The long awaited migration of SH-B clients to the Grid Iron Platform (GIP) will begin shortly. Starting with about 30 clients, the migration will then expand to include the majority of SH-B clients over the coming weeks. Table 1 below shows the migration plan mapping of old SH-B plans to the new GIP plans. There are some important differences between the old and new plans that clients will need to know about. The major differences are outlined in Table 2.
Summary of major benefits of migrating to GIP:
Migration Path:
Customers will be migrated according to the following table.
Table 1
SH Platform | Migration Path |
Blog Plan (Unix) | GridLITE |
Starter Plan | GridLITE |
Universal Plan (Unix) | GridPRO |
Infinity Plan (Unix) | GridMAX |
Small Business Plan | GridMAX |
Detailed feature list comparison
The following table lists the major feature differences for the majority of the plans to be migrated. Across the board customer will be getting more bandwidth, disk space, e-mail accounts, and databases. This should be an easy up sell, especially when combined with fact they are moving to an advanced, scalable and redundant platform.
Table 2
Blog Plan | GridLITE | Universal Plan |
GridPRO | Infinity Plan | GridMAX | |
Core Features | ||||||
Monthly Traffic | 20 GB | Unlimited | 750 GB | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Disk Space | 500 MB | 20 GB | 50 GB | 200 GB | 200 GB | Unlimited |
File Manager | x | x | x | x | x | |
Full FTP | x | x | x | x | x |
x |
Secondary FTP | $ | 20 Free | $ |
50 free |
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Daily Back-up | x | x | x | x | x | x |
Dedicated IP |
x | x | x | x | x | x |
Domains Allowed | 1 | 11 | 11 | 50 | 26 | Unlimited |
24x365 Live Support | x | x | x | x | x | x |
30 Day Guarantee | x | x | x | x | x | x |
3rd Party Software | ||||||
Web Statistics | x | x | x | x | x | x |
Google Sitemaps | x | x | x | x | x | x |
E-mail Features | ||||||
POP3/IMAP Mailboxes | 5 | 1000 (1 GB) | 2500 (1 GB) | 2000 (2 GB) | 3500 (2 GB) | 4000 (4 GB) |
Anti-Virus/Spam Protection |
x | x | x | x | x | x |
Email Forwarding | x | x | x | x | x | x |
Mailing List |
x | x | x | x | x | x |
Dsitribution List | x | x | x | x | x | |
Auto Reply | x | x | x | x | x | x |
Data Center & Network | ||||||
100% network uptime guarantee |
x | x | x | x | x | |
99.9% server uptime guarantee |
x | x | x | |||
Language Support | ||||||
PHP 5 | x | x | x | x | x | x |
MySQL 5 Database | 20 MB | 5x100 MB | 100 MB | 25x250 MB | 300 MB | Unlimited x 250 MB |
Perl 5 | x | x | x | x | x | |
Python | x | x | x | x | x | |
One-Click Install Applications | ||||||
Joomla! | x | x | x | |||
phpBB | x | x | x | |||
Drupal | x | x | x | |||
Wordpress | x | x | x | x | x | |
Zen Cart | x | x | x | x | x | |
Website Promotion | ||||||
Google Search Marketing $25 Credit |
x | x | x | x | x | |
Yahoo Sponsored Search $25 Credit |
x | x | x | x | x | x |
Ratepoint One Year Membership ($149.95 value) |
x | x | x | x | x | x |
Affiliate/Reseller Program Access |
x | x | x | x | x | |
Miva Advertising Credit | x | x | x | x | x |