Finally my own domain… ANIMETRIC.NET!

ANIMETRIC.NET at last!

Goodbye Blogspot, we had a good run from 2009 to 2015. I sold my domains animetric.com and animetric.net years ago when I got bored with anime and thought I didn’t want anything to do with the internet anymore. But I realized I will always be online and so I had no choice but to restart on Blogspot. So http://animetric.blogspot.com was born.

Animetric and Fujifilm X-A2I’ve been keeping tabs on my domains since because hey — saying animetric.com and/or animetric.net is just so much cooler than saying animetric.blogspot.com when I’m asked for my url. Animetric.com seems to be on auto-renew for life (even if the dude who bought it hasn’t updated since 2012) and when I tried to take back Animetric.net, the entity who got it tried to charge me several hundred dollars for it. So I waited.

Finally the day came when Animetric.net was FREE. I grabbed it immediately and facilitated migrating all of my Blogspot content to a self-hosted WordPress platform.

And so starting today, my blog Animetric’s World will be at http://www.animetric.net, where it should have been from the start.

I can’t even begin to tell you how scary this move is for me because I actually have very good SEO and traffic at Blogspot. I have posts whichΒ have reached 6 digits in terms of views. What will happen now? What if my stats plummet? What if my SEO here at WordPress doesn’t reach its previous levels? What if I go over the bandwidth limit? There are so many things to consider but I took the plunge despite all my worries and fears.

Anyway like they say, with great risks come great rewards. I’m keeping my fingers crossed and I’m still dreaming of the day I can get back Animetric.com.

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14 Comments

  • Reply Sai Montes March 16, 2016 at 10:46 pm

    I dropped by as soon as I saw your post about your new blog. Congrats Rowena! Cheers for new beginnings!

    • Reply animetric March 18, 2016 at 6:46 pm

      Thanks Sai! <3

  • Reply Marianne Torres March 16, 2016 at 11:33 pm

    Congratulations Ms Ro! Now this is home πŸ™‚

    • Reply animetric March 18, 2016 at 6:47 pm

      Yes at long last πŸ˜€

  • Reply Yan March 18, 2016 at 3:38 am

    Yayy! I was actually wondering why for someone w/ high online influence, you’re not self hosted yet hehe. Congrats on the move! πŸ˜€

    • Reply animetric March 18, 2016 at 6:47 pm

      Thank you! I made the mistake of selling my domains several years ago and I didn’t want a name change lol. πŸ˜€

  • Reply Russelle anne roque March 28, 2016 at 3:34 am

    Yayy!! Congrats! I use animetric.me whenever I go to your blog using a new device, and I thought you’re self hosted already. Haha kaloka, i never realized it’s routing me to blogspot.com

    • Reply animetric May 12, 2016 at 11:41 am

      Used a forwarding domain before πŸ˜€

  • Reply Johna May 12, 2016 at 10:01 am

    Hi animetric, just curious whats the brand & model of your camera? Your pictures are really good! Hope you’ll let me know. hihi thank you!

    • Reply animetric May 12, 2016 at 11:42 am

      Thanks! I used to use a Sony NEX-5N, I switched to the Fujifilm X-A2 earlier this year πŸ™‚

      • Reply Johna May 13, 2016 at 4:20 pm

        thanks for the info. πŸ™‚ im planning to buy a new camera in the near future πŸ™‚

      • Reply Johna May 13, 2016 at 5:00 pm

        If you don’t mind, why suddenly switch to Fujifilm? Just getting insights in case I buy camera too. πŸ™‚
        Thanks!

  • Reply Wena May 12, 2016 at 4:23 pm

    Congratulations on your new home. Yay for self-hosted WordPress site!

    • Reply animetric May 13, 2016 at 12:15 am

      Thank you πŸ˜€

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