My blog has been creating problems for my wonderful and patient webhost, Orcsweb, for quite some time. After many different attempts to fix the problem, I came to the conclusion that the amount of traffic I get creates havoc with the memory because of xml log files being opened and closed in memory so many times. I have been "quarantined" to a separate server for a long time because my blog devours CPU cycles.

Because I have been using Graffiti for my book site (www.learnentityframework.com), I thought I would just move to Graffiti so I wouldn't have to learn a new tool. It might have gone more smoothly if I didn't have over 4000 blog posts to migrate. Although Graffiti supports migrating from dasBlog, I had to do it in little chunks at a time. But after a lot of experimentation, I came up with a pattern for migrating the posts and retaining the categories. It involved a lot of work in SQL server and a lot of work in FTP, but I have finally  moved everything over.

I still have more work to do on how the new blog looks, but I can work on that over time.

I just have one more big chore to do (I have asked Orcsweb to do that for me) and then I will be switching over to the new blog.

I also need to figure out how to duplicate the content filters that I use on my blog currently, but that's not a showstopper for me.

Thanks to the dasBlog301 plug-in by Omar Shahine, links to my old posts will continue to work.

The feed will work also but I have to figure out fixing up the category feeds as well.

I've invested an insane number of hours in this migration over the past month, so I sure hope that it will fix the problems on the server. I hadn't anticipated the amount of effort this would take and might have tried out Sueetie, just for fun, instead. But now that I have spent this much time, I just can't afford to do it again.

dasBlog has served me incredibly well for 5 years (and so many others as well) and I am grateful to Clemens, Scott, Omar, Tom and many others who have put so much work into it.