Shared to Dedicated

[bfdexp]

As I move up in service levels of shared reseller plans, I understand I will eventually hit the end and need to moved to a dedicated server. So in anticipation of this, I have some questions...

1.) How much more difficult is it have a dedicated server? Is their a lot more responsibility than using a shared hosting plan.
2.) How seamless is the transfer of data from the shared account to the dedicated server? What are the usual cost?

Thanks, J

[quietFinn]

When your forum account gets activated you will see the "Dedicated Support" forum, there you will probably find answers to most of your questions

2.) How seamless is the transfer of data from the shared account to the dedicated server? What are the usual cost?

It does not cost anything.
You will find more info about the transfer in the dedicated support forum.

We can move all the sites over for you from a shared or reseller account.

Please be advised we do not backup dedicated servers. We highly recommend you order a secondary hard drive where your sites will be stored on a different drive , daily, weekly , monthly or how often you like. In the event you lose data you can just retrieve the backup from the secondary drive. You may see the extra drive cost details and other dedicated addons at the bottom of http://support.hostgator.com/addons.php