A Note from the Author: The RSS Diary is Closed

rssdiary.marketingstudies.net was built to help marketers get the most from RSS. However, much has changed since the site was last updated in 2007 - and it's pretty fair to say that it's now completely outdated.

Since I've moved on to other interests in internet marketing years ago, the site is now officially closed, and only remains online as an archive of a part of internet marketing's past. This is how we used to see RSS between 2004 - 2007. We don't, anymore, but there's no harm in having a small part of our past available online.

With that, I'm also making the e-book that started all of this, Unleas the Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS, available for free download.

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MarketingStudies.net Back Online and Comments Working Again

[26.02.2007 l Rok Hrastnik]

After a rather painful week, MarketingStudies.net is back with its full functionality, including comments.

As already noted, we started the move to a new hosting provider about a week ago, when the comments on this blog were again turned off by the old hosting provider without notice.

The move went relatively smoothly, thanks to the great MovableType architecture and excellent cooperation from both the old and the new hosting providers. Plus, we're now running on MovableType 3.3, which really is light years ahead from the old 2.x versions.

The only thing that really went wrong with the move were the sub-domains. Everything else was smooth.

Quick Steps for Changing Your Hosting Provider and Installing a New MovableType Version

If you're thinking of doing the same, here are the quick steps:

a) Sign-up for your new hosting package and contact your new hosting provider. Contact them in person and explain to them what you're doing and that you might need a little more assistance from them to finalize the transfer.

b) Make a replica of all of your files from the old hosting provider and upload the exact folder structure with all the files to the new hosting provider.

c) Export the SQL database with your MovableType data, directly from the SQL interface. You want a full copy of your database with practically everything.

d) Install your current MovableType version on the new server. Do not just copy the files from the old MovableType installation, rather do the installation again on the new server.

e) Import your old SQL database from the old server into the new SQL database on the new server. Make sure you import it into the new database created by MovableType.

You should now have all of the data and settings from MovableType on the old server in MovableType on the new server.

f) Log-in to MovableType on the new server. You will probably need to modify the server paths for storing files, so open the settings for each blog and change the server paths if needed.

g) Rebuild your files on the new server.

h) Install a new MovableType version on top of the current one, of course on the new server.

i) Once everything is working, ask your domain host to point your domains to your new server IPs.

This is it. Good luck!

Unleash the Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS

Avtor: Rok Hrastnik

Rok Hrastnik is an experienced international internet marketer and manager in Central & Eastern Europe, lead by the conviction that marketers should first be driven by measurable business outcomes: sales and profits.

He is currently serving as the International Internet Director at Studio Moderna, the leading CEE direct response TV & multi-channel retailer, managing their internet operations across 22 countries (Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Turkey, Romania, the Baltics and others).

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