please help with choosing

[savantcreative]

Hi. My hosting company was offering a very cheap deal on installing Movable Type for me on my website domain. I started a blog about a month ago but find MT very buggy and not user friendly. If I switch over to Serendipity, will I just need to go with hosting that includes php mySQL? Is it easy to import my old blog?
Thanks so much for your help.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Yes, Serendipity can be installed on usually any host that offers you PHP and MySQL. You should try to find a host that gives you PHP5 and MySQL 4 at least, and who gives you around 16MB of memory limit. s9y can work with 8MB (whichi s often the default), but the more plugins you want to use, the more memory s9y requires.

s9y comes with a moveable type importer. It can import users, categories and entries, so you should get along with that. It cannot import specific things like templates or plugins, though.

Regards,
Garvin