Tech entrepreneurial questions? Ask TVC!

This semester, I’m doing a entrepreneurial course as a finale to my 5 years undergrad at uni. The course is run by Matt Barrie (CEO, Freelancer.com) and Bill Bartee (Managing Partner, Southern Cross Ventures).

A feature of this course is that it is heavily industry-focused, and every week, we have successful real-world entrepreneurs (not just a lecturer) as guest speakers to share their experience and expertise.

Ask TVC is a site our group have launched to share this exclusive opportunity with the world. If you are running a business, or thinking about getting into the game, then fire your questions away. We’ll gather the top rated questions for each speaker and we’ll post the answers after the lecture.

The answers to Tjoos.com (Kim Chen and Bart Jallema) questions are now posted, and we still have Viocorp (Ian Gardiner), Omnisio (now YouTube; Ryan Junee), Atlassian (Mike Cannon-Brookes), and many more to come!

So check us out at asktvc.nfshost.com and let us know what you think.

The story behind my website’s new look

You might have noticed that my blog has a new theme! It’s wonderful that with WordPress, changing to a new theme only takes a few mouse clicks.

However, there was a bit of drama behind why I made the change – unfortunate, but a valuable experience indeed. My website was hacked.

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Mini-Project: Moving a WordPress.com blog to own servers

It’s been about a month since I’ve migrated my blog from a hosted service at WordPress.com to hosting my WordPress blog on my own servers. So far, everything is doing quite alright especially the benefits of self hosting WordPress which gives me total control over my contents and my plugins.

So this is intended to be a guide plus some thoughts and recommendations for anyone who wants to move their blog from WordPress.com over to their own web host.

Moving from WordPress.com has advantages over moving from another service – pretty much all of your content can be migrated over without any loss of information. This includes posts, pages, categories, tags and even users if you have more than one. It’s also another reason why it is so easy to make the switch.

Why host your own WordPress?

For a while, my blog was hosted on WordPress.com. It was great – it was easy to set up, easy to use (especially with Live Writer), always available and best of all, it was all free.

But then, after a while there are some limitations that start to show up once you’ve used WordPress.com for a while. For a start, the URL that comes with your blog is in the form of http://<blog name>.wordpress.com/, and you can’t really change this your http://<blog name>.com or anything shorter. Well you could, but you’d have to pay USD$10 a year just so that you can use your own domain name and point it at your WordPress.com blog. Registering the actual domain name costs extra, of course.

Apart from the domain name, all of the WordPress.com feature upgrades turns out to be included when you host your own WordPress blog. This includes uploading videos, customising the CSS look and feel, none of their ads and the option to put your own ads in, unlimited users and as much disk space as your hosting provider gives you. If you’re already reaching or exceeding the free limits of WordPress.com, then why not change over?

There is actually a community of people whom self host the free and open source WordPress blog engine, which can be sourced from http://www.wordpress.org/.

Intended audience

This is a recount of the steps I took in migrating my blog. If you want to use this as a guide to do the same, then you would need prior knowledge or experience in setting up a basic web site.

The Procedure

The basic procedure involves exporting the contents of the blog posts from the old wordpress blog, and then importing it into the new self hosted WordPress installation. Although, there are some other things can be done to make it even more painless.

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Move to edmundtse.com – success!

Good news, my blog has a new home at edmundtse.com!

I’ve spent the past day and a bit moving my blog from being hosted at wordpress.com to my own domain. As at now, my blog has now been moved over to its new home, so this post will be the last one for this blog.

So if you want to subscribe to my blog, then please use its new home, because I foresee that this one won’t be updated any more. I wish that wordpress.com had a function that lets me divert existing visitors using HTTP 301.

Thank you for your support!

edmundtse.com

Previously I registered edmundtse.com, and hosted it under Office Live. But since then, blogging using WordPress has proven to be much better suited to my needs. So, very soon, we can expect http://www.edmundtse.com/ to be up and running for my blog!