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Now that I am getting involved with web hosting, I have been thinking a lot about backups.

Do you back up all your websites? You should!

Your web host might or might not do backups. If they do backups, you don’t know how often they do it. Also, their backups might get lost or be unusable for various reasons. You should not trust your host to do your backups — you should always do your own backups as well.
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Well, I did it, and it wasn’t too bad. (Except for this – see update below.) I moved my blog from www.patbdoyle.com to internetbusinessflash.com (without the “b”).

The hardest part was upgrading to the latest version of WordPress – I hadn’t done that in a while. Somehow I lost all my categories, but that’s ok. I had lost them a while ago when I tried upgrading before. I’ll just put them back later.

I moved from DreamHost to Hostgator too. Hostgator has Cpanel, which Dreamhost does not have. If they both would have had Cpanel, it would have been even easier.

So here is what I did to move the blog.
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