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How to Host a Screaming Fast Site for $0.03/Month

I had an idea. That's always how it starts. Before I know it, I've purchased the domain name and I'm futzing around with some HTML but where am I going to host it and how much is this going to end up costing me?

That's where I was when I came up with#DonateMyFee. "This is a site that is only going to cost me money", I thought to myself (the whole point is for people to donate money rather than paying me). I really didn't want to start shelling out big (or small) bucks on hosting.

Long story short, here is the recipe for a screaming fast website on a low budget:

Import Old Blogger Content into WordPress

Recently I've been migrating my old Blogger content to WordPress. I've been considering this ever since Blogger announced it's new layout / format which required hosting the blog on their servers. Finally I found the energy to tackle the beast but quickly hit my first obstacle- how to import the old Blogger posts.

If you haven't already, you must be using New Blogger and a Google Account on Blogger. If you are still using Old Blogger, the importer will not work. - http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content

Importing from my old Atom or RSS feeds didn't work.

Importing from a Blogger export file didn't work either.

Finally I found a solution which worked for the most part.