Ocean West Posted November 26 Posted November 26 What would be involved in moving my site to IPS cloud hosing for a month or so while I migrate my server off CentOS?
Solution Randy Calvert Posted November 26 Solution Posted November 26 (edited) To be honest, it's not worth it for a month or so. It's a very manual process on both ends and I believe if you are not planning to host for a year, the import fee is around $500. The import was free when I moved my site as I signed up for a year. Essentially you would agree on a date with the staff to turn your current site offline and provide a full copy of your site files along with an export of your database. (This is done so you don't lose content from when you export and when your site is actually moved.) You would upload everything to a space provided by IPS. A member of the staff would import everything and make it available on a temporary URL. Once you are happy, you would confirm with IPS and point your DNS to them. When I did it, I turned my site off at midnight eastern and exported everything. Marc had everything imported for testing by 7am and I was done testing by 7:30. By 8:00, DNS pointing was complete and the site was live. To leave would be a similar process... you would need to turn your board offline. Afterwards, a member of the staff would then export a copy of your database. You would need an active self-hosted license to receive the board files, otherwise you would get just the database and the uploads/applications folder (everything but the codebase). Edited November 26 by Randy Calvert
Ocean West Posted November 26 Author Posted November 26 thank you @Randy Calvert that's what is suspected
Marc Posted November 26 Posted November 26 Please use the contact form a the bottom of the page, and select sales. If you ask any questions you have on this in that area, we can get you what you need 🙂
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