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I may give them a try. I’m gone a few days and will give it a go when I get back. I’ll check back here beforehand. Thanks.

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MDD told me Sunday that current shared hosting customers won’t be moved to cloud hosting unless they request to move.

Just was looking over WeatherDisplay Live. Is this what some have chosen over web hosting? Something I might want to consider?

It’s been running for a week now with no problems.

Weather Display Live uses Flash, which is obsolete, for display in a browser. Support for Flash ends 2020, afaik, but lots of people still use it on their web pages!

Rather than create a new topic I thought it best to reply to this old one of mine.
My GoDaddy hosting is up for renewal and it’s almost three times the cost of when I originally opened it 2 years ago. They won’t seem to budge in price either. Any other suggestions that are a lot less than $300 for 2 years? How would I transfer over all my data? I believe I’d have to create a backup from GoDaddy first?

I am using Hostgator for my domain server. It is up for renewal next month. My domain costs $17.99/yr, and an additional $14.95/yr. for domain protection. They will also help you to transfer your existing domain name over to them. I have not had any trouble using this Company.
You can make a backup of your existing site by using FileZilla or something similar. Just download your site files to your computer. Then after selecting your new host and getting set up, you can upload it. If I recall correctly, it takes anywhere from 25 to 72 hours to transfer a domain from one host to another, so make sure you set up your new site BEFORE the old one expires.

Disclaimer: I am FAR from an expert, but I think this is how it works.

Thank you. I will get on that right away. I have 5 days left with my host.

I STRONGLY recommend that you maintain your Domain Registration at a separate company then your Host Provider.

That way if something happens to your host you can quickly get a new host and point your domain to the new host.

Also over the years I have seen some Host providers hold domain registration hostage if you try to move away from them.

1: Always register your Domain directly with a Domain Registrar, ie… GoDaddy, Register.com, Network Solutions…
2: Keep your Registration separate from your Host provider

My inflation adjusted 2 cents… FWIW :wink:

-Bob

Thanks for that very pertinent advice.

I just created a new web host account with Hostpapa.
For WeatherDisplay, is there any need to restore my backup from GoDaddy or do I just tweak some settings in WD?
Hostpapa gave me their name servers to have GoDaddy point my domain to. Should I first restore a backup or take care of getting my domain set?

So, I’ve uploaded my GoDaddy backup to Hostpapa but have not yet extracted it. I also changed the nameservers of my domain over to Hostpapa, but that might not take effect right away. What settings do I need to change in WeatherDisplay?

You will need to go into Control Panel and select the Connections tab and change FP Host/Server to the new provider along with your new username and password - see attached

TrevP


Ok on that. I’m still waiting for my domain to propagate on the new Nameservers.
I’ve attached the windows of both File Managers…on GoDaddy (my old site) and Hostpapa (my new site). I would think that there would be more files on GoDaddy but it’s almost identical to my new site on Hostpapa. Why exactly would I need to extract my backup file that I uploaded to Hostpapa? Also, since pointing my nameservers to Hostpapa, my site is no longer accessible (goosebayweather.com). Should I wait till the domain propagates itself before switching the settings in the Connections tab?


I would copy the public_html for sure

Copied over. Getting a 403 Forbidden at present. Might take some time since I changed nameservers.

Your domain is resolving to 69.90.160.95 for me which is hostpapa.com and showing a 403 forbidden which I would not expect if you have an index file uploaded?

-Bob

More specifically, what index file?

Your main web page, the one people see when they first access your site is normally named index.html or index.htm or index.php and should be in your public html directory.

-Bob