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In April 2009 we launched our Cloud Hosting featuring several new hosting plans that include more disk space, bandwidth and better email at a lower price. Here is more information on our cloud hosting service and the advantages it offers over our standard web hosting services.
If you are still on our old standard hosting system, please migrate to our cloud hosting service as soon as possible. Here are the instructions on how to migrate to cloud hosting. All information related to our cloud hosting services can be found over on our new website laughingsquid.us.
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How To Move A Domain To Cloud Hosting
Our cloud hosting service is a completely separate system from our standard hosting and features new hosting plans that come with more disk space and bandwidth at a lower price. Here is more information on our cloud hosting service and the advantages it offers.
We currently do not have any way to automatically move domains into the cloud, so if you are interesting in moving over, you would need to sign-up for cloud hosting, transfer your files and setup your email accounts, update your domain record’s name servers and then cancel your hosting on the old server. Here’s the four-step process:
- Sign up for cloud hosting using our Cloud Hosting Order Form.
- Transfer your website’s files via FTP and setup your email accounts from your standard hosting plan on your new cloud account. If you need to migrate a database to the cloud, here’s how to do it using phpMyAdmin.
- Change your domain record with your registrar after you’ve moved your website’s data to the cloud. Please note that the domain record change may take 24-48 hours to propagate completely.
- AFTER you have completed the first three steps, cancel hosting for your old domain using our Web Hosting Cancellation Form.
NOTE: Please note that your standard hosting plan will continue to be billed to the credit card on file until the plan is canceled.
Once your cloud hosting order has been processed, you will be given a credit for one month of free hosting on our cloud service in order to give you time to complete your move. If you have any questions regarding this process, please contact us.