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Originally Posted by Hampshire Girl  I'm planning to build a successful business, not planning to fail which was a little harsh. Contingency planning and risk assessment is all part of the process when setting up a business. Thinking through how I'd retain Web 2.0 information should I want to switch provider in the future is pretty sensible as you don't know what's round the corner - I might decide to completely change business models in a few years, SBI may disappear or be superceded by another company.....it's all about weighing up the pros and cons which is the stage I'm at before putting all my time and passion into setting up my site. "She that fails to plan plans to fail"  |
Well, ya gotta understand something. Curtis and Rebecca are like the SBI go-to peeps around here. I've never seen people recommend something like those two recommend SBI. If I didn't know any better, I'd swear they are getting kickbacks from Mr. Envoy or something.
(But, that's good to know because if you have a question about SBI, those are the two I most look forward to hearing from when it comes to that.) But, at the end of the day, they may be a little *too* into the SBI thing.
Don't get me wrong, I'd recommend SBI to anyone. I sort of see it more as a course in business building than I do a long-term commitment, though. It's great to build a site or two through them because there's a whole arse-load of knowledge to glean just from reading the action guide and the many MANY resources and articles they have on the site.
Fuctionally, however, wordpress outdoes SBI every single time. If wordpress and SBI were basketball teams and they were playing in the content management championship, the score would be like 100 to 5 in favor of wordpress.
I just looked in my SBI account to see if there is any quick and dirty site-back up options, and I couldn't find anything. There's loads of functions for uploading and bringing information IN to SBI, but I don't see anything that will let you export your content/files OUT of SBI.
In other words, should you choose to switch over at some point, you're going to be doing a lot of copy/pasting and reuploading of your stuff. Hell, I don't even see a place to access the root html directory (the one where all your files on the website are stored).
What I might suggest you do is to go create a free wordpress site and, while you are creating your SBI site, make a copy of it onto the free wordpress site as you go along. That way, when you go, you can simply export your site from the free wordpress site and then reupload it to your new site when you get a new host.