In theory, it should have been a really easy move: install the Wordpress software on the new hosting service, export the database from the old one, re-import it in the new one and off we go…. but the new hosting service uses MySQL 4.1 which partly adds support for the unicode character set and that’s where we think our troubles lay. All sorts of peculiar characters appeared in the post which we could live with but then we couldn’t edit old posts and couldn’t add new ones either.

All being well, we’ve enough of the problems sorted out now to restart on the blogs on the new hosting service though.