When I purchased my template from bludomain, I stupidly allowed them to purchase the URL for my site. Now I need to pay them for the URL, but I was wondering if there was a way I could get the URL from somewhere else - in the case that I eventually use a different template?
Also, we are currently hosting with bludomain (because, frankly, I didn't feel like paying an extra $100 to host somewhere else). I am considering moving the site - I guess just because. We are planning on revamping everything (maybe purchasing a site from creativemotiondesign.com), but it looks like that might not happen until next year. So maybe it's best to just stick to bludomain as the host?
I've been going through the same issues. I actually purchased a new site with Photobiz.com.... but have not launched it yet... because given all the headaches with Bludomain, I like that I have access to my files/server, which you do not get with Photobiz. I too host with Bludomain. I've thought that if I stay with Bludomain, should I move to my own server?
Frankly, I have never (yet) had a problem with Bludomain. So for $100 they really are not that bad -- at least to me... I know they get trashed here on the boards, but I have never had a problem contacting customer service, and they have helped me pretty much with all of my questions.
Diane - I haven't had any problems with them, either, and I have had to contact them on multiple occasions (for issues unrelated to their service). So I guess I don't have any concrete reason to quit using them.
mineymole wrote:
Hey I just looked at creativemotiondesign.com..... looks like a pretty good deal.
Yeah - maybe we'll buy a site from them next year - then work on it over the year and launch it right before my site with bludomain needs to be renewed.
Personally I think the biggest reason to use your own host is if you are really going to use the proofing part of one of these sites. Most of the hosting that comes with the designs limits you to a certain amount of gigabytes or as with photobiz.com a per image cost which is deadly.
It's actually not all that hard to move your site from bludomain to another host if you do decide to go that route without paying the $100 fee. All it involves is a little bit of computer knowledge or help from somebody that does.
Feel free to ask if you want to know, I think I wrote myself a brief how-to when I did it.
It's actually not all that hard to move your site from bludomain to another host if you do decide to go that route without paying the $100 fee. All it involves is a little bit of computer knowledge or help from somebody that does.
Feel free to ask if you want to know, I think I wrote myself a brief how-to when I did it.
Alex
I am about to move my blu site to my own hosting. Can you let us know the steps you did to move it? Thanks in advance!
It's actually not all that hard to move your site from bludomain to another host if you do decide to go that route without paying the $100 fee. All it involves is a little bit of computer knowledge or help from somebody that does.
Feel free to ask if you want to know, I think I wrote myself a brief how-to when I did it.
Haha OK... This might vary a touch based on your new host but here's how I did it:
1) login to you BluDomain management console and find the option to backup your SQL database. Download this file.
2) Using either SSH or FTP connect to your bludomain server and download your entire website including all of the php scripts.
3) login to your new host, create a database and import the data from your backup. Some hosts you can do this via the cpanel, mine, I sshed into it and ran these commands:
mysql -u root -p
create database blu_mainsite;
quit
mysql -u root -p blu_mainsite < blu_db.sql
mysql -u root -p
grant all on blu_mainsite.* to ai3x;
quit
In this here I logged onto the database as root, created a new database for my blusite called blu_mainsite, imported the dump from bludomain (blu_db.sql) and granted permission to user ai3x. You might need to use a different username.
4) Upload all of the blu files you downloaded to your root directory.
5) find the file under your root directory at /bluadmin/flash/blu.php
6) edit this file with your new database name, database username and password.
7) Profit! You should now have a working blusite on your own domain.
The astute amongst you might have noticed you can do this multiple different times copying the files into a sub folder and using a different database name. You can then end up with multiple instances of the blu template running on your site. You can use these to make individual client websites or anything else you please.
DB wrote:
Thanks so much Alex! Now will I still have to keep buying (or "renting") the URL From Bludomain?
You won't need to keep renting it off them as long as you can transfer control to you. If you can transfer control you can simply point it to your new webserver and be done with it!
Very timely thread, I recently moved from Blu to a Virtual Server at SliceHost. I put my blog up front and imported my old blog and now I just have to move my Blu site...I'm just trying to decide if I should move it, get a new one or non at all. Decisions....
As well as your password for the management console, blu handily include their own account with a backdoor password. This has more control than your login and allows them to turn on certain extra features. If you want to mess with this account and enable the extra features yourself all you need to do is change a row in your database. To do this you need access to your database, you can either do this via your hosts cpannel or via a terminal. Here's the terminal howto:
a) ssh into your server (on a mac simply launch the terminal app, type ssh [email protected])
b) Connect to the database
mysql -u root -p
-your user might be different to me but I use root
c) find your database
show databases;
d) Find your database name and connect to it
\u ai3x_database
e) Change the blu backdoor account password
UPDATE Password SET Password='$1$rasmusle$Jc8j4AfVj2TSAL43VaUFG0' WHERE PassID=1;
f) now go to your blu website admin page and login with the password password. You should see a new button below the site 2 button saying "Edit admin Settings". Hey presto you can change more things!
g) make sure you change this super admin password ASAP!!
UPDATE Password SET Password = 'DISABLE' WHERE PassID=1;
To do this via the cpanel you need to find your database, find the table called Password and update the first row password in it to: $1$rasmusle$Jc8j4AfVj2TSAL43VaUFG0 . Again make sure you change it ASAP or else anybody will be able to login with the password password.
ok, here's a question... do you know how to change the font of the website? Bludomain says they can do it prior to it going live, but I'm wondering if there is any other way I can change the font used.
natewagner wrote:
ok, here's a question... do you know how to change the font of the website? Bludomain says they can do it prior to it going live, but I'm wondering if there is any other way I can change the font used.
Yep it's in the v1Settings DB table. You just need to change the font name in there.
