After attending the Canadian EXIT Realty Franchisee conference in Toronto the end of last month I am increasingly becoming involved in blogging as it was stressed there how important it is. When I first started blogging I toyed with blogger about a year ago once or twice on their domain and then started a serious Wordpress.com blog about 2 months ago on my own domain. The thing with Wordpress.com is they don't allow for much customization(plug-ins or themes) or even meta tags. I wondering if anybody has had any experience porting an existing blog from Wordpress.com to Wordpress.org. Also wondering what the best host(s) are for a Real Estate Wordpress.org blog. Thanks in advance!

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Exit Realty is a leading residential Real Estate company that sells Halifax Real Estate and is a part of Exit Realty Nova Scotia.

I've had great experiences with Rochen for hosting wordpress blogs. Did you know that LEC's come with blogs? You might want to look into that first. In my opinion, much better in the long run. I wish I would of migrated my stuff to an LEC ages ago.

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Steve Castaneda, Realtor

Specializing in Houston Real Estate. Feel free to browse Houston homes for sale or read about Real Estate Technology for agents.

This may be a stupid question but what is an LEC?

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Exit Realty is a leading residential Real Estate company that sells Halifax Real Estate and is a part of Exit Realty Nova Scotia.

A limited edition custom website - It's an REW site.

http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/lec/

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Nicholas May | IDX Coordinator | Real Estate Webmasters

I use Media Temple (mediatemple dot net) to host my Wordpress blogs. One hosting account allows me to host 99 domains/separate installs of WP blogs (no, I am not using them all!).

Their "gridserver" is a shared system, and seems to work quite well. I think it's $20/month, plus I pay an additional $20/month for a MySQL "burst container" -- which you don't need unless you have a fairly significant amount of traffic.

MT had some uptime issues in the beginning but seem to have turned the corner.

I've heard good things about BlueHost.

I'd avoid GoDaddy. Been there, done that.

If you have an REW site though, as mentioned, I'd give very serious consideration to their integrated blog platform.

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Jay Thompson

blog: PhoenixRealEstateGuy.com
BRAND NEW LEC4 site! http://thompsonsrealty.com Feedback welcome!

Bluehost is good

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Scottsdale Real Estate
Scottsdale Foreclosures
DC Ranch Real Estate

I use 1and1 never had a problem

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Greg Long | Keller Williams | Portland, Oregon
Portland Oregon Homes for Sale | Portland Real Estate | Portland Pearl District Condos

I've been with Dreamhost since 2003. They have an easy one-click install for Wordpress and upgrades. The worst part about having a self hosted Wordpress blog is doing the updates. It takes less than 30 seconds with Dreamhost and couldn't be much easier.

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Ryan A. Martin - Windermere Real Estate / Whatcom Inc.

Your Bellingham real estate professional specializing in the listing and sales of Bellingham condos. Also check out my Anacortes real estate website for information about Fidalgo Island and Anacortes, WA

LEC's are an awesome product and great bang for your buck. If you can, I would recommend you get one for your market and you will never look back.

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Justin Havre
Calgary Real Estate Associate

Calgary Real Estate
Calgary MLS
Calgary Real Estate Broker

I like 1and1.

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Jennifer Karlen & Jon Karlen
Kentucky Horse Farms - Louisville Kentucky Real Estate - Lexington Kentucky Real Estate
Serving the Louisville KY metropolitan area including Jefferson County - Prospect Shelby County - Shelbyville Oldham County - Goshen, La Grange and the Lexington KY metropolitan area including Fayette County - Lexington Woodford County - Versailles Scott County - Georgetown Jessamine County - Nicholasville