Upgrading to Qufoto's newest services
This walkthrough is for users who signed up before May 10, 2008
In mid-may 2008, we pushed a significant upgrade to our system. It offers a new and improved user update area, faster image loading times for your website, and greater stability all around. Visitors still see your website the way it always was, but everything under the hood has been improved.
The only downside to this system is that because it exists in a different location on newer hardware, using it requires your domain name to point to a new location. That is, the nameservers associated with your domain need to be updated.
For a good number of Qufoto users, we can handle the change for you and move you over to the new system ourselves because your domain is registered through us. But for many more users who use domains they have registered themselves, a little configuration will be necessary.
Essentially, all that needs to be done is the updating of the nameservers associated with your domain:
| Old nameservers | New nameservers |
|
ns8.hostingrails.com ns1.hostingrails.com ns2.hostingrails.com |
ns1.qufoto.com ns2.qufoto.com |
After your nameservers are updated, they should begin pointing to your data at our new location in about half a day. The data that exists on the new location, however, is a copy of the state of things as they were on the old system from late April. If you have been updating your site since then, the images and information once you switch will be outdated. This can be remedied in one of three ways:
- Make the switch and then make the updates on your own
- Shoot us an email and ask us to update your information for you, either before or after you make the switch
- Log in to qufoto.com/update and update your information, then redirect your domain.
If you have any email addresses, please let us know. We can both port it over and upgrade you to very nice, very easy to use webmail at the same time.
This is the only time an upgrade will ever have to happen this way. We are still young and growing, and this is an important one time switch that is better to have happen early rather than later.
Eventually (a date has not been set), the current/old system will be deprecated, so all users will have to make the switch at some point.
The short and sweet:
Update the nameservers associated with your domain name to these nameservers listed above. After a short amount of time (usually around a half a day), your domain will begin pointing to your account at our newer service. Some (or lots) of your data might be entirely out of date. If it is, you can either update it yourself or ask us to do it. If you have any email addresses based on the domain, let us know.
