’t do this, 1and1 will continue charging you, and if your credit card doesn’t go through, they will send your account to collection.

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We are pleased to unveil the new 1&1 Home Package with more web space and unlimited traffic coming in September 2009. As a result, starting September 2009 your Home package will cost $6.99 per month*.

By listening to our customers, we’ve made this important change to allow us to offer the worry-free hosting environment that your site needs. Regardless of the amount of traffic your site generates you won’t have unexpected charges at the end of the month beyond your monthly fees. And with more web space, you can take your site even further.

As of September 1, 2009 you will be able to enjoy unlimited traffic and more web space. The new price for the Home package will be applied at the start of your package’s next billing cycle after September 1, 2009.

If you have any questions regarding the changes to the Home package, our support representatives will be happy to assist you.

I don’t need the additional bandwidth nor the storage space. Besides, the prices of hosting services are going DOWN, instead of UP. So I sent them a request politely to let me stay on my old plan, hoping they would listen to me and assist me in this matter. Here’s their reply:

Unfortunately, this is applicable to all Home packages that we had. There is no option to stay to the old $4.99 per month.

Looks like I am off shopping for a new web hosting service!

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• Security fixes.
• Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.
• Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
• The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
• Our completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking.

The upgrade went fairly smoothly, other than the warning messages about the database error with the AquaFluid theme. That went away when I upgraded the theme from 1.0 to the 1.5 version.

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A Google search function was added for performing search on

1. Indextown (this site),
2. Morningstar’s forums (Vanguard Diehards forum),
3. Www (the entire web).

I also created two content pages :

1. Investing Resources – which is a library of various online resources related to investing.
2. Popular Posts – which contains a list of the most popular posts with readers.

I hope these will be useful. As always, thanks for reading.

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