I know, I know, I'm not stupid, I know a blog isn't meant to be abandoned like that.

I let it down for reasons I'll explain later when I'll post again.

Now today I just want to speak about why I transfered my blog from WordPress to Drupal and how.

I bought the domain on october 2007 in order to install WordPress and MediaWiki and start using them in collaboration to see and show that money can be better made by using a blog and a wiki working together.
In fact I went as far as installing WordPress, then I blogged a little, I learned about plugins, and installed a few.

After a while I got bored about the whole thing and let it down.

But one day in may suddenly I received a lot of traffic from one of my post from last december.. and immediatly my web hosting company contacted me to say that they disabled the site because it was using too much resources from the web server.

With 10 000 unique visitors, I didn't feel it was that much, so I decided to make the move back to Drupal because I know that Drupal can handle it without a problem.

I'm sure WordPress can handle it as well, but obviously one of the plug ins was bypassing the cache system and was causing this resources overload. At least in Drupal I know that when I activate the cache it's ok and I didn't want to track down which WordPress plugins was responsible.

I decided to go back to drupal, but I wanted to keep the exact urls I had with wordpress in order not to lose any backlinks I generated in the past.

With Drupal Pathauto module I was able to exactly do what I wanted for the blog posts, and exactly the same for the categories, and exactly the same for the tags. I just love Drupal!

I wanted a first hand experience with WordPress and MediaWiki, I did get one with WordPress, not with MediaWiki, well maybe another time.

Drupal is good, I stand by it, it's really the most important thing for me on the internet, it helped me so much in the last several years. Thank you, I'll never leave you again Drupal! :-)

Well in fact I try from time to time to set up domains with other scripts. Right now I'm creating 2 web directories with a directory script, but I know I could have achieve the same thing and then better with Drupal, but it's good to know other things too, I also continue to set up sites with Drupal regularly.

If you want to make the move from WordPress to Drupal for a good reason, you can ask me, I did it without problem, now look at it, I still have my adsense ads, I still have my urls and the meta tags, I can still blog, I didn't yet put a lot of modules like I had on WordPress, but who cares?

Byebye, I'll write again later to explain a few things about the blog stop and all.. But I'm sure you can guess what it is..