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• Jay • Posted June 19, 2011 Posted June 19, 2011 I've seen some people asking about the ability to transfer their demo forum over to their purchased license or hosting account, and thought it might be a good idea for IPS to offer this value added service along with some notification to let people know that they can save any changes they make to the demo to save time after they make their purchase. Such a tool would be useful for promoting product purchase by letting prospective customers know they're not just wasting time with a temporary installation, that they can in fact make a solid start on their own board using the demo install offered by IPS.
Nevo Posted June 19, 2011 Posted June 19, 2011 Backups are easy, theres isn't a need for them to offer a service. PHYMYADMIN Database Backup, FTP Public_HTML Backup. Download both of those and you are good to go! Of course, if you have cPanel, then you can just use that to backup all your entire data including stats, IPB, and your database. Wouldn't that create alot of extra work for them? as far as i know, the demo just gets deleted and they move on, but now they have to backup that demo... just seems like a lot of extra work. If you tried the demo and you are buying the product, you should want to redo all your settings because you were playing around with it and now you are serious.
• Jay • Posted June 19, 2011 Author Posted June 19, 2011 Backups are easy, theres isn't a need for them to offer a service. PHYMYADMIN Database Backup, FTP Public_HTML Backup. Download both of those and you are good to go! Of course, if you have cPanel, then you can just use that to backup all your entire data including stats, IPB, and your database. Wouldn't that create alot of extra work for them? as far as i know, the demo just gets deleted and they move on, but now they have to backup that demo... just seems like a lot of extra work. If you tried the demo and you are buying the product, you should want to redo all your settings because you were playing around with it and now you are serious. It wouldn't be any extra work at all outside of the initial coding. I'm referring to a fully automated tool that prospective customers can use to backup the board on their own, simplifying building their own forums after they purchase their license or hosting.
Francismori7_2 Posted June 20, 2011 Posted June 20, 2011 True, the first time I tried the demo, I made all the categories and membergroups I'd needed, and yet I had to restart when I purchased my license. :(
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