New domain name // Trouble I faced because of technical misunderstanding
Hello readers! I hope you all are well and is receiving this post in your feeds and emails. I am asking as there was huge mess because of domain issue and technical misunderstanding and I had to change old domain from booksteacupnreviews to new domain name – booksteacupreviews (removed ‘n’ from original).
A day before yesterday all of sudden my site went down and on checking I realised my old domain has expired. I had mini heart attack (not literally!) and I panicked (literally!).
You must be thinking how that happened, didn’t you get emails and all? I know I did receive the email but here is what went wrong – I misunderstood things related to domain.
As you all know I recently went for self-hosted WP and when I chose webhosting there was free domain in my plan but as I already had domain through WP.com I transferred things to already existing domain. With help of friend we did domain pointing from WP to webhosting site so I believed that’s all I need to do and so I let my WP plan along with domain expire. I didn’t know nor I read anywhere in articles when I was migrating my site that I should renew my domain from WP or should transfer it to webhosting’s registrar!!
At first I tried to renew domain but of course I couldn’t do it as it was totally expired, out of grace period and also I didn’t want to pay another extra penny so only option was claim that free domain I got with plan of webhosting that means get a new domain with something similar and very close to old domain and transfer all my files from old domain to new domain.
I didn’t have a clue how should I do that even though webhosting site sent series of steps to follow as I found that too much technical and complicated. Thankfully my husband’s friend is IT person and he had technician for his company who helped me in transferring things to new domain. After 2 days filled with panic and agitation finally I have my blog back.
Of course, all backlinks from all social media are gone but I will work on it slowly and as my friend Shalini said nobody look to far on blog or social media and pandemic taught us life is too short.
I’m ending my update or rather a rant here!
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Hi, I'm Yesha, an Indian book blogger. Avid and eclectic reader who loves to read with a cup of tea. Not born reader but I don't think I’m going to stop reading books in this life. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
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ashley @ socially awkward bookworm
Sounds like a nightmare! I’m glad you were able to get everything up and running again. 🙂
Books Teacup and Reviews
Thank you! I couldn’t have done without help. 😀
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Mischenko
Yesha, your posts aren’t popping up in the reader for me. I’ll refollow and see if it fixes it. I was wondering where you’ve been! Thank you ❤️
Books Teacup and Reviews
Yes, I noticed and it’s really a headache. Only readers following through emails seem to looking at my posts. Even I can’t see my recent posts in WP reader. I’m talking with Jetpack to see if they can help me. It looks like a common issue with self-hosted users. I don’t know how some self-hosted sites could have resolved it and I’m struggling with it. I hope I can find some solution or this is going to get huge impact on stats.
Mischenko
Okay, well, I’ll just be sure to check your posts everyday. That’s how I found the last three when I wondered why you hadn’t posted and wanted to be sure everything was okay. 👍 I’ll let you know if they start popping up for me. Good luck! I know it can be so frustrating because so many bloggers rely on the Reader. Hugs ❤️
Books Teacup and Reviews
Thank you, Mischenko, you’re best! ❤️
Lashaan Balasingam @ Bookidote
Wise words by Shalini! I’m glad you resolved the main issue here and that you’re able to get back to business when you feel like it, Yesha! 😀
Books Teacup and Reviews
Thank you, Lashaan! It was really tiring but I’m glad it’s working now.
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happytonic
Sorry you had to go through all these problems and all the stress they caused you!
Books Teacup and Reviews
It was nightmare! I’m so grateful for people who could help with technical things.
Susy's Cozy World
This sounds like a nightmare! I am glad that you are on top of it now!!
Books Teacup and Reviews
I couldn’t think about anything else until it was resolved. It’s such relief to get back things. Thank you! ❤
Rosepoint Publishing
sorry about all your problems with the domain. i did notice you went down, but then started getting your posts again and figured everything was ok. and yes, i’d have had the same problem–i’m not that technical savvy and stick like glue to my simple but free WP site the way it is.
Books Teacup and Reviews
Thank you, Virginia! It feels great to get things back and working well. It was totally unexpected. I’m also not tech savvy but I had someone who could help out and honestly I didn’t want pay wordpress for plans. it was too costly.
Shalini
I could get this easily. Now from the comment I could get to your URL
Books Teacup and Reviews
Thank you, Shalini! ❤
Rae Longest
What a mess–glad you cleared it up and restarted.
Books Teacup and Reviews
It was real headache. I hope this post appeared in your feed post or email. It seem to have some problem. Let me know if you are not seeing any future post. It would be a great help.
Books Teacup and Reviews
Yes, I feel relieved and finally could sleep properly. Thank you, Rae! ❤
WendyW
Good post to help anyone who is self hosted. I appreciate you posting this as it could happen to anyone. Thanks.
Books Teacup and Reviews
I hope I’m not alone who let that happen. It was really frustrating situation for someone who doesn’t have any technical knowledge.
Teri Polen
I didn’t understand half of what you said (I’m clueless about all of this), but I’m glad you got everything taken care of!
Books Teacup and Reviews
I didn’t understand technical things until I went self-hosted. Thank you, Teri! Hopefully I haven’t lost any followers because of domain change and down site.
Shalini
Great post Yesha. Thanks for the shoutout, even though I was of no real help 🤷🏻♀️🙈
Books Teacup and Reviews
You talked when I needed and it’s huge help. ❤