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Transfer a shared web hosting to a Cloud Server
This guide explains how to migrate a shared web hosting to a Cloud Server by retrieving all its data, websites, databases, etc.
Preamble
- If you already have a **Serveur Cloud**, go straight to step 2 of this guide.
- To migrate a web hosting from one Server Cloud to another Server Cloud, refer to this other guide.
- To migrate a web hosting from a Server Cloud to a shared web hosting, refer to this other guide; note that this is a manual operation.
1. Order a Cloud Server
For this:
- Click here to access the management of Cloud Servers on the Infomaniak Manager (need help?).
- Click on Order, choose a Managed Cloud Server and follow the assistant to complete the order:
2. Migrate the hosting to the Cloud Server
Once the Cloud Server is up and running:
- Click here to access the management of your product on the Infomaniak Manager (need help?).
- Click on the action menu ⋮ located to the right of the relevant item.
- Click on Change Offer:
- Select the free transfer offer.
- Select the Serveur Cloud to which to migrate your hosting:
- Click on the Next button at the bottom of the page and complete the procedure entirely.
- Please wait during the hosting migration, a service interruption will be felt during the process.
- Note:
- The names of the databases and database users are retained.
- FTP accounts are retained with the same names, but the host server changes to an address of type
xxxx.ftp.infomaniak.com
. - The IP addresses of the sites will change except for dedicated IPs.
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