Changing your CNAME

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Hi Wayne, thank you for the reply

So I'm guessing my mistake on thinking that ns31.domaincontrol.com ( NS ) is from my current hosting company, as I just googled it and it all shows it belongs...

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Thanks Mark

I think my only mistake I made was not taking a free sub-domain through VB ( like Forum.mydomain.com ) that way i could point it to my domain as well.

Anyway, when...

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having some problems with this as I'm not sure I understand fully how to do this.

So I read the thread Managing your CNAME Record

I fall under my domain is registered through GoDaddy,...

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So something really weird just happened.

I went to my other laptop which has my email account that is on file with VB so I could send an email from there.
Went to my VB dashboard and...

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Thank you again Mark, will do this now...

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Hi Mark,

Thank you for the reply.
But when I put my www.domain.com I get this message, is invalid or has been used already. Please choose another domain name.
when i placed...

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So I'm guessing that I need to put " Forum " in front of my url/ domain ??

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Hi, So I'm trying to change over my hosting from another company to VB Cloud

I want to use my current forum/Domain

So I typed in my Domain/url and I receive the following notice...

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Thank you Wayne

I thought about it and since i was going to move to Cloud in the next 10 days, I will make the move at some point tonight instead
I'm sure there will be a timeframe...

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Thanks Mark

My only problem is i have no clue how to do this.
I'm suppose to move the site over to VB cloud, maybe their support can do it ?...

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vBulletin 5.3.2

Long story short I was using a hosting company and after thinking about how much they charge for a new site , I wanted to change over to Vbulletin Cloud.
I believe...

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Hi Wayne,

Is this good for VB5 connect as well ??...

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Ok, I think I have it anyway. The only think I didn't do was closed the forum because it's not really active at this time. ( nobody posting )
because I haven't even tried to promote the site at...

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I'm guessing that it's the MySQL Database Backup, since the file name is Sportsg_forum...

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Wayne I believe one of the 3 files I downloaded or Exported is the database.

But now Under the Back up button ( Not back up wizard ) I have these Options, Which one do I download ??
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and the first export is a SQL file...

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So after downloading the above, the file is a tar.gz

Good ??...

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In my CPanel I have options under Databases
besides phpmyadmin, I have MySQL databases, MySQL database wizard and remote MySQL
But none of the other options have a way to Export to a folder...

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ok, I just checked to see when it was last backed up, it was yesterday 6/5
I went to phpMyAdmin and exported my VB forum to my computer in a folder using notepadX, it's only 32.885KB
So this...

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Hi Wayne, it's the pain in the butt guy with a lot of questions again

instead of starting a New thread I figured I would ask some questions about migration here.

Now I understand...