Guest Lou Sander Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 I have two sites right now, running on another host (iPowerweb). Based on recommendations of others, I want to try TCH. (iPowerweb has nothing like these forums.) The first site is semi-dormant, but I plan to use it much more in 2007. It renews in December. The second one is pretty active and renews in February or March. I want to move the first site to TCH, and I've got until December to do so. If all goes well, I'll move the second site later. (The first site is plain vanilla. The second one includes some PHP scripts, PHPbb, a spam-prone guestbook, etc.) I'm a computer person and programmer, but I don't know much about hosting, etc., and I don't necessarily want to learn too much about it. My sites are done with CUTE SiteBuilder, which automatically uploads the sites. I need some specific instructions on how to migrate the first site. Can somebody help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Welcome to the forum, Lou. First of all you would need to purchase the hosting, then point your domain to the TCH servers mentioned in the welcome email. If your current host uses cpanel you can ask the techs here to try to do a cpanel to cpanel transfer. Otherwise you would need to do a backup of your site and restore it here I believe (thinking especially about the forum, guestbook and other non CSB files here). Since you use CSB it should not be a problem to publish the CSB files to a TCH server. I personally use CSB from time to time and have never had any problems using it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Welcome to the forums Lou There are many CSB users here. And as you see an active forum for customers to talk and help each other. If you need any help, please ask. If you are using the Advanced Guestbook, you may want to look at Lazarus Guestbook, http://carbonize.co.uk/Lazarus/ a rewrite of Advanced Guestbook by one of our family members. Its easy to upgrade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou Sander Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 I've dealt with Carbonize on Advanced Guestbook matters, and found him to be very helpful. We get daily spam on our Advanced Guestbook. Is Lazarus resistant to this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou Sander Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 When I move the first site over to TCH, what do I need to do about renewing the domain name? I don't want it to expire without my knowledge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Welcome to the forums Lou You can either transfer your domain name to Total Choice which would renew the domain for an additional year or you can go to where you purchased the domain originally and renew it there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Lazarus Guestbook can be moderated and or use a bot test I moderate mine and spam attempts dropped down to almost none. There is an installer that will also upgrade you to Lazarus Guestbook. If you need help checkout his forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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