I figured since I was finally going to have some proper ColdFusion hosting, I might as well check out the latest and greatest from our various CFML blogging engines. I'd used BlogCFC in the past, so this time I decided to give Mango a test drive. So far, I'm really liking it. Mango has an integrated database setup and the option to import from WordPress exports and BlogCFC. It's apparently got easy but powerful plugin support (which I intend to explore soon), and is supposed to be one of the easier blogs to skin — again, something I intend to explore soon.

With some help from Laura in the Mango support forums, I was able to work through some quirky import issues (pages that belong to a category aren't supported in Mango, but apparently I had them in WP — this was throwing an error during import, should be fixed in an upcoming release, I'm sure) and got all of my old posts and comments imported. I managed to remember what my FeedBurner password was, so I even managed to pull off the switch without upsetting continuity in aggregators like ColdFusionBloggers, Feed Squirrel and AXNA. Although I have to apologize if it ends up causing doubles of anything.

Lastly, I also setup request forwarding from my previous host (on another of my domains still temporarily hosted there) to my new host and domain, pretty much just like Ray did when he moved to ColdFusionJedi.com. Since my old host didn't support SES urls, I had to use the ID from the url to lookup the post title and forward the url to this domain.

So how do you like the new domain? Eh?