Acting upon Pascal's tip, I'm now publishing straight to www.ibert.be and still hosting (for free) with Google. However, not without a fair amount of trouble. My favorite sysadmin Paul was there to help, but it still took some digging in help files and forums (long live consumer generated help) to get everything working perfectly.
So if you fancy using your own domain for a blogger-blog without forwarding in a frame, give it a try, it works. But keep in mind this little quote from the blogger help forum:
"In general, Blogger custom domains is a "power user" feature that requires some understanding of DNS that not all bloggers have. We are planning to add more wizards and automation to make the process of setting up custom domains easier and less painful and more accessible for the less technical user."
My next challenge is to migrate my gmail account to Google apps. There my question is: When migrating from gmail to google apps mail (which is basically the same), will I keep the labels I've been using?
2 comments:
I don't think you can migrate an existing Gmail account to a Google apps for your domain account, in the sense that you pump over your old mail.
What you can do, is set up mail forwarding to your GAFYD mail account as soon as possible for new mails coming in to your "old" Gmail account.
If you want to migrate your old mail, you'll have to jump trough all kinds of hoops by downloading all your old Gmail to your hard drive and uploading it again to your new Gmail account using all kinds of hackerish tools...
e.g.
http://christophe.vandeplas.com/2007/03/01/migration-google-apps-your-domain
http://dlinsin.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-apps-for-your-domain-migration.html
Pumping over is possible by "POP-ing" mails from Gmail to Google Apps. It takes some time because Google seems to limit the transfer rate, but it works.
Problem are my tags (labels). I've just spent hours introducing the "getting things done" time management concept through labels in Gmail.
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