Change of Address…
Dear Reader,
Here’s the thing: My friend Hans is a technology guy, he runs an internet software company. He was a big part of the reason why I started to blog in the first place. He also helps me a lot with the other websites that I publish, by suggesting new methods and new software, even quite often telling me the way I am doing it can be improved in so-and-so manner.
So I started Real Life in Paradise without checking exactly how to do it, as is my way. I don’t ask directions for most things, I just assume that I can figure it out. So I jumped on Blog.com, because I saw other bloggers from Mexico doing it. They offer very sufficient services, but somewhat limit what you can actually do with the blog. When I told Hans this, he mentioned that I might want to think about getting my own domain and hosting the blog on there, because I would have more control and be able to customize the blog more.
I am very hard-headed sometimes, I told him that blog.com would work just fine for me. He outlined exactly what problems I was going to come up against with blog.com and I dismissed his suggestions. Everything was going to be just fine.
Then I started to realize that Hans was right. I couldn’t add Google Analytics to the site, uploads were slow, sometimes posting a comment was difficult and I got emails from people who just gave up. Then the statistics program on Blog.com started failing, it erased all my stats, etc…
I decided to look into the idea of moving the blog to my own domain. I searched for domains that I liked and found ‘lifeinplaya.com’. Listening to the little voice of Hans in my head saying “If you search for a domain that you like, you have to buy it”, I purchased it. This is due to a new technique people are using to make money on the internet, industrious people on the internet buy a list of recently searched for domains from the popular domain providers and then buy the recently searched domains. Many domain providers allow you to hold a domain for a short period of time without paying for it. When you search for a domain and then go back the next day to buy it, somebody has already purchased your domain, but they will offer to sell it to you for slightly more than what they paid for it. Pretty tricky.
Anyway, back to the point, I am now moving the “Real Life In Paradise” blog to “Life In Playa”, I hope it doesn’t cause anyone too much hassle. Thanks for reading and I hope I will have more time to blog in the future.
Solomon
