It's taken me about a week (not solid, but doing something every day) to migrate most of my sites from my two shared hosting accounts to my new dedicated hosting account. I ran across some security issues and had to figure out some mysql command line options. I also needed to figure out what needed to be changed in the .sql files which represented backups of my databases and which were the core config files for Serendipity, but other than that it was fairly painless. I've written an article about
migrating your Serendipity blog and posted it on some article sites and on my Open Source Depot site as well.
Things have calmed down a bit now (money wise), but September was still my best month ever with approx 50% more being made than any other previous month. Note that this is about a year into Project Adsense, so we'll see how it goes from here. I'm certainly not going to retire any time soon and with my new dedicated server costing me $111/month this isn' t paying back what I'm putting into it yet...but I will not quit.
I think my next step will be an article on shared vs dedicated hosting and the perils of each.
