Over the weekend I decided it was time to move aBlog to its own domain - how grown up! Truth be told, I was a little concerned that this would be a massive headache; moving a blogger domain requires access to the DNS settings on your domain and in my experience the cheap web hosters I've used before don't give you that.
So I decided to go with the Google / Blogger approved process and I have to say that Google hit the ball out of the park. The domain registration was cheap and easy (facilitated by eNom) using my Google Checkout account. Best of all the new domain came wrapped in a nice Google Apps sheep skin coat. This means that not only did I get a great Google powered UI for managing the domain (my number one gripe with the likes of streamline.net), and of course access to all the DNS settings I could need, but I got the added bonus of up to 100 4GB gmail accounts and access to hosted versions of Calendar, Google Docs etc.
Within a few minutes, this Blog was at it's new address, as was Pippa's, and as a bonus we both had shiny gawley.org email addresses.
I'm a big fan of google products (and yes, I know I'm biased) but this was one of the best user experiences I've had in years on a process I expected to be a clinky nightmare. Simple cheap and filled with nice surprises.
I hope you like aBlog's new home (and it's slightly cleaner look - I took the opportunity to clear out a few gadgets and tidy up the formatting). Pippa and I are now using our gawley.org emails and I'll blog some more about our exoriences with Google Apps in the future.
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