My main goal with this blog is to truly help others learn and expand their knowledge of how to make money online. I could spend all day everyday blogging about the different programs out there and how to research key words and such … but if you get hung up on how to do basic internet type of things you will find yourself paralyzed.

Ask me how I know this? That’s right … I’ve been there. This past week has been one of those “learning experiences” for me. You know the kind of experience I’m talking about … the kind where you feel like everything is going wrong and this is too hard and you’re going to just give up and go get a real job … in other words I had a big pity party.

Well, after hating (I don’t like that word much – but it seems appropriate right now) my hosting company for the better part of the past year I finally decided to get over my fear of change and move all of my sites to HostGator (and I’m so happy about that decision).

I do however keep all of my domain names with Go Daddy because their customer interface is easy to use and they have very good customer service. They also consistently have the best deals on domain name registration fees. Because my email address is part of my domain name I’ve also always used them for my email service too. That is not necessary … just something I’ve always done.

I am very cautious about change so when I started my “move” I only moved one site as a trial run … this blog. My main email address is attached to this suzannefranco.com domain and I knew enough to go in and change my domain name servers to point to HostGator … and I did so.

As soon as I pointed my name servers I noticed that I wasn’t getting any email from this domain name. I thought I might have to wait for the name server change to propagate which can take 24-72 hours … so I waited. Well, once the change went through still no email. I called Go Daddy and they told me that I would have to contact Host Gator and provide them with Go Daddy’s MX Records. Provide what? Are you kidding me? How long will that take? Another 24-48 hours?! OMG! I even tried logging in to my webmail and no dice.

After contacting Host Gator and providing them with the MX Records I again waited 48 hours … no email and no access. Yikes! It turned out that everything had been done properly but sometimes these “things” just don’t go through the switch properly and need to be pushed through. Well, that did the trick and I have my email back up and running.

You know I love to hear from you in the comments so let me know if you’ve had a similar thing happen or you have questions or ideas that would help me or other readers please post them here for us. *SmiLes* Suzanne 

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