Today I left this 5-star Google review about my experience with Glorywebs, a tech firm based in India with a presence in the United States.
After Typepad, my blogging service, announced that it was shutting down on September 30, 2025, I contacted Glorywebs for help in migrating my three blogs with 8,400 posts and 12,000 photos into the WordPress platform. In a bit more than a week Glorywebs provided me with three well-functioning WordPress blogs that have all of my exported Typepad content. The Glorywebs team was a pleasure to work with. Responsive, knowledgeable, easy to communicate with. And they did this work at a very reasonable cost. I highly recommend them.
I tried to keep the Google review as short as possible, because what I said was longer than the typical length of other Google reviews I’d submitted. But I could have used many more words to sing the praises of Glorywebs, since they were responsible for the “ecstasy” part of a blog post I wrote on September 2, The agony and the ecstasy of Typepad, my blogging service, shutting down.
The ecstasy I’m beginning to feel comes from the fact that I’m confident that before too long I’ll be writing away on WordPress, a blogging service that is to Typepad as a rotary dial phone is to an iPhone. Hugely more modern and capable.
This morning I signed up on Bluehost, where my new WordPress blogs will be hosted. The Indian tech company, Glorywebs, that is handling the migration of my Typepad posts also is setting up three WordPress blogs. I’ve chosen the theme for the blogs, which looks way cool. I’ve salivated over all the capabilities that Bluehost offers and Typepad lacked.
When I wrote “before too long,” I was hoping that Glorywebs would finish their work before the final shutdown of Typepad at the end of September. I never thought, except perhaps in my wildest dream (which I can’t remember) that by September 10, a bit over a week after I signed an agreement with Glorywebs to do the migration work, I’d have three WordPress blogs up and running with all of my posts, photos, comments, and other files migrated from Typepad.
Yet, behold, there they are: this HinesSight blog, Church of the Churchless, and Salem Political Snark. All I’ve had to do, basically, was copy into WordPress a few posts that I’d written on Typepad after Glorywebs had downloaded my Typepad files, and make some edits to several pages that either had outdated links or needed changes that I’d never got around to.
What impressed me about Glorywebs, aside from their technical competence, was how well they kept me informed every step along the way, including restating my sometimes confusing messages to them in a crisp, clear manner that laid out exactly what they were going to do. Yes, it was a little bit of an inconvenience to be exchanging texts and emails with Glorywebs near midnight here in Oregon, which was about noon in India.
But this was no big deal, though a few times I went to bed a bit later than I usually do — a small price to pay to have the migration of my blogs from Typepad to WordPress handled so well and so quickly — at a very reasonable cost.
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