As most of you know or have guessed by now, I am hosting this personal blog at wordpress.com

They have been great so far but the javascript limitation they impose on their users has finally gotten the best of me and I plan to host the wordpress install myself.

Only problem is that all the links to this website use the wordpress.com address.

Now that they have allowed to map your domain to your account I figured I would just point midspot.com to the site and wait a month or two for everyone to adjust their links and then move behind the scenes with no controversy.

Turns out in order to map your domain to your wordpress.com account (URL) you need to adjust the name servers for your domain which is unacceptable for a few reasons because A:) it will screw up my email at my midspot.com domain and B:) it will also wreck all of the subdomains I have of midspot.com (example.midspot.com).

Anyone have any ideas or is there something I missed? I really have to move this blog once again and loose all the links…

One solution is to import all the stuff into my own install and then leave everything here as well and just use my new install going forward, but it makes things on my end kinda screwy behind the scenes and I’m not sure how long wordpress.com will leave up a blog they think is “in-active”.

Advice?

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