change the host (transfer Forum)

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dhan

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Please I need a solution
I hosted my forum at 1stfreehosing.com my forum worked correctly till today.
But before half an hour my site doesnot open. I have a .co.cc domain too when browse my forum from the link tha 1stfreehosting gave me it says server not found. So, I want to host my forum at another hosting site. So, please help me how to transfer my forum from one host to another. My version is 3.6.8.
 
If you're running a nulled board, make sure you haven't gotten any messages that your host may have sent you about it. As far as I know, 1stfreehosting doesn't allow nulled.

Also, if you're hosting vB, make sure you actually get a decent host since a lot of the free ones won't scale.
 
Please tell me the process how to change my host now. I have made my databe beckup and I can access to my file manager. Please tell me the process.
 
Does your new host have:

cPanel
SSH Access (If not, request for one temporarily)

Basically, zip your forum directory, upload it, unzip via cPanel's Extract feature or via SSH

For the database, it may get a bit trickier. phpMyAdmin is built with the feature to detect when the server will time out, the problem with this is that it's extremely inefficient and doesn't even work half of the time. There's 2 way around this, if you have SSH Access, everything becomes tenfolds easier.

In Putty, or whatever shell you're using, FTP into your old host's ip, use your username and password, and "get" the backup SQL file.

Afterwards, make sure you already made the database that you want to use for the forum (say, db_forum)

Type exit on the ftp and then type

mysql -uUserName -pPassword db_forum < /directory/of/backupFile.sql

for example:

mysql -uroot -padmin db_forum < /home/website/forumBackup.sql

If you don't have shell access, go into phpMyAdmin, click on your db, import, select the backup sql, and pray to god that phpmyadmin won't time out on you
 
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