I used a Developer Sandbox that was created on developer.salesforce.com. I've been building on it for a while and recently purchased my own Salesforce instance. I was miffed when I realized the Developer Sandbox did not have a Change Set option in Setup. I assumed I would be able to connect the two and deploy one to the other or there would be a way to create my Production org off of the Developer org I've been building on. However, I have not found anything online.
Has anyone encountered this? Does anyone have any ideas on a solution?
Force.com IDE
orANT migration tool
orWorkbench
for deploying meta data between unconnected orgs.