Amazingly enough and with virtually no hiccups I somehow managed to move the blog to a new server and upgrade to wordpress 2.6. The wordpress helpfiles at http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress covered the PHP admin, database advice etc. and is spot on, I know very little or nothing about databases but everything seems to have arrived unscathed, ( except one comment during the transfer, sorry Jon ). I like the new gravatar feature, and the layout of 2.6 is a big improvement on my 2.3 version. Mind you, after having said all of the above, I would not want to repeat the process any time soon, I realise the importance and value of the database 80 posts in and will make the effort to backup everything on a more regular basis.

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