So I have been playing around with the idea of moving my blog from wordpress.com to my own hosted site. I started reading up on what needs to be done in order to move from my wordpress.com address to a different site and it turns out it is really hard with large sites. So I decided to take the step and move to http://www.scottwarren.info/ . I still have to set everything up but I thought that I should start letting people know because I’m planning on not updating this blog after today (assuming I get access to my webpage before tomorrow afternoon).

I had a lot of reasons for doing this. The first was Google Analytics. I really like Google Analytics because it gives you a much more detailed view of you site than the integrated wordpress stats plug in. By using my own site I can modify the template for this site so I can actually use that. I also want to have more control over the way things are added to my site. It’s really nice to be able to add a custom script or plug-in to perform actions that WordPress just doesn’t support. I also have had problems getting changes uploaded to a binary file without changing the files path everywhere on the site.

The only downside to moving is that I have to pay for everything now and I really hope I don’t go over on my bandwidth use age. I should have all the problems ironed out this weekend.