It looks like I may have to move a registered address. Right now it just ends with .com If I wanted to move to CoffeeCup's S Drive, are all names limited to having .coffeecup.com at the end?

Part of the site is up and running now, but it's limited to my free S Drive account that I got to try it out. It uses a totally different name, so if I move the site I need to be able to keep the same name and web address, or have it re-directed some way.

I would appreciate all suggestions.

DS

What parts of the site are limited to S-Drive? Any Stream you have you can iframe into a page to show on your own server, same with Photo Gallery and Forms. Anything else can be done on your own server if you're looking to keep the same hosting area as you were using before.

I don't know what you are saying. I have no idea even what an iframe is, or the stream, etc.

I'm asking if I move my hosting from GoDaddy to CoffeeCup will the name of the site have to have the name "coffeecup" in it. And what would the hosting fee be per year if it included a basic search optimization feature? And does Coffeecup have a backup system in case something crashes, like two of my sites did recently at GoDaddy, so you could retrieve my information and restore the website in the event of a crash. GoDaddy lost all my files, folders, and the whole nine yards. I'd like to move my web sites to a hosting service that has some type of backup so I won't have to go through this again.
Thanks.
Don

On S-Drive, you have a *.coffeecup.com address. Think of it as your temporary URL. When you move (or point) your custom domain over to us, that is the domain that is used instead.

We do create backups on our system but on for those on a paid plan. However with Visual Site Designer, the VNU file is not uploaded so if you lost your website, we could get you the HTML Files, but the VNU file would still be missing so you would have to create your website over from scratch again.

Thanks Scott. Maybe it's not called the S Drive. That's all I have and use right now, and I did it to be able to test my web sites.

I'm referring to a paid site. Also, if I'm going to use CoffeeCup, then I can't think of why it would really matter because all any web hosting site can do is save and backup my files. But if a site crashes and has to be reconstructed it's going to have to be done through CoffeeCup VSD anyway.

Would it be easier for me to call you so we can discuss this and see what we need to do? I think I may just register two new site names and leave the others at GoDaddy. Do you register domains too?

I'm still totally mystified why two sites crashed at GoDaddy and all the files to rebuild them disappeared also. I want to do everything I can to avoid that in the future.

Thanks again.
Don

You can certainly contact us to go over your S-Drive options. You can reach Suzanne at 678-495-3480 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm EST.

Don,

Could you say more about those two "crashed" sites at GoDaddy? Exactly what does the prospective visitor to such a "crashed" site see? Can you explain what is happening at the host? For example, does "crashed" perhaps mean that GoDaddy lost your set of WYSIWYG site files / resources? Or does it perhaps mean that GoDaddy changed / updated something upon which your site depends (such as PHP version), and so the site no longer works properly?

I would like to understand, since GoDaddy is legendary for doing non-standard, surprising things (to say the least).

BTW, Web tools and hosting service are distinct concepts. You can, with assurance, use CoffeeCup's Web design tools to produce pages usable on any hosting service, GoDaddy included. IMHO, people get into trouble when they buy into a blurring of the two concepts, since that gives the hosting company (e.g., GoDaddy) the opening to lock them into non-standard, proprietary and ultimately limiting site-creation tools.

And you need not make a potentially expensive, difficult to change commitment to a particular hosting company while you are in the design & play-around phase of site creation. Check out WampServer (http://www.wampserver.com/en/), XAMPP (https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html) and (if you like Linux) Ubuntu's lampserver^ bundle (http://setupguides.blogspot.com/2013/04/install-lamp-in-ubuntu-1304.html). These no-cost, open-source tools let you set up a hosting service visible only to your local development environment. You can try out new ideas before exposing them publicly. In so doing, you automatically maintain at least one local backup copy of your site's files, which will save your bacon from time to time, I can tell you.