SH-B to GIP Migration – Products & Services Details

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:

• Much more stable and reliable platform
• Huge performance improvements
• Much more scalability and redundancy
• Unlimited (unmetered) monthly traffic allowance
• More POP3/IMAP accounts
• More and larger sized MySQL databases and space
• Multiple one-click install applications, such as:
  • PHPBB
  • Joomla!
  • Drupal
  • WordPress
  • Zen Cart

Migration Path:

Customers will be migrated according to the following table.

Table 1

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