Camiel

I followed @eivind@social.lol advice and moved my WordPress website (camiel.schoonens.nl) to Pikapod early this morning. I didn’t use any of the paid plugins available, as I expected this to be a relatively easy migration process. In the end, WordPress is a filesystem and a single database, and all site content is saved in the wp-content folder.

@camiel 20 euros per month for WordPress hosting sounds like a lot for a personal website. Are you using any particular plugins or storing a lot of media on your site?

If you consider micro.blog a suitable replacement you could also look into omg.lol’s own weblog-service(http://weblog.lol), or blog tools like Pika(https://pika.page/).

The ways to create and publish a website is vast and very few of them should cost as much as you’re currently using on WordPress hosting. For WordPress you can get a Pikapod for as low as $2 per month, hosted in the EU.

The entire process took me about 15 minutes once I figured out the steps to follow:

1. Download the wp-content folder from the old domain host via FTP.
2. Export the database as a SQL file.
3. Create a WordPress website on Pikapod.
4. Upload the wp-content folder via FTP.
5. Import the database on Pikapod by uploading the SQL file and overwriting the tables there.
6. Update the DNS records to point to Pikapod.

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Prices for my private WordPress hosting have gone up to over 250 euros per year. I need to consider a different setup, potentially with Micro.blog, as I find this a little too much for a side project that generates hardly any traffic.

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Now that my wife and I have selected our next vacation destination, it’s time to add a new category to this website: Costa Rica. I will use this category to blog about our preparations and experiences next summer in Costa Rica.

This is our second major family trip outside Europe, and we’re very excited about what we’ll gain from it. Our plan is to travel across the country for three weeks, visiting six different locations. I will share more details about our detailed plans soon.

I’m looking forward to this trip because it offers a mix of rainforests, volcanoes, and beaches that are perfect for family exploration and practicing my hobby of photography.

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Hi, my name is Camiel, and thank you for stopping by. I am a husband and proud father to three children, an Apple fanboy, a runner, a reader, and a photography lover. In my spare time, I’m always looking for a software or hardware side project to tinker with.

I call Oudewater, the Netherlands, home. I’ve been living here with my family since 2006.

Read more about me on my /about page.

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