by Corvidaerex » Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:52 am
Blogger is a great service; I've used it pretty much since the beginning for various sites. But it's a free thing, and at various times it has simply broken down. It was doing this five, six years ago, too.<br><br>Bandwidth issues and reliability were greatly improved when Google bought Blogger. But since then, many millions more blogs have launched.<br><br>If you have a buddy of some kind at Google/Blogger -- a reader, say -- then you can sometimes appeal to them. Atrios has done this many times. ("Hi blogger, please help me get the front page rebuilt," etc.)<br><br>But that would've happened by now ... so, make the big move like this: Register with a solid ISP (Kevin at Cryptogon recommends one) and make sure it has Movable Type. And tech support to make the transfer! Blogger archives can be imported pretty easily into MT, along with style templates and such.<br><br>You can & should keep the blogger RI alive, and when it is finally possible just make a top post that says you've moved. Plenty of high-traffic bloggers have done this, and their old blogspot sites remain with a link to the new one.<br><br>With your incoming links & readership, it shouldn't take long for Google to index your entire new site and for loyal readers to update your link.<br><br>Good luck Jeff. It is a pain in the ass, but it seems to go with the territory when you've got a little-known site that develops a big audience. I don't know if there's anything hinky about it -- say, if Google/Blogger has some secret policy to run off the high traffic sites that are sucking lots of bandwidth -- but the end result is you need a site you control.<br><br>The good news is that it costs about $30 a month for a top-notch ISP these days -- usually with tech-support blogging software and a host of other features included. <p></p><i></i>
